The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

For nearly 20 years, the Lapidim Program has been nurturing Israel’s next generation of entrepreneurs, researchers, and technology leaders. Founded at the initiative of Prof. Oded Shmueli, the program has continued to grow and evolve. Today, it brings together a community of alumni who hold key positions in research, entrepreneurship, and industry. Last week, the Faculty hosted the Lapidim Alumni Conference 2026, bringing together alumni from all cohorts for an evening of …

Congratulations to Dr. Joachim Neu on joining the Technion Faculty of Computer Science. His research interests include distributed computing and distributed systems, applied cryptography, and communication and communication networks. Welcome to the Faculty, Joachim, and best of luck!

Prof. Kohavi was one of the Faculty’s longest-serving and most influential members. His research received widespread international recognition and focused on computational models, switching theory and finite-state machines (automata), as well as the development of testing and reliability methods for digital systems. Alongside his extensive scientific contributions, his physical and institutional legacy at the Technion will endure for many years to come. He devoted himself to leading …

Congratulations to Prof. Ido Guy on joining the Technion Faculty of Computer Science. His research interests include recommender systems and information retrieval, and in recent years, his work has focused on trustworthy artificial intelligence. Welcome to the Faculty, Ido, and best of luck!

An Israeli startup founded by Prof. Oded Shmueli, a faculty member at the Technion Faculty of Computer Science, Michael Leibovitz, a Faculty graduate with a Master’s degree, and Ben Luria has developed technology designed to remove biases from AI models without compromising their performance. An article published today in TheMarker highlights the work of Hirundo, which seeks to address one of the most complex issues in the field of artificial intelligence: political biases and …

Two Faculty graduates have been named to the list of the 25 Most Promising Startups of 2026: Mark Korman, Co-Founder and CTO of Conifers, which is developing a cybersecurity platform that uses AI agents to automate and accelerate the detection, investigation, and response to cyber threats. Gilad Levy, Founder of Manifold, which is developing an AI architecture that enables models to continue learning and incorporating new knowledge after training, without compromising the …

New research led by Prof. Dvir Aran of the Faculty, together with Dr. Junyang Lin and colleagues in Germany, offers a new way to understand response to immunotherapy. The researchers showed that early changes in the tumor microenvironment following treatment may predict its success: a shift toward a more active immune environment, particularly one enriched with B cells, was associated with a better response and longer survival. Using RNA sequencing data analysis and artificial …

Jordan Safer, a Ph.D. student, conducts research in AI-driven science under the supervision of Prof. Roy Kishony. His research focuses on building an autonomous system for testing biological hypotheses through robotics-based experiments. Congratulations, and best of luck with your research!

At the Faculty’s latest graduation ceremony, we celebrated the completion of a significant chapter for 387 students, who have now completed their studies and are setting out to take on their next challenge. Behind each and every one of them are countless hours of learning, projects, exams, teamwork, and quite a few moments of “Why isn’t this working?!” And now, it’s their time to take everything they’ve learned here and use it to build, explore, …

Liran Radl, a Faculty Graduate, Completes His Degree Today, Alongside His Father, Yuval. Today, at the Technion graduation ceremony, the two will take the stage together and receive their degrees. Liran and Yuval, we are proud of you and wish you both much success in the years ahead! Read the full article: https://www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/article/yokra14885483

Warm congratulations to our 67 graduates on completing their Master’s degrees in Computer Science! Photos from the ceremony at the link Master of Science Graduates in Computer Science - Summa Cum Laude Eden Florentz Itay Segev Yuval Shapira  Master of Science Graduates in Computer Science - Cum Laude Tomer Borreda Tomer Gewirtzman Besart Dollma Ivri Hikri Roi Yona Tal Neoran Noor Athamnah Liav Zafar Yaakov Sherma  Master of Science Graduates in …

