Awards

Academic Recognition

  • 2022: Outstanding Employee Award, Technion
  • 2013: Best Poster Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
  • 2009: Outstanding Employee Award, Faculty to Electrical Engineering, Technion
  • 2008: Dean’s List of Honor, M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Haifa
  • 2007: Akavia Scholarship, Department of Comouter Science, University of Haifa
  • 2006: Scholarship for Academic Excellence, University of Haifa
  • 2005: Outstanding Employee Award, Faculty to Electrical Engineering, Technion
  • 2004: Outstanding Student Presentation Award: 2nd International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE), London

Teaching Awards

  • 2023: Supervisor, 2nd runner-up, IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2023 – Differentiatiating schizophrenia and bipolar psychosis using fMRI scans
  • 2022: Co-supervisor, Best Demo Award, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) – “Using a Smartphone for Augmented Reality in a Classroom
  • 2020: Supervisor, Project “Blood Pressure Estimation from PPG Signals”, 1st place, Kasher Project Contest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion
  • 2020: Co-supervisor, Grand Prize Winner, IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2020 – Detection of abnormal events in autonomous systems
  • 2016: Supervisor, Project “Distance Estimation of Marine Vehicles” – Excellence Award, Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) Student Competition
  • 2015: Supervisor, Project “Distance Estimation of Marine Vehicles” – 2nd place, Kasher Project Contest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion
  • 2014: Supervisor, Project “Augmented Reality Pinball” – 2nd place, Technion Intel Challenge. Featured as the main live demo at the Tel-Aviv Innovation Festival 2014 with President Shimon Peres
  • 2013: Supervisor, Project “DCT Sub-band Similarity for Image and Video Quality Assessment” – 3rd place, Kasher Project Contest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion
  • 2012: Supervisor, Project “Moving Shadow Detection by Nonlinear Tone-Mapping” – 1st place, Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC)  Undergraduate Student Competition
  • 2011: Co-supervisor, Project “Object Reidentification in Real World Scenarios across Multiple Non-overlapping Cameras” – 3rd place, iIsrael Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) Student Competition
  • 2009: Supervisor, Project “Real-time Embedded Pedestrian Detection and Tracking” – 2nd place, Kasher Project Contest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion
  • 2009: Co-supervisor, Project “Real-Time Voice Scrambler and Descrambler” – 4th place, Atmel hArtes Design Contest
  • 2005: Co-supervisor, Project “Telephone Bandwidth Extension Using Atmel DIOPSIS 740” – 3rd place, Atmel DSP Design Contest
  • 2005: Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Technion