In brief..
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2016 – present, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Research Scientist (and before that, postdoctoral associate), the Center for Brains Minds, and Machines.
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2013 – 2015, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Postdoctoral fellow and then Research Scientist ('Mitmache Bachir'). Advisor: Prof. Shimon Ullman.
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2008 – 2012, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,Israel. Ph.D in Computer Science. Thesis title: Visual curve completion in the tangent bundle. Advisor: Prof. Ohad Ben-Shahar.
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2006 – 2007, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. M.Sc in Computer Science. Thesis title: Computational and biologically-plausible models for curvature-based texture segregation. Advisor: Prof. Ohad Ben-Shahar.
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2002 – 2005, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,Israel. B.Sc in Computer Science & Physics (double major).
Selected honors and awards
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NSF postdoctoral associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
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Dean of faculty postdoctoral fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2012.
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Winner of the Intel award for excellent Israeli PhD students, 2011.
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Winner of the best Israeli student work in the field of image processing, computer vision and video processing, Israel Machine Vision Conference, 2011.
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Special award for excellence in teaching, the department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, 2011.
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Winner of the Friedman award for exceptional achievements for Ph.D. students, the department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2010.
Languages
Hebrew - mother tongue, English – fluent, French – basic level, German – basic level
Other than that
I sometimes play Jazz on my piano. I love to cook, and I enjoy good food and good wine. I'm an aficionado of history and politics. My highest achievement is my wife, and my best projects are my kids.
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