Warm congratulations to 18 graduates of the Faculty of Computer Science on receiving their Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science: • Shunit Agmon supervised by Prof. Benny Kimelfeld and Dr. Kira Radinsky • Mohammad Agbarya supervised by Prof. Dan Tsafrir  • Michal Edelstein supervised by Prof. Mirela Ben-Chen • Guy Ohayon supervised by Prof. Michael Elad and Prof. Tomer Michaeli • Hadas Orgad supervised by Prof. Yonatan Belinkov  • …

Congratulations to our outstanding teaching assistants for the Winter Semester of the 2025/26 Academic Year. Their hard work and daily dedication play an important role in the continuous improvement of teaching at the Faculty. We are proud of you! Outstanding Teaching Assistants - Continued ExcellenceIdo Rafael - Theory of ComputationOmer Rappoport - Introduction to Software VerificationMoav Boaz - Computer Organization and ProgrammingRegev Avraham - Introduction to Systems …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims that we have reached the singularity, and Prof. Yaniv Romano agrees that there is evidence to support this view but he draws attention to a question that is not being discussed enough: Who will verify the machine? In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Prof. Romano warns of the “verification burden.” AI models can produce complex results within seconds, but verifying that those results are correct and not merely “hallucinations” …

Warm congratulations to Yoav Danieli, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Michael Kaminski, on receiving the prestigious Azrieli Fellowship, awarded in recognition of academic excellence and outstanding personal achievements. His research focuses on automata theory and formal languages, with an emphasis on developing models and methods for analyzing systems that process complex data, such as usernames, unique identifiers, passwords, coordinates, and …

A new study led by Prof. Alex Bronstein has been published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. The study presents an AI-based technology that improves AlphaFold3's ability to predict protein structures. Instead of predicting a single structure, the method enables the identification of a range of structural states of proteins — a step that could help advance our understanding of biological processes, disease research, and drug development. The study involved researchers from the …

Prof. Tomer Shlomi has received a grant for his research aimed at identifying vulnerabilities and new therapeutic targets for tumors of the gastrointestinal system. The research will combine artificial intelligence, metabolomics, and proteomics to screen thousands of drug-like molecules, identify compounds that target pathways essential to cancer cells, and elucidate their mechanisms of action. The most promising candidates will then be tested in models derived from …

Tabnine has been acquired by Tricentis, a leading American software testing company! Tabnine, co-founded by Prof. Eran Yahav and Dror Weiss, is considered one of the global pioneers in AI-powered code generation and deep learning for software development. The technology they developed enables AI agents to understand the organizational context and code architecture at a high level and perform autonomous end-to-end testing. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement - we are incredibly …

We are proud to share an innovative new project led by the research group of Prof. Assaf Schuster at the Faculty of Computer Science, in collaboration with the Ministry of National Security, Israel Aerospace Industries, the Israel Innovation Authority, and the Israel Fire and Rescue Commission. The project combines tactical drones and advanced algorithms to detect and locate fire hotspots in real time, with the goal of providing field teams with a fast and accurate …

A new index examining the “AI output” of universities ranks the Technion first in Israel, fourth in Europe, and 25th worldwide. The ranking reflects excellence in research, AI education and training, alumni entrepreneurship, and industry engagement. The report also notes that the Technion’s performance in AI entrepreneurship is comparable to that of Stanford and places it ahead of many leading universities in key sub-indicators. We are proud of our researchers, who …

Eden Saig conducts research in the field of learning systems, focusing on the interface between artificial intelligence systems and the content and economic environments in which they operate. He completed his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Nir Rosenfeld and is currently pursuing postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Congratulations, and best wishes for continued success!

