The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

Warm congratulations to Prof. Shachar Itzhaky and Dr. Hila Peleg on winning the 2025 Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence. The Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence is awarded to faculty members in the Faculty of Computer Science for exceptional excellence in research. Congratulations and keep up the excellent research!  

Congratulations to Bar Tzipori, Esti Bricker and Matanel Ohayon, undergraduate students, for winning the Outstanding Poster Award at the ISW conference held under the Systor 2025 conference, following their article published on their work supervised by Itai Dabran, Tom Sofer and Yaniv Hassidof. SafeStep is a compact wearable system designed to help people with visual impairments identify obstacles approaching their upper body (chest and head). The system detects obstacles that traditional …

The Chaim Weizmann Prize will be awarded to Prof. Ron Kimmel of the Technion. The prize will be awarded to him for his work in visual data processing and breakthroughs in medical diagnosis and cancer treatment. Prof. Ron Kimmel of the Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion has won the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality Prize in Exact Sciences in memory of Dr. Chaim Weizmann. The prize will be awarded to him for his groundbreaking work in the theoretical and practical study of methods …

Warm congratulations to the 36 graduates who completed their Master's degree in Computer Science:Eitan Bloch - summa cum laudeYair Davidson - summa cum laudeOr Keret - summa cum laudeTom Yaakov Azoulay -cum laudeAlmog David - cum laudeOri Mazor - cum laudeMeital Bojan Avital Boruchovski Akiva Michael BlockZachary BambergerDvir Ben ShabatYarin BarGuy Bar ShalomTomer GiladiDavid Valensi Omer Yizhaq Dganit HananiaSapir Tubul Michael Toker Sally Turutov Diana …

Warm congratulations to 13 faculty graduates for receiving their PhDs in Computer Science: Yonatan Elul under the advisement of Prof. Alex Bronstein, Prof. Assaf Schuster and Prof. Yael Yaniv Shaked Brody under the advisement of Prof. Eran Yahav, Dr. Uri Alon Daniella Bar-Lev under the advisement of Prof. Tuvi Etzion and Prof. Eitan Yaakobi Ben Galili under the advisement of Prof. Zohar Yakhini  Niv Giladi under the advisement of Prof. Daniel Soudry  Thomas Dages under the …

Warm Congratulations to Tomer Bitan on Winning the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the HPEC conference Tomer Bitan, an MSc student under the supervision of Dr. Gal Oren, on receiving the Outstanding Student Paper Award for: “UniPar: A Unified LLM-Based Framework for Parallel and Accelerated Code Translation in HPC.” This work is a university–industry collaboration spanning Israel and the U.S., advancing an LLM-driven approach to translate and adapt …

Meet the first AI unicorn in Israel! Decart, founded by Dr. Dean Leitersdorf, a graduate of the faculty, together with Moshe Shalev, has completed a capital raising round of 100 million at a valuation of 3.1 billion. This is the company's third round in 11 months, and brings the total investments in the company to 153 million dollars in less than two years. The company has two revenue streams. The first is the acceleration of GPU activity, which currently generates tens of millions of …

Shaked Adi, Dvir Elshich, and Adar Peleg, students at the faculty, will present a vulnerability they discovered in Google's protocol at the SecTor 2025 conference in Canada, an important international conference held as part of Black Hat.The vulnerability was discovered as part of a project the three conducted under the direction of Prof. Avi Mendelsohn, Rom Himmelstein, Amit Levy and Stav Cohen as part of the ATLAS AI research lab at the Taub Faculty of Computer Science. The three …

A love story that crosses faculties and continents - Dr. Naama Ben David and Dr. David Wajc, two new faculty members at the faculty, grew up in Belgium and Canada, met as young doctoral students at Carnegie Mellon in the USA and decided to return to Israel and raise a family and career in Haifa. For the full article, click on the link

