Category: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

3D vision utilizing single lens camera

Researcher: Associate Prof. Guy Gilboa

In recent years, depth sensing has become essential for a variety of new significant applications. For example, depth sensors assist autonomous cars in navigation and in collision prevention. The physical constraints on active depth sensing mobile devices, such as light...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

A novel memory structure in the CPU

Researcher: Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky

SRAM is the commonly used memory technology in CPU. The low density and high static power limit the amount of data that can be stored in buffers, register files, and caches, just to name a few. This calls for new...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

A system and method for live and recorded free-viewpoint video

Researcher: Prof. Craig (Chaim) Gotsman

As any lover of live sports events knows, user control of a video camera’s viewpoint can be a highly prized feature. Unfortunately, it is not feasible to allow each viewer to actively control his own robotic video camera from home....
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Acoustic localization and mapping of multi-rotor vehicles

Researcher: Prof. Alexander Bronstein

A self-localization system for multi rotor drones . Localization is based on analysis of acoustic signature of returned acoustic signals as a result resulting from reflections from nearby objects. The transmitted acoustic signal is derived from rotor rotation. Advantages Localization...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Adaptive coded communication over heterogeneous networks

Researcher: Alejandro Cohen

Big-Data revolution increases the demand for network connectivity, high data rates, ultra-low latencies, and resource-intensive computations that require efficient utilization of all possible resources. To meet this need there is a huge need for scalable adaptive coding-based solutions for advanced...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Adaptive cycle engine

Researcher: Prof. Beni Cukurel

As the operational envelope of unmanned air vehicles expands into the high sub-sonic and transonic speed range, the engine design process requires compromises in thrust, weight, fuel consumption, size, reliability, and manufacturing cost. Moreover, the engine requirements for multiple operating...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Security & Defence

All-angle electromagnetically transparent surfaces

Researcher: Ariel Epstein

Reflection off antenna radomes may distort the radiation pattern and reduce gain or bandwidth. Optical refraction may deform wavefronts of light and produce aberrant images. Remarkably, both wave reflection and refraction are inherently spatially dispersive, namely, they depend on the...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Audio SNR improvement utilizing video analysis

Researcher: Prof. Yoav Schechner

This work deals with complex scenarios such as a ‘cocktail party’: multiple sound sources exist simultaneously in all modalities. This inhibits the interpretation of each source. Cross-modal analysis offers information beyond that extracted from individual modalities. Consider a camcorder having a...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Binarized neural networks

Researcher: Associate Prof. Daniel Soudry

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have substantially pushed Artificial Intelligence (AI) limits in a wide range of tasks. Today, DNNs are almost exclusively trained on one or many very fast and power - hungry Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). In a training...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Bioconvergency: Molecule data storage systems and methods

Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Roee Amit

DNA, due to its remarkable data density and long-term stability, is an appealing potential candidate component of next generation data storage systems, most notably for long term archiving applications. Large scale, high throughput, DNA synthesis technology is needed. However, current...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|FoodTech & Biotechnology

CAD SYSTEMS - volumetric representation

Researcher: Prof. Gershon Elber

The boundary representations (B-reps) that are spline based, have served as the geometric representation of choice for over five decades, in all commercial mechanical design (MCAD) systems. That said, the gap between design and modern (additive) manufacturing is expanding, due...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

ClassifAI – Next-generation binary search technology

Researcher: Prof. Mark Silberstein

Packet steering is a fundamental function in network devices such as SmartNICs, switches and routers. The number of steering rules is proportional to the number of users. But TECHNOLOGY LAGS BEHIND. The present packet steering technology powering network-packet-processors is incapable...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Cloud BIM – collaborative platform for building professionals

Researcher: Prof. Rafael Sacks

The fragmented nature of the construction industry necessitates close collaboration among design disciplines and requires extensive data exchange. Despite advances in Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology, teams still rely on a sequential file-based process for design exchange, resulting in issues...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Sustainability Energy & ConTech

Cloud HW - performance improvements in Disk and CPU

Researcher: Prof. Dan Tsafrir

Large-scale storage systems are designed with redundancy to prevent data loss after a disk failure, often by replicating data. Redundancy is necessary since a large number of disks implies a short mean time to a single disk failure. Systems are...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