The Faculty Programming Contest took place last week, with 14 teams competing to solve challenging problems in mathematics and computer science that required both efficient and creative solutions. The top-performing teams will be invited to represent the Technion and the Faculty of Computer Science at the ICPC/SWER, which will be held in Bologna, Lyon, and Barcelona. First Place: Nadav Israeli, Yehuda Yair Lester, Itay Mor Second Place: Yoav Alexander, Liz Gabriel, Daniel Yehoshua Third …

Warm congratulations to Guy Bar-Shalom, a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Computer Science, on receiving the VATAT Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Guy conducts research in the field of machine learning under the supervision of Prof. Ran El-Yaniv and Prof. Haggai Maron. His research focuses on applying deep learning methods to structured data, including graphs, neural network weight spaces, and activation spaces, with a particular emphasis on Large …

This week, the Faculty's annual projects fair took place, showcasing dozens of impressive projects developed by our students in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, robotics, IoT, cybersecurity, software engineering, and more. As part of the event, the Outstanding Project Competition, sponsored by Amdocs, was also held. We are pleased to congratulate this year's winners: Tapuz Project: System for Detection and Tracking of Aerial Targets - Ido Amit, Noam Snof, Yaara …

Research by Moshe Kimhi, a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Ehud Rivlin, presents a novel approach for multimodal AI models that combine image and text understanding. The proposed method, CARES, analyzes both the input image and the question being asked about it, then automatically selects the lowest image resolution that still enables the model to provide an answer with the same level of accuracy. This approach maintains high performance while reducing computational costs and …

Warm congratulations to Dr. Gilad Yehudai on joining the Technion Faculty of Computer Science. Dr. Yehudai's primary research interests are in the theory of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on Large Language Models (LLMs). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science and completed his postdoctoral research at New York University. Welcome to the faculty, Gilad, and best of luck in your new role!

Raviv Rachmiel, Co-Founder and CEO of Rio Security, discovered his passion for cybersecurity while studying Software Engineering at our faculty, where he was first introduced to the field of reverse engineering. Since then, he has led some of Israel's most sensitive and complex cyber incident response efforts during his service in the IDF's Center of Computing and Information Systems (Mamram/Matzov). He later co-founded Rio Security, a startup that helps organizations respond to ransomware …

Warm congratulations to Prof. Ron Rothblum on receiving the prestigious Test of Time Award at STOC 2026, one of the world's leading conferences in theoretical computer science. The award recognizes his paper, "Constant-round Interactive Proofs for Delegating Computation," co-authored with his brother, Prof. Guy Rothblum (Weizmann Institute of Science) and Prof. Omer Reingold (Stanford University). The Test of Time Award honors papers published at least a decade ago that have …

Warm congratulations to Guy Arbel, a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Computer Science, on receiving the Distinguished Paper Award at LICS 2026, one of the world's leading and most prestigious conferences in logic in computer science. Guy's paper, "A Complexity Bound for Determinisation of Min-Plus Weighted Automata," addresses the complexity of the determinisation problem for weighted automata, a fundamental computational model. The decidability of this problem remained open for more …

Lapidim is an excellence program designed to cultivate outstanding students with the potential to become leaders in both industry and research. The program provides a unique springboard into the worlds of high-tech and academia throughout students' undergraduate studies, offering direct exposure to leading entrepreneurs, world-class researchers, and an influential alumni network. Participants benefit from a supportive and challenging learning environment that includes a dedicated learning …

Warm congratulations to the 249 president's and dean's outstanding students for the spring semesters of 2026, who received certificates of excellence yesterday as part of the faculty's Outstanding Students Ceremony Your achievements are the result of a winning combination of talent, curiosity, perseverance, and uncompromising investment along the way. We are proud of you and your impressive achievements and wish you continued success on your academic and professional path! Photo: Nitzan …

New research by Prof. Yonatan Belinkov and PhD student Edo Dotan presents BetaDescribe - an innovative artificial intelligence system that translates protein sequences into natural language and provides a detailed description of their function. The system is able to infer the function of proteins even when they are not similar to proteins already known to science, and provides information about their activity, the biological processes in which they are involved, and their binding sites - …

