- Recipient of the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Fellowship, the Andrew and Erna Fince Viterbi Fellowship, the Horev Fellowship, the Norman Seiden Excellence Award, and the Schmidt Career Advancement Chair in Artificial Intelligence
- Funded by the ERC starting grant since 2018, entitled “Nonlinear Data and Signal Analysis with Diffusion Operators”
- Recent Publications include 'Hyperbolic Diffusion Embedding and Distance for Hierarchical Representation Learning', 'Few-Sample Feature Selection via Feature Manifold Learning', 'Domain and Modality Adaptation Using Multi-Kernel Matching'
Research Experience
- 2000 to 2005: Software Developer and Researcher at a technological unit of the Israeli Defense Forces
- 2005 to 2011: Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion
- 2011 to 2013: Gibbs Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Since 2014: Joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Technion
Education
- B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Open University (cum laude) in 2005
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion in 2011
Background
Research Interests: Signal Processing, Mathematics of Data Science, Manifold and Geometric Learning, Applied Harmonic Analysis. Brief Introduction: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.