The 1st Convention of Electrical & Electronics engineering Students in Israel (IEEEIs 2015)
June 23, 2015
Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University
Program
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9:00 – 10:15 |
Opening + Keynote 1Rafi Nave"Hi-Tech Nation" |
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10:15 – 11:30 |
Poster Session 1(Lobby) |
Signal Processing 1(Room 02) |
Information Theory & Communications(Room 329) |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Coffee Break |
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12:00 – 13:15 |
Poster Session 2(Lobby) |
Signal Processing 2(Room 02) |
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13:15 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00 – 14:45 |
Keynote 2Prof. Zeev Zalevsky"Photonic ear for remote detection and diagnostic of diseases" |
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14:45 – 16:00 |
Poster Session 3(Lobby) |
Bioengineering & Biotechnology(Room 02) |
Electro-optics(Room 244) |
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16:00 – 16:15 |
Coffee Break |
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16:15 – 17:00 |
Keynote 3Dr. Akihiko Sugiyama"What I Wish I Knew When I was an Entry-Level Engineer" |
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11:30 – 13:45 Job Fair In parallel with the convention
Keynote speakers
Rafi Nave
Rafi Nave is the inaugural director of the Technion-wide Entrepreneurship Center. Nave has led a distinguished career as a leader of Israel's applied technology sector, most recently as Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Given Imaging Ltd., Chief Technology Officer of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. and Vice President of Research and Development for NDS Limited (acquired by Cisco). He started his lengthy career at Intel Israel where he progressed through positions of increasing responsibility and then served as General Manager of Intel's Haifa Design Center for five years. Nave has been awarded the Rothschild Prize for Industrial Developers by the President of the State of Israel, and the Intel Achievement Award.
Prof. Zeev Zalevsky
Zeev Zalevsky is a full Professor in the faculty of engineering in Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His major fields of research are optical super resolution, biomedical optics, nano-photonics and electro-optical devices, RF photonics and beam shaping. Zeev received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv University in 1993 and 1996 respectively. He has many publications, patents and awards recognizing his significant contribution to the field of super resolved imaging and biomedical sensing. Zeev is an OSA, SPIE and EOS fellow and IEEE senior member. He is currently serving as the vice Dean of engineering, the head of the electro-optics track and a director of the Nanophotonics Center at the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology. Zeev is also the founder of several startup companies.
Dr. Akihiko Sugiyama
Akihiko Sugiyama (a.k.a. Ken Sugiyama), affiliated with NEC Information and Media Processing Labs, has been engaged in a wide variety of research projects in signal processing such as audio coding and interference/noise control. His team developed the world's first Silicon Audio in 1994, the ancestor of iPod. He served as Chair of Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Tech. Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) [2011-2012], as associate editors for several journals such as IEEE Trans. SP [1994-1996], as the Secretary and a Member at Large to the Conference Board of SPS, and as the Chair of Japan Chapter of SPS [2010-2011]. He was a Technical Program Chair for ICASSP2012. He has contributed to 15 chapters of books and is the inventor of over 150 registered patents with more pending applications in the field of signal processing in Japan and overseas. He received 13 awards such as the 2002 IEICE Best Paper Award, the 2006 IEICE Achievement Award, and the 2013 Ichimura Industry Award. He is Fellow of IEEE and IEICE, and a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE SPS. He is also known as a big host for a total of over 70 internship students.
Detailed program
9:00 – 10:15 (Lobby): Rafi Nave
"Hi-Tech Nation"
10:15 – 11:30 (Lobby): Poster Session 1 (Yiftach Richter)
- Moriah Gidoni, Gur Yaari: “Mining next generation sequencing data reveals common antibody features in celiac disease patients”
- Alan Joseph Bekker, Moran Shalhon, Hayit Greenspan, Jacob Goldberger: “Learning To Combine Decisions from Multiple Mammography Views”
- Daniel Gudinetsky, O.B. Zetlawi, and S.R. Rotman: “Target detection in shadow scene”
- T. Schiff, S. Hazak, N. Matsliah and Y. Beck: “Non-linear load identification by means of currents’ physical components method"
- Yoni Harris and Matan Cohen: “RFID access for the blind”