Congratulations to our outstanding students, who won the Excellence in Research Award from KLA and the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion. The award was presented as part of a joint initiative between the faculty and KLA, which was born from a vision to foster academic excellence, encourage groundbreaking research, and create a long-term bridge between academia and the forefront of industry. Special thanks to Sasha Shelepov, Director of Software and Artificial Intelligence at KLA …

Warm congratulations to the outstanding lecturers of the winter semester 2026 Dr. Roee Engelberg - Technion Recognition for Exceptional Excellence in Teaching for the course Data Structures 1 Dr. Sarai Sheinvald - Technion Recognition for Exceptional Excellence in Teaching for the course Introduction to Set Theory and Automata for Computer Science Dr. Gabi Nakibly - Citation for Excellence in Teaching for Network Security We wish you many more years of excellence in teaching and …

What does the future of academic research look like in the GenAI era? At the event held this week, we addressed the question: How is artificial intelligence changing the way we produce knowledge? The event connected academia, industry, and innovation and presented how AI tools are transforming from auxiliary tools into active partners throughout the entire research life cycle - from literature review, through hypothesis formulation, to data analysis and insight generation. The main …

Congratulations to Rom Himelstein and Amit Levi, graduate students in the Faculty of Computer Science, supervised by Prof. Avi Mendelson and Dr. Brit Youngmann, on receiving an Honorable Mention in the Israeli National AI Safety Research Award. Their paper, "Silenced Biases: The Dark Side LLMs Learned to Refuse," was presented at AAAI 2026 in Singapore and was selected for an oral presentation from among tens of thousands of submissions. In their research, the team uncovered a …

The faculty's researchers have developed an innovative technology called Time to Move (TTM), which allows the creation and editing of realistic videos in an intuitive and simple way - by moving a mouse only, without the need for expensive computing infrastructure or training on millions of videos. The research, led by Dr. Or Litany together with Prof. Ron Kimmel and students Assaf Singer, Noam Rotstein and Amir Mann, was presented at the prestigious ICLR 2026 conference, one of the world's …

On Thursday, June 14, the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion officially kicked off its annual hackathon: 2026 CS Hack – Doing Good. The event opened with a lecture by retired Commissioner Roni Alsheikh, former Chief of the Israel Police. Following the lecture, approximately 140 determined students set out alongside an outstanding team of mentors - including engineers, emergency response professionals, and industry technologists - to tackle one of the most important and …

Last week, on June 2, the Technion hosted the Technovation conference, which discussed the state of Israeli high-tech and the intersections between innovation, venture capital, the economy, society, and the labor market. We were pleased to meet two of our excellent graduates on stage:Yevgeny Dibrov - co-founder of the cybersecurity giant Armis, who spoke about the company's success and the state of high-tech in Israel. Ali Ayoub - Vice President of Software Engineering at Nvidia, who …

Congratulations to Dr. Hadas Orgad, on winning the Blavatnik Prize for Outstanding Israeli PhD Students in Computer Science. The award committee, which included faculty members from the Technion, the Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University, was very impressed by the level of excellence of the research students and recent graduates who submitted their candidacies for the award, but Hadas's excellence was particularly outstanding and therefore she was selected as one of the four winners …

Research Day 2026 - Thanks to all presenters and congratulations to the winners First place: Yoav Danieli, a PhD student supervised by Prof. Michael Kaminski, presented his research: (No) Parikh’s Theorem for Infinite Alphabets Second place was shared between two:Bana Sadi, a Master’s student supervised by Dr. Nir Rosenfeld, presented her research Operators and Welfare-Optimal Classification with Accuracy Auctions Shadi Omari and Bashar Khoury, Master’s students …

Prof. Belinkov joins a small group of scientists who have excelled in their research, demonstrated original thinking, and demonstrated a commitment to public action and the advancement of science in Israeli society. Yonatan Belinkov's research deals with the mechanisms of action of artificial intelligence systems, groundbreaking research designed to direct artificial intelligence to beneficial behaviors and prevent it from taking harmful and dangerous steps. Great pride!