CMOS ISFET sensitive detector

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Yael Nemirovsky

Ion sensitive field effect transistors (ISFET), are used to detect presence and concentrations of various species of ions in fluids into which they are placed. ISFETs have long been considered good candidates for providing small, fast, sensitive, accurate, and relatively...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Medical Devices & Digital Health

CMOS-SiPM array for ToF measurements

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Yael Nemirovsky

Ultra-sensitive light detection systems are increasingly being employed in applications such as mobile range finding, automotive ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), gesture recognition, 3D mapping, security, etc. There is an increasing need for "Super-Camera" which is capable of producing two-dimensional and...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Code ranking

Researcher: Prof. Eran Yahav

Developers facing a programming task often look for readily available code snippets to be incorporated into their project. Such segments may be taken from publically-available projects, and in particular open source libraries and repositories, as well as from the user's...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Coded aperture ultrasound detector

Researcher: Associate Prof. Amir Rosenthal

Optoacoustic tomography (OAT) offers the unique capability to image optical contrast deep in the tissue. While OAT can produce very detailed images of blood vessels and lipid deposition, making it a potential solution to many clinical challenges, it requires 1000’s...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum|Medical Devices & Digital Health

Complex events processing in data streaming

Researcher: Prof. Assaf Schuster

Complex event processing (CEP) algorithms are widely employed in applications where arbitrarily complex patterns of data items must be promptly and efficiently detected in massive data streams. CEP algorithms treat data items as events, as new events are detected they...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Security & Defence

Constrained Coding

Researcher: Associate Prof. Yitzhak Birk

Information in certain memory cells, such as NAND Flash, is expressed as a charge level in a capacitive cell, which in turn determines a voltage threshold for opening a related transistor gate. Unfortunately, through stray capacitance, the charge in one...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Construction of 3D Trusses via sphere packing

Researcher: Prof. Gershon Elber

Truss lattices are common in a wide variety of engineering applications, due to their high ratio of strength versus relative density. They are used both as the interior support for other structures, and as structures on their own. Using 3D sphere...
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CPU level security

Researcher: Prof. Avi Mendelson

Speculative execution is a technique used by modern processors with out of order architecture to speed up performances, where the processor may execute some tasks ahead of time before it is known whether these tasks are actually needed. When the...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Security & Defence

Data-flow analysis pipeline

Researcher: Prof. Roy Kishony

Traceability, reproducibility, transparency and efficiency are becoming increasingly important in the data analysis pipelines underlying today’s data-rich biomedical research. These analysis pipelines are typically composed of multiple steps, where raw data is hierarchically transformed into simpler, and gradually more insightful,...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Databases queries

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

Large datasets play a vital role, particularly in modern AI applications. To ensure efficient query processing and minimize disk access, advanced query optimization capabilities are necessary. The containment rate measures the percentage of result tuples from query Q1 that are...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Decision making under uncertain conditions

Researcher: Prof. Vadim Indelman

A system and methods are provided for decision making under uncertainty, for selecting an optimal action from among multiple candidate actions in belief space planning (BSP). BSP is a scalable approach for planning under uncertainty. Today, the two processes, inference...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Deep learning of robotic tasks using strong and weak human supervision

Researcher: Prof. Ran El-Yaniv

Consider the task of designing a robot capable of performing a complex human task such as dishwashing, driving or clothes ironing. Although natural for adult humans, designing a hard-coded algorithm for such a robot can be a daunting challenge. Difficulties...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Diamond electronics and oxygen sensor

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Rafi Kalish

Current oxygen sensors required for in-situ oxygen monitoring inside a process chamber in semiconductor manufacturing processes (such as ALD, epi CVD and PVD) are limited in operating pressure and temperature ranges. Transition metal oxides are highly sensitive to gases environment....
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Displays from space using swarms of nanosatellites

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli|Prof. Ehud Behar

Nano-satellites for forming signs enable easy display of changing signs over different territories and time windows. Known solutions require large satellites and expensive deployment mechanisms and resources. This technology deploys an array of nanosatellites for display forming which allow for...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Distributed cloud computing elasticity