- Moshe Avital, Hadar Dagan, Dr. Osnat Keren, Prof. Alexander Fish: “Randomized Multitopology Logic Against Differential Power Analysis”
- Itamar Levi, Osnat Keren, Alexander Fish: “Data-Dependent Delays Assignment Algorithm to withhold Power Analysis Attacks”
10:15 – 11:30 (Room 02): Signal Processing 1 (Elior Hadad)
- Boaz Schwartz, Sharon Gannot, Emanuël A.P. Habets: "Speech Dereverberation Using Kalman Filter and EM Algorithm"
- David Dov, Ronen Talmon, Israel Cohen: "Audio-Visual Voice Activity Detection Using Manifold Learning"
- Ilya Soloveychik, Ami Wiesel: "Group Symmetric Robust Covariance Estimation"
- Shahar Bar, Joseph Tabrikian: "Bayesian Estimation in the Presence of Deterministic Nuisance Parameters"
10:15 – 11:30 (Room 329): Information Theory & Communication (Avi Zanko)
- Philippe Ezran, Yoram Haddad, Merouane Debbah: "Polarization Diversity in Ring Topology Networks"
- Wasim Huleihel, Neri Merhav, Shlomo Shamai: "On Compressive Sensing in Coding Problems: A Rigorous Approach"
- Michal Yemini, Anelia Somekh-Baruch and Amir Leshem: "On the Asynchronous Cognitive MAC"
- Adi Homri, Michael Peleg and Shlomo Shamai: "Oblivious Processing in a Fronthaul Constrained Gaussian Channel"
12:00 – 13:15 (Lobby): Poster Session 2 (Michal Yemini)
- Arbel, L. Hirschbrand, S. Weiss, N. Levanon, and A. Zadok: "Continuous-Wave Laser Range Finder Based on Incoherent Compression of Periodic Sequences"
- Shahar Levy, Matvei Klebanov, Avi Zadok: "High-Q Ring Resonators Directly Written In Chalcogenide Waveguides"
- Ran Califa , Dvir Munk , Yuri Kaganovsky ,H.Genish, Idan bakish, Michael: Rosenbluh, and Avi Zadok: “Photo-Induced Tuning of Chalcogenide-on-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits”
- Idit Feder and Dror Fixler: “Optical tissue properties from full cattering profile of circular medium”
- Liron Bidani, Moshe Sinvani, Zeev Zalevsky: “Optical Sensing of Electrically Charged areas in silicon ICs”
- Shir Shahal and Moti Fridman: “Laser and plasmonic coupled modes”
- Hadar Zafri, Asaf Shahmoon, Liron Bidani, David Zitoun and Zeev Zalevsky: “SEM and FIB surface processing for realization of nano particles based nano devices”
- Yonatan Stern, Kun Zhong, Stefan Preussler, Moshe Tur, Thomas Schneider and Avi Zadok: “Frequency-selective filtering and analysis of radio-over-fiber using stimulated Brillouin scattering”
12:00 – 13:15 (Room 02): Signal Processing 2 (David Dov)
- Tamir Bendory, Shai Dekel and Arie Feuer: "Unified Convex Optimization Approach to Super-Resolution Based on Localized Kernels"
- Eyal Nitzan, Tirza Routtenberg, and Joseph Tabrikian: "Cyclic Bayesian Cram´er-Rao Bound for Filtering in Circular State Space"
- Bracha Laufer Goldshtein, Ronen Talmon and Sharon Gannot: "Relative Transfer Function Modeling For Supervised Source Localization"
- Ofer Schwartz, Sharon Gannot and Emanuël A.P. Habets: "Nested Generalized Sidelobe Canceler for Joint Dereverberation and Noise Reduction"
14:00 – 14:45: Keynote 2 - Prof. Zeev Zalevsky
"Photonic ear for remote detection and diagnostic of diseases"
14:45 – 16:00 (Lobby): Poster Session 3 (Boaz Schwartz)
- Dovid Y. Levin, Emanuël A.P. Habets, and Sharon Gannot: "A Generalized Theorem on the Average Array Directivity Factor"
- Elior Hadad and Sharon Gannot: "Linearly Constrained Binaural Noise Reduction Beamformers for Hearing Aid Applications"
- Dani Cherkassky and Sharon Gannot: “Blind Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks With Application to Speech Enhancement”
- Yiftach Richter and Itsik Bergel: "Optimal and Suboptimal Routing Based on Partial CSI in MIMO Ad-hoc Networks"
- Sapir Nativ-Zucker and Itsik Bergel: "Optimal power allocation for random ALOHA networks"
- Naama Kimelfeld and Yair Noam: “Subspace Zero Forcing for Interference Mitigation in Cellular Networks”
14:45 – 16:00 (Room 02): Bioengineering & Biotechnology (Neta Zilony)
- Merav Antman-Passig and Dr. Orit Shefi: "Magnetic hydrogel scaffolds for promoting and directing neuronal growth"
- Anna Kochnev & Shayke Stern ,guided by Prof. Yuri Feldman: "Small Tumor Microwave Ablation in the Digestive System"
- Adi Hanuka, Maor Itzhak, Alon Berger, Daniel Briscoe, Levi Schachter: "EMM: Eyelid Motion Monitor”
- Omer Hadad, Sergey vaisman, Amir B. Geva: "Sleep stages estimation using PPG derived respiration”
14:45 – 16:00 (Room 244): Electro-optics (Tali Ilovich)
- Yair Antman, Yosef London, Avi Zadok: "Optical interrogation and characterization of acoustic modes in optical fibers for sensing applications"
- Yosef London, Yair Antman, Nadav Levanon, Avi Zadok: "Long range high resolution sensing"
- Eyal Preter, Moshe Katzman, Ziv Oren, Maria Ronen, Doron Gerber, and Avi Zadok: “Fiber-optic evaporation analysis of environmental parameters and of synthetic urine samples”
- Igal Rozenberg, Prof Yonina Eldar, Prof. Yoash Levron: "Sparse Estimation and Compressed Sensing for Fault Location in Power Systems"