Dr. Hassan Abbasi, a graduate of the faculty, stars in Globes' list of promising young people.Abbasi completed his doctorate, worked at Google and Intel, and finally left the high-tech giants to establish the delivery app "HAAT", "the wallet of Arab society", which is already available in 50 cities and 3,000 restaurants. For the full article: https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001541254 

Registration for the 2026 CS Hackathon – Doing Good is now open!Thursday-Friday | June 11-12, 2026 The Faculty of Computer Science and the Student Council invite you to take part in the biggest and most significant event of the year. This year, the hackathon will focus on the worlds of emergencies and will deal with developing innovative solutions to improve decision-making and save lives. At a time when every second is critical – your development can make the …

In this expanded appointment, Johny will unite the company's chip and hardware engineering divisions under him for the first time - a strategic move that places him at the center of Apple's technological activities. Johny, who began his professional career here as a student, is considered the architect of the Apple Silicon revolution and one of the most influential figures in the global industry. We are proud to see the faculty's graduates leading the forefront of global …

Hava began her career at the Technion in 1982 and for over four decades, was a key partner in shaping the faculty's academic and administrative activities. With exceptional professionalism and endless dedication, Hava accompanied generations of students, faculty members, and teaching staff, and became an anchor of knowledge, experience, and support for them. Throughout her years of work, while the faculty grew and trained thousands of graduates, Hava maintained her unique human approach: …

Our alumni and faculty researchers top the list of young people changing the world:Dr. Kira Radinsky, Dr. Rana Shahout, Prof. Yonatan Belinkov and Assaf Rappaport - leading us towards a better future. Great pride! For the full article, click on the link

Karin Eibschitz-Segal, Co-CEO of Intel Israel and Faculty Alumni, leads Globes' List of Influential Women for 2026 again this year. She began her career at Intel as a software engineer, and over the years she has grown to become the most senior Israeli in the company - and one of the most prominent Israeli women in the Israeli high-tech industry. An inspiring story of excellence, perseverance and leadership We are very proud of her! For the full article, click on the link

Warm congratulations to Prof. Eitan Yaakobi on winning the Herschel Rich Prize for Research Innovation from the Technion for 2026. The prize was awarded for his work on Error-Correcting Codes, Algorithms, and Software Solutions for DNA-Based Data Storage. Warm congratulations to Associate Prof. Ori Rottenstreich on winning the Herschel Rich Prize for Research Innovation from the Technion for 2026. The prize was awarded for his work on Mitigating Impermanent Loss in Blockchain-based …

Warm congratulations to Prof. Hagit Attiya on her election as an EATCS Fellow for 2026 The title was awarded to Prof. Attiya for her achievements in creating research milestones in a variety of areas in the theory and design of distributed systems, and for her central role in shaping the scientific discourse in this field. The EATCS Fellows Program was established to honor researchers for their outstanding scientific contributions to theoretical computer science.Great honor for …

Warm congratulations to Prof. Yonata Belinkov on winning the Cooper Research Excellence Award for 2026. A great honor for Yonata and the faculty!

Dr. Gil Shamai and Prof. Ron Kimmel, from the Faculty's Geometric Image Processing Laboratory, have developed a model that can estimate the risk of breast cancer recurrence and the expected benefit from chemotherapy. The model is based on advanced artificial intelligence with clinical expertise. This is an innovative tool that may bring personalized medicine closer to the field, and offer patients a more accurate, faster, and more accessible solution. This is the first artificial …

Warm congratulations to Dan Kalifa, a doctoral student in the faculty, on winning the Rahamimoff Grant from the Israel-US Binational Foundation (BSF). Dan conducts his research under the supervision of Dr. Kira Radinsky, and focuses on developing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models for understanding proteins. The research has great potential to change the ways of drug discovery, disease diagnosis, and the development of high-precision biotechnological solutions. The grant …

Warm congratulations to Sujud Abu Atta on winning the VATAT scholarship for diverse populations and the socio-economic periphery. Sujud Abu Atta, a master's student, is a researcher in the field of recommender systems and human behavior under the supervision of Dr. Omri Ben-Eliezer and Dr. Nir Rosenfeld. Her research examines the relationship between users' psychological state and their behavioral patterns and involvement in recommender systems.