Researcher: Prof. Danny Raz

One of the important concepts behind the adoption of cloud computing is the Pay-As-You-Go model. In this model, which is currently in use by major cloud providers such as Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure, service providers pay only for allocated...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Edge-state based actuation in ferroelectric field effect transistors

Researcher: Associate Prof. Elad Koren

One of the holy grails for the microelectronic industry is to continue device miniaturization in order to increase the operation speed of the device (clock speed) and to pack more devices to reduce the fabrication cost. Therefore, many efforts are...
Categories: Chemistry & Materials|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Electronic encyclopedia for enriching document representation for information retrieval tasks

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Shaul Markovitch

Computerized categorization of text documents has many real world applications. One example is enabling a computer to filter email messages by detecting the messages that are relevant to the categories of interest to the receiver. Another example is news or...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Enhancing conductivity and reactivity in electro-catalytic materials

Researcher: Associate Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker

Electrode quality for electrochemical conversion needs material improvement and design. For instance, conversion efficiencies of photoelectrochemical cells used for water splitting reaction are limited by the intrinsic material properties of the electrode. The electrode should be a good conductor, a...
Categories: Chemistry & Materials|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Sustainability Energy & ConTech

Extreme dimensionality reduction of network training dynamics

Researcher: Associate Prof. Guy Gilboa

Training neural-networks is a highly demanding process, with respect to computational resources and time. Moreover, updating trained networks in deployment with new data is costly and may reduce the overall performance of the network (e.g. due to “catastrophic forgetting”). As...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Fast query on hierarchical databases

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

Hierarchical databases, which include tree structured ones such as XML documents, are commonly employed in information retrieval systems. However, previous hierarchical processing algorithms perform poorly in multi-threaded environments, leading to slow data retrieval. Viewing the database as a collection of...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Fast training for very large NN

Researcher: Prof. Assaf Schuster

Modern deep neural networks are comprised of millions of parameters which require massive amounts of data and time to train. Steady growth along the years has led these networks to a point where it takes too long to train a...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Fundamental component of modern hardware security

Researcher: Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky

Emerging nanoelectronic memristive technologies promise to provide an alternative to the ubiquitous CMOS technology. CMOS compatibility, along with a combination of properties such as non-linearity, non-volatility and sensitivity to process variations, make this technology appealing for embedded security applications. The...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum|Security & Defence

Holographic multi-image printing

Researcher: Prof. Gershon Elber

During the last years various engraving devices have been developed. These systems are easy to transport for use at events and trade shows, facilitating on the fly manufacturing of engraved objects according to received images. The technology is based on...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Image compression and active acquisition using deep posterior sampling

Researcher: Prof. Michael Elad|Prof. Tomer Michaeli

Signals compression or active acquisition can be very heavy data transmitting processes. By taking advantage of recently discovered generative AI capabilities (and specifically diffusion models), our technology enables a computational process for discovering an optimized set of measurements for obtaining...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Security & Defence

In-memory computing in emerging memory technologies

Researcher: Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky

Conventional computer architecture (von Neumann architecture) is based on a separation between the computation (i.e., CPU) and the storage (i.e., memory). This architecture is simple and widely used, but is problematic for memory-intensive application due to the need to read...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Incremental physical data clustering

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

XML is becoming widely used as a primary encoding scheme for data and knowledge. The number of applications based on XML grows steadily. XML is also used extensively in encoding of databases (DB). The DB is practically stored as one...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Interactive channel

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

A channel distribution system has a channel carrying content, and an interactive receiver which receives content and provides to a user. The interactive receiver has an interface to allow the user to interact with the content. The channel also includes...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Machine learning and data mining

Researcher: Prof. Ran El-Yaniv

Semantic relatedness (SR) is about quantification of the intensity of how much two objects are related to each other. Most automatic SR valuation techniques rely on some kind of world or expert knowledge, which we term background knowledge. The technology...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Matrix multiplication on large data structure

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Ran Ginosar|Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky

Machine learning algorithms performed on High Performance Computers (HPC) address complex challenges. These problems are plagued by exponentially growing datasets and pose a major challenge to HPC architects as they cannot be adequately addressed by simply adding more parallel processing....
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Memory swapper for virtualized environments