Lumana, a company that develops AI-based video security solutions, has now raised $40 million in a round, adding to the $24 million it raised about a year ago. Lumana was founded by Sagi Ben-Moshe, a graduate of the faculty (2010), the company's chief scientist is Prof. Ron Kimmel from the faculty, and the company's chief technologist is Ofir Mola. The company uses artificial intelligence and visual language models to turn any camera into a real-time intelligent monitoring, detection, and …

Faculty graduates lead the list of unicorns in Israel - Assaf Rappaport founder of Wiz, Oren Kaniel founder of AppPlayer, Eilon Reshef founder of Gong, and Nadir Izrael and Yevgeny Dibrov founders of Armis. For the full article in Calcalist, click on the link

Prof. Eitan Yaakobi - in an interview with FrontYoung magazine.A huge amount of information in a tiny molecule: a new era in DNA information storage. For the full article, click on the link

Warm congratulations to Hadas Orgad on winning the VET scholarship for postdoctoral studies abroad for outstanding female scientists. Hadas will begin her postdoctoral studies at Harvard University as part of the Kempner Research Fellowship, starting next academic year.Hadas, a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Yonatan Belinkov, is a researcher in the field of artificial intelligence with an emphasis on natural language processing. Her research deals with the interpretability of …

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Omri Ben-Eliezer joined the faculty last year. His research develops algorithmic and theoretical foundations for strengthening modern human society, through mathematical modeling of complex social environments and analyzing aspects of efficiency, resilience, and social resilience. Congratulations and good luck!

310 graduates today joined the 10,000 faculty graduates - women and men who lead research and industry in Israel and around the world and create a spectacular, groundbreaking and innovative reality. The ceremony was addressed by Karin Eibschitz Segal, Corporate Vice President at Intel Worldwide, Co-CEO of Intel Israel and a graduate of the faculty: "Knowledge is power, but curiosity is the fuel that drives the world. As a graduate of the faculty, I know that the skills I acquired at the …

"Aim high. Don't build another small product because it's easy or convenient, and don't try to make another one of what's already on the market. Think about the biggest problem you can solve, the most significant impact you can make." Dr. Dean Leitersdorf, a three-time graduate of the faculty in record time, and co-founder and CEO of the startup Decart - aims to change the rules of the game and become a global player in the field of artificial intelligence. Take a few minutes to learn …

The 20th Faculty Programming Competition took place last week with the participation of 15 teams that tackled mathematics and computer science challenges that required efficient and creative solutions at the same time. The leading teams in the competition will be invited to represent the Technion and the faculty in the regional SWERC competition to be held at the end of November 2025 in several locations in Europe (Lisbon, Lyon, and Pisa). First place: Igor Ivanov, Uri Gabbay, Barry …

"When three people create something together that is greater than the sum of its parts – they not only win awards, but earn a partnership for life."This is how Prof. Danny Raz, Dean of the Faculty, concluded the award ceremony for the winners of the Outstanding Project Competition. The event was held in the presence of Haifa Deputy Mayor Yossi Shalom, who expressed a desire to deepen the important partnership between academia and the community in the city and region. Special thanks …

Twins Harel and Netanel Belay live together and study together at the Technion as part of the "Lapidim" excellence program and the Academic Reserve's Psagot program Harel and Netanel Belay are 20-year-old twins who study together at the faculty in two prestigious programs - the Lapidim excellence program and the Academic Reserve's Psagot program. "We knew we wanted to do a degree in computer science and specifically at the Technion, which is considered one of the leading institutions in …

On the occasion of the Technion Centennial, a time capsule was unsealed on campus, containing significant items that reflect the spirit of innovation, research, and learning that characterized the Technion in its first hundred years. At the faculty, we chose to preserve the names of all of the faculty's graduates using advanced technology - encoding and storing information in synthetic DNA, a tiny but very durable molecule that can preserve accurate information over time and in an extremely …

Ron Raphaeli, a master's student supervised by Prof. Michael Elad, presented the research SILO: Solving Inverse Problems with Latent Operators, which will be presented at the ICCV 2025 conference. Ron's research deals with image restoration from various corruptions, harnessing innovative tools from the Generative AI arena. The article is available at the link