Dear students, You are invited to apply for the KLA Undergraduate Excellence Award - a new award that aims to encourage excellence in research for undergraduate students in computer science. For details and to apply, click on the link Deadline for applications: May 17, 2026. Good luck!

Warm congratulations to Prof. Tomer Shlomi, a faculty member in the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion, on a significant exit: U.S. diagnostics giant Guardant Health has acquired the startup MetaSight in a deal valued at $150 million. This marks a remarkable achievement for a technology developed at the Faculty. MetaSight, founded by Prof. Shlomi together with the aMoon fund, operates at the forefront of the bio-convergence field. The company has developed an innovative platform …

On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are proud to share the inspiring story of Hiba Malak, a software engineering student at the Taub Faculty of Computer Science. Hiba, a resident of Daliyat al-Karmel and the first in her family to reach the Technion, has gone through a path full of determination: from intensive grade improvement before admission, through coping with a challenging first semester, to an impressive academic rise that led her to the …

Warm congratulations to Aviad Mayles, a bachelor's degree graduate of the faculty (1998) on a huge exit: Apple acquires the Israeli startup q.ai for about $1.5 billion.This is Mayles' second exit from the technology giant: in 2013, the company acquired his previous startup, Primesense. The startup operates in secret mode and not much is known about its product. According to Apple, it develops innovative machine learning applications to transform audio and communication experiences, …

Congratulations to the outstanding practitioners in the spring of 2025, whose hard and daily work allows us to bring about continuous improvement in teaching at the faculty. Persistent Outstanding PractitionersBoaz Moav - Computer Organization and ProgrammingIdo Rafael - Computational TheoryOmer Rappoport - Introduction to Software VerificationRegev Avraham - Introduction to Systems ProgrammingSean Man - Numerical AlgorithmsShunit Agmon Persistent Outstanding Faculty PractitionersAmir …

Warm congratulations to Amit Vaisman and Bana Sadi for winning the VATAT Scholarship for a master's degree in artificial intelligence and data science for the academic year 2026. Amit Vaisman is a researcher in the field of generative models and image processing under the supervision of Prof. Michael Elad. His research focuses on algorithms for image and video compression using diffusion models. Bana Sadi is a researcher in the field of behavioral machine learning under the supervision of …

Warm congratulations to Dr. Daniella Bar-Lev for winning first place in the Feder Family Award for outstanding research in the field of communications. Daniella completed her three degrees at the faculty and is a graduate of the faculty's Lapidim program. Her research deals with DNA-based information storage systems under the supervision of Prof. Eitan Yaakobi and Prof. Tuvi Etzion. In her research, she focuses on advanced algorithms and coding methods for error correction, error …

After making the fourth largest exit in the history of the country, "Armis" founder Nadir Izrael talks about the path from yeshiva high school to the top - and the heavy prices he paid in his personal life: "People said: 'I wanted to be an entrepreneur - I saw you and gave up." And also: What made him give up on the IPO, will AI eliminate the juniors - and what does he think of his "image" in Eretz Nehederet? Israel Technion graduate Ran Enoch is the founder of TempraMed Technologies Ltd, …

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Prof. Yaniv Romano, member of the Young Israeli Academy and faculty member with a joint appointment in the Taub Faculty of Computer Science and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering: "My career began at the Technion. I dedicated most of my graduate studies to developing methods for reconstructing an image from a poor-quality measurement - image enlargement, sharpening, and more. I was privileged to work with Prof. Michael Elad, my doctoral supervisor, …

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