Researcher: Prof. Assaf Schuster

The main enabling technology for cloud computing is machine virtualization, which abstracts the rigid physical infrastructure and turns it into soft components that may be easily managed and used. Clouds and virtualization are driven by strong economical incentives, notably the...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Memristors based neural networks and neuromorphic computing

Researcher: Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky

The impending end of Moore’s law and Dennard's scaling require rethinking the way computing is performed. Thus, several neuro-inspired architectures have been proposed, shifting the spotlight from the traditional von Neumann paradigm to neuromorphic computing. To implement this new paradigm,...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Message authentication based on physical location on a bus

Researcher: Prof. Eli Biham

With the ever evolving connectivity and functionality of devices, systems, infrastructures and/or the like, cyber-attacks and cyber threats may present a major and ever growing security concern for multiple networks, systems and infrastructures. Potential malicious attackers may penetrate a network...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Security & Defence

Method and systems of geometric deformation

Researcher: Prof. Craig (Chaim) Gotsman

During the last years, numerous graphics applications have been developed, for example for image deformation, such as “warping” or “morphing” in which one image gradually transformed into another image. This is accomplished by creating a smooth transitional link between the...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
AI based Optimization scheme for MIMO /Array RADAR systems reducing complexity and cost by optimizing antenna and transmitter/ Receiver topology and reducing the overall number of Transmitting/ Receiving blocks. Advantages Cost and power reduction of RADAR systems Size reduction Applications...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Miniaturized Ultrasound Detectors

Researcher: Associate Prof. Amir Rosenthal

Ultrasound technology today is bulky and involves imaging probes with typical sizes of several centimeters. We have developed a new methodology for ultrasound imaging that can achieve extreme levels of miniaturization preserving high-resolution. This platform relies on optical technology for...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum|Medical Devices & Digital Health

Minimum maximal level programming

Researcher: Associate Prof. Yitzhak Birk

Writing to NAND Flash memory is much slower than reading. Also, writing to a cell increases with an increase in the required increase to its charge level. Finally, since a full page is written concurrently, the writing time to a...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Mixed metal electrode for ambipolar charge injection

Researcher: Prof. Gitti Frey

Ambipolar transistors can transport holes and electrons, separately or concurrently, within the semiconducting channel. The operation of the device requires that the semiconducting material composing the device is capable of efficiently transporting both charge carriers, and the suitable alignment of...
Categories: Chemistry & Materials|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

ML based lineage in databases

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

Data lineage (a type of provenance) consists of metadata added to the data in a database. It enables tracking down errors within the data and can also be used for justification for the existence of data in the database. Data...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Modulation techniques for optical and other networks

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Moshe Nazarathy

Cellular networks and fiber optic networks require higher data rates and improved latency. We offer technologies that include enhanced modulation schemes and their decoding techniques to facilitate the new requirements. For cellular CRAN application, to support high rates the technology...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Motion conversion mechanisms

Researcher: Prof. David Elata

In micro devices, built from a single layer (i.e. wafer fabrication) an in-plane force is easy to implement but an out-of-plane motion is hard to achieve and requires custom fabrication each unit using FIB and complex assemblies or actuators which...
Categories: Chemistry & Materials|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Multispectral imaging device with no moving parts

Researcher: Associate Prof. Carmel Rotschild

Multispectral and spectral imaging is used to collect spatially and spectrally resolved radiance information of a predefined region of space. Devices for imaging are built per specific application, resolution and wavelength requirements. Each image pixel contains spectroscopic data. All the...
Categories: Chemistry & Materials|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum|Sustainability Energy & ConTech

Multithreading memory flow

Researcher: Prof. Avinoam Kolodny

Multithreading processors have been used to improve performance in a single core for the past two decades. One low power and low complexity multithreading technique is Switch on Event multithreading (SOE MT), also known as coarse grain multithreading and block...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Noise recycling based multi-level flash memory