Students and alumni are invited to play in the faculty's escape room | July How does it work?- Organize a group of participants (4-6 players in the game)- Register at this link- Meet at the time you have set at the Technion (in the Faculty of Computer Science - Taub Building, Lobby floor - piano room, near the elevators) Please note: Game duration: about an hour | Invitation for students and alumni | You can enter the Technion with a car. Independent parking | Please do not register from …

Congratulations to the outstanding practitioners in the winter semester of 2025, whose hard and daily work allows us to bring about continuous improvement in teaching at the faculty. We are proud of you!! Persistent faculty outstanding practitioners:• Shahaf Aricha - Introduction to Computers, Python• Sean Man - Numerical Algorithms• Edan Kinderman - Introduction to Machine Learning Persistent outstanding practitioners:• Shunit Agmon - Introduction to Set Theory …

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Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, Prof. Danny Raz, Discusses Key Issues in the World of Advanced Computing, While Reviewing the Innovations and Challenges Shaping the Field Today, in a Lecture He Delivered to the Board of Directors of the Technion Association in the United States Full article at ATS

On June 10, the Technion held a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Shillman Family Computer Science Building at the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science. The event took place as part of the Technion’s Board of Governors’ meeting and was hosted by Prof. Irad Yavneh, former dean of the faculty. Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan said: “The Taub Faculty of Computer Science is ranked among the world’s leading faculties in the fields of artificial …

Congratulations to Mayan Rivlin-Gilboa on receiving the Best Hot-topic Presentation Award at the New Trends in DNA-based Data Storage conference! Mayan is a graduate student in the field of DNA-based data storage, under the supervision of Prof. Zohar Yakhini. Her research, Sequence Determinants of CRISPR Off-Target Reaction, was conducted in collaboration with Prof. Zohar Yakhini, Guy Assa, Arya Das, and Prof. Mark Somoza. It focuses on large-scale mapping of off-target activity in the …

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Lapidim Tech Leadership Program | Leadership in Research The Lapidim program is designed to nurture outstanding students with potential for leadership in industry and research. The program provides an opportunity to lead and create connections with entrepreneurs and senior researchers in industry and academia, and also provides a constructive and challenging learning environment, including tuition waivers, a monthly living stipend, academic supervisor support, and a dedicated learning …

Prof. Danny Raz, Dean of the Faculty, at TheMarker and the Technion's Technovation 2025 Conference: "We are used to the idea that without sweat and blood, we don't progress, and that we have to stay up all night and work hard. In the world of AI, where you can ask for exercises and have them write them for you, it's even harder for those who don't work hard. Most don't succeed. Our job as educators is to make people understand that sweat saves blood, and effort brings good results." The …

Warm congratulations to Dr. Yonatan Belinkov on winning the 2025 Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research. Dr. Yonatan Belinkov joined the faculty in October 2020, after completing a PhD at MIT and postdoctoral work at Harvard and MIT. He develops methods for identifying and analyzing world knowledge in large language models.The applied goal of his research is to enable researchers and users to properly deal with unexpected behaviors that emerge in AI systems, including behaviors …

Dr. Yonatan Belinkov: "Why do we ask for a penguin and get a cat? We are trying to do brain surgery for AI." "If we don't understand how artificial intelligence systems work, we won't be able to control them later. This also allows us to correct the biases that exist in language models," said Dr. Yonatan Belinkov, a senior lecturer at the faculty, at TheMarker and Technion's Technovation 2025 Conference. Belinkov heads a research group that is trying to study and improve the way image …

The Israeli startup Deci, acquired by Nvidia, is accelerating the company's growth. The founders of Deci are Prof. Ran El-Yaniv, a faculty member, Dr. Yonatan Geifman, a doctoral graduate at the faculty, and Jonathan Eliel. Deci has developed technology to "shrink" creative artificial intelligence language models - which allows those models to be run using less computing power. Deci helps shrink the number of parameters and bits used for the operation of language models, so that in effect …

Dr. Dean Leitersdorf, founder of Decart, completed his three degrees at the faculty in less than six years, on his way to a doctorate in record time.The company, of which he serves as CEO and co-founder, has developed a platform that, in its estimation, speeds up the training and running processes of AI models by 10 times. Dr. Nissim Ofek, co-founder of Quantum Machines QM, graduated with a bachelor's degree from the faculty in 2001. Quantum Machines develops and operates control and …

These days, it is important for us at the faculty to highlight volunteer initiatives and to award a Social Excellence Award for extraordinary and inspiring work. Students from the Faculty of Computer Science of all degrees who have volunteered or initiated a project for the benefit of society and the community on or off campus are invited to apply. To nominate for the 2025 Social Excellence Award, click on the link

The Outstanding Project Competition will be held in conjunction with the Faculty of Computer Science's annual project fair on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, between 12:30-14:30. Amdocs has supported the competition for many years and will also be awarding the prizes this year.Projects submitted as part of the Faculty of Computer Science courses during or after the Spring 2024 semester (and that have not previously participated in the competition) are invited to submit nominations by June 18, …

Warm congratulations to Dr. Yaniv Romano on joining the Israeli Young Academy, which operates within the framework of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences. The Young Academy is designed to promote the status of young scientists in Israel and improve their connections with Israeli society, with decision-makers and with young researchers from around the world. Its members, prominent scientists in their fields, are selected based on academic excellence and public-social involvement. Dr. …

Moment of Truth140 Technion students worked for 24 hours on developments that would reduce the impact of fake news on our lives Fake news, "post-truth" and "alternative facts" – these were the topics of Doing Good - the annual hackathon of the Taub Faculty of Computer Science. The hackathon, which took place last weekend (May 8-9), was designed to develop technological solutions for real needs related to disinformation and misinformation. During a 24-hour programming marathon, 140 …

Research Day 2025 – Thanks to all presenters and congratulations to the winners First place: Omer Rappoport, PhD student supervised by Prof. Erna Grimberg and Dr. Yakir Vizel; presented his research: CHC Satisfiability Modulo Multiple Theories Second place was shared between two:* Ron Raphaeli, MSc student supervised by Prof. Michael Elad, presented his research: SILO: Solving Inverse Problems with Latent Operators* Zorik Gekhman, PhD student supervised by Prof. Roi Reichart, …

Maya Hocherman-Drimer, a student at the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science, is one of Israel’s top sport climbers. This summer, she will divide  her time between exams, the World Cup Series, and the World Championship For the full article on the Sports Channel

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A record number - 434 graduates received their Computer Science certificates at a ceremony held on April 8, 2025. The ceremony, which was planned to be held in September 2024 and was postponed due to the war, was also scheduled to be attended by the late Amit Hayut, a captain in the reserves who served in the Northern Nahal Brigade. Amit fell on October 26, 2024, in battle in southern Lebanon, shortly after graduating from the faculty. His parents were awarded a special certificate of …

Warm congratulations to the 444 students who are among the President's and Dean's Outstanding Students for the Spring and Fall Semesters of 2024. These days, it is important for us at the faculty to highlight volunteer initiatives and to award a social excellence award for extraordinary and inspiring work. Many students went out this year to help society and the state, led by reservists and regular soldiers who participated in combat for a long time, sometimes risking their lives on the …

Warm congratulations to the winners of the Faculty Programming Competition in the past two years who received certificates this week alongside the teams that represented us in the international programming competitions SWERC’23, SWERC’24, and EUC’25. In 2023, the team won 18th place out of 108 competitors in the SWERC competition held in Paris. In 2024, the team won 24th place out of 141 teams that competed in the competition held in Lisbon; and in 2025, the team was …

Registration is now open for the STARKWARE Award for outstanding undergraduate students, which will award prizes worth 15,000 NIS each. For details and to apply, please visit the following link: https://forms.gle/y7dvwtTKwAzqoTJi6 Application deadline: APRIL 24, 2025

Dean Leitersdorf, a graduate of the faculty, was selected for Forbes' list of promising young people for 2025 Leitersdorf turned his startup Decart.ai into a sensation in the field in record time. And that's not the only record he broke, he completed his three degrees at our faculty, in less than six years, on his way to a doctorate in record time; he founded the artificial intelligence startup Decart with his partner Moshe Shalev a little over a year ago, and in a short time introduced a …

Faculty alumnus Johnny Srouji, considered the most senior Israeli at Apple and one of the leaders in the world of chips, will receive the imec Innovation Award for his contribution to hardware. Srouji led Apple's transition to self-developed ARM processors, a move that changed the computing industry. For the full article in Vala, click on the link

We are proud of our outstanding teaching assistants of the spring semester 2024, whose hard and daily work allows us to bring about continuous improvement in teaching at the faculty. Persistent outstanding practitioners: Yara Shamshoum - Introduction to Computer Science PythonShunit Agmon - Introduction to Group Theory and Automata for the Department of MathematicsAmit Ganz - Algorithms 1Ity Hasson - Logic for Computer ScienceBoaz Moav - Computer Organization and ProgrammingOmer Rappoport …

Hen Davidov, who completed his bachelor's degree at the Taub Faculty of Computer Science and is now working on his master's degree there, was selected for the 2025 Rhodes Scholars list. The selection will allow him to continue his doctorate at Oxford. He graduated with honors and is developing AI-based methods that help doctors diagnose breast cancer, and he intends to work on this for his doctorate as well. He is also an environmental activist who calls for equality and peaceful conflict …

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Congratulations to Assaf Rappaport, a graduate of the faculty, on the acquisition of Wiz by Google for approximately 32 billion Dollars. This deal breaks two historical records: the largest exit in the history of the State of Israel and the largest acquisition in the history of Google. The purchase amount is more than double the previous record for an Israeli exit – the sale of Mobileye for 15 billion Dollars. Rappaport, a graduate of the "Talpiot" program, completed a master's …

Two Israeli companies starred in Nvidia's annual launch last night: Deci and Mellanox. Deci was acquired by Nvidia last year for about $300 million. Prof. Ran El-Yaniv, a faculty member at the Taub Faculty of Computer Science, and faculty alumnus and CEO Dr. Jonathan Geifman are co-founders, and Technion alumnus Ran Z. is VP of Engineering. Mellanox was acquired by Nvidia for $6.9 billion. Eyal Waldman, a bachelor's degree graduate at the faculty, is the former CEO and …

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Congratulations to Shaked Goldshtein for winning first place in the 2023-2024 security development competition. The award was given to him for his work "Building Interior Prediction" in which he developed a machine learning-based model for predicting the internal structure of buildings, including the division of rooms, staircases and doorways, based on their external visibility. Shaked, a bachelor's degree student, is studying in the three-year track with a focus on courses in artificial …

Warm congratulations to Hadas Avraham on winning the Kenneth and Gloria Levy Excellence Scholarship. Hadas is a PhD student advised by Prof. Eitan Yaakobi and Prof. Alex Bronstein. Her research deals with deep learning solutions and algorithms for DNA storage systems and their applications.

Warm congratulations to the Jacobs-Qualcomm Honors winners: Tomer Even - a PhD student advised by Prof. Keren Censor-Hillel. His research deals with random algorithms in graphs. Guy Bar-Shalom - a PhD student advised by Prof. Ran El-Yaniv and Prof. Haggai Maron. Guy's research deals with learning on data with symmetries, with applications in graphs, and uncertainty estimation.

Warm congratulations to the Jacobs-Gutwirth Honors winners Omer Sabary - is the recipient of the Jacobs Fellowship. Omer, a PhD student advised by Prof. Eitan Yaakobi and Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh, is developing algorithms and error-correcting codes for emergent synthesis and sequencing methods in DNA-based data storage systems. Tomer Cory - recipient of the Jacobs Fellowship. Tomer, a Master's student advised by Prof. Erez Petrank, is working on memory management and parallel data …

Young Galileo Magazine: Faculty graduate Dr. Stav Alber in an article on the history of cipher decoding. Link to the article

Congratulations to Dr. Gil Shamai on winning the Herschel Rich Prize for Research Innovation for 2025, for his work: Deep Learning Prediction of Tumor Functional State from Pathology Slides for Improved Cancer Treatment Decisions Gil Shamai, a researcher in Prof. Ron Kimmel's research team, analyzes images of cancer tissues using artificial intelligence to understand biological mechanisms, with the aim of improving treatment decisions for cancer patients. Congratulations!

When you enter the Technion, you are met with a complete surprise: an innovative and colorful design that combines aesthetics and functionality in an unexpected way. Read the full article on Ynet

Warm congratulations to Bashar Khoury On Winning The VATAT Scholarship For Outstanding Graduate Students. Bashar is studying for his master's degree under the advisment of Prof. Assaf Schuster. Bashar's research deals with predicting high-dimensional time series using deep learning methods. Congratulations and continued success in your studies and research!

Hen graduated with honors from his undergraduate degree and is currently working on developing AI-based methods to help doctors diagnose breast cancer, a topic he plans to pursue for his PhD at the University of Oxford. Hen’s research focuses on developing AI-based tools to improve medical decision-making, particularly for predicting patient survival. One of the key challenges in this area is dealing with the inherent uncertainty in predictions – it is sometimes difficult to …

Karin Eibschitz-Segal, co-CEO of Intel Israel and a graduate of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion, has been appointed to head the Server and Artificial Intelligence Division. In this role, Eibschitz will manage one of the most important divisions for the company's future, which deals with the next generation of cloud computing processors and artificial intelligence.She began her career at Intel 22 years ago as a computer science student at the Technion. In parallel with her …

The Technion is the leading university in Israel in the field of computer science for 2025, and is included in the 101-125th place in the world ranking together with Tel Aviv University. This is according to the World University Rankings index published by Times Higher Education magazine. The index is based on extensive information that includes the performance of universities in research, teaching, collaboration with industry and international activity on a global scale. This evidence of …

Open Day for those interested in studying at the Technion – Thursday and Friday, May 29-30, in Sarona, Tel Aviv. - Thursday, May 29 between 11:00-18:00 – An opportunity to deepen and get to know the study paths at the faculty, meet the staff and best prepare for the beginning of the journey - Friday, May 30 between 10:00-14:00 – Invitation to coffee with faculty graduates, students and staff. The goal of the Faculty of Computer Science is to educate outstanding …

You are invited to experience an HR interview simulation with a recruiter from the industry!Want to upgrade your interview skills? This is the perfect opportunity to practice, receive feedback and improve your chances of success!The purpose of the simulation is to allow you to experience an interview and receive feedback that will help you succeed in future interviews So how does it work?You register at the attached linkYou receive an email from a recruiter and directly set a date for a …

Kira Radinsky, a visiting researcher at the faculty, in an interview for the podcast "It's Time for Education" - shares insights from her life story and thoughts on the future of education in an era where reality surpasses imagination. For the full article - dunow  

Dean Zadok, a Ph.D. in the faculty, is developing a robotic system that is expected to change the lives of amputees. The system already allows the user to play the piano and type on a computer, and the intention is to continue improving its capabilities. For the interview in Kan Tarbut

Computer Science Excellence Awards and Certificates Ceremony for the 2023/24 Academic Year On Sunday, January 5, 2025, a meeting was held to award scholarships and certificates to outstanding students in Computer Science for the year 2024 at the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion, and was attended by representatives of the families and companies granting the scholarships and the families of the outstanding students. Prof. Oren Salzman moderated the ceremony …

Dr. Stav Alber, a graduate of the faculty, was selected in the list of promising young people of The Marker magazine For the article in The Marker, click on the link For the full article, click on the link