Researcher: Alejandro Cohen

The Noise Recycling Decoder (NRD) is a novel decoding scheme for multi-level flash memory (MLC) that significantly enhances data reliability and storage capacity without increasing hardware complexity. Traditional MLC flash stores multiple bits per cell, but higher density reduces voltage...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Non-Contact levitation

Researcher: Prof. Izhak Bucher

In clean manufacturing environments such as in the semi-conductor industry, transferring items such as wafers, glass, screens and other flat objects might cause to their contamination due to splashes from lubricants for example. A method and a device to carry...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Optical reconfigurable logic device

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Moshe Nazarathy

In last few years, there is a need for an optical reconfigurable logic device which enables to lay foundations for all-optical networking, wherein the optical packets are routed by ultra-fast smart all-optical switches as well as optical computing devices. The...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Optimization of virtual machines and HW CPU interface

Researcher: Associate Prof. Yoav Etsion

Although modern systems include multiple components that need to access the disk, existing systems require that all file accesses be delegated to the operating system/hypervisor. This is due to the fact that only the operating system possesses the logical-to-physical mapping...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Outsmarting nonuniform DMA

Researcher: Prof. Dan Tsafrir

In a multi-CPU server, memory modules are local to the CPU to which they are connected, forming a nonuniform memory access (NUMA) architecture. Because non-local accesses are slower than local accesses, the NUMA architecture might degrade application performance. Similar slowdowns...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Piezoelectric devices with obliquely aligned electrodes

Researcher: Prof. David Elata

There exist many mechanical designs of piezoelectric unimorph actuators that can generate various motions other than conventional in-plane motions. Such devices are used to generate deflections or bending, twisting or torsional motion, and parallel out-of-plane motion, for use in micro-electromechanical...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Probabilistic object classifications

Researcher: Prof. Vadim Indelman

Object detection and classification is a component of situational awareness important to many autonomous systems and robotic tasks. The mobility of robotic systems is widely exploited to overcome limitations of static, one-point-of-view approaches to measurement classification. These limitations may include...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Programming for electronic memories

Researcher: Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky

Some Multi-Level-Cell memories suffer from nonlinearity in their switching mechanism (e.g., ReRAM). Using fixed programming pulses leads to a non-uniform level distribution and state-dependent programming which burdens the controller and demands a modified programming techniques. In order to deal with...
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Proof of Lottery (PoL), efficient blockchain

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

Blockchain networks comprise a community of computing nodes constructed to manage and maintain blockchains and are deployed to facilitate distributed ledgers for a plurality of uses and applications. The distributed ledgers stored simultaneously by a plurality untested community members may...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Security & Defence

Queries on social networks

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

A social network is a social structure made of units such as individuals or organizations, known as nodes which are connected via links representing friendship or the like, known as edges. Databases are used for data management of social network...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Reconstruction algorithms for DNA-storage systems

Researcher: Associate Prof. Eitan Yaakobi

Technology A DNA storage system consists of three components: (i) DNA synthesis which produces the oligonucleotides, also called strands, that encode the data ; (ii) a storage container with compartments which stores the DNA strands, however without order ; (iii)...
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Reinforcement learning of robotic control policies

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Miriam Zacksenhouse

Robots are expected to propagate over different terrains. There is a growing need to provide a method for controlling a movement of a robot that is robust, can allow the robot to propagate over terrains with positive and negative slopes,...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Retired page utilization

Researcher: Associate Prof. Yitzhak Birk

In NAND Flash memory, one cannot selectively or incrementally reduce the charge levels. Therefore, if a page cannot be written to because the level of at least one of its cells must be reduced, a blank page is used and...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Reverse engineering of a VLSI device utilizing scan-chain

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Ran Ginosar

Reverse engineering of a VLSI device is usually a two-stage process, comprising (1) extraction of a circuit description from the physical device and (2) behavioral model extraction from the circuit description (usually algorithmic). The first stage, as a rule, involves...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

RF circuits based on emerging memory technologies (memristors)

Researcher: Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky

A large area of the main board in a communication device is occupied by RF chips from different vendors to support different standards. Reconfigurable RFICs are an attractive feature to sustain the increasing number of standards and frequency bands of...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

RFIC Design for narrow separation FDD communication

Researcher: Associate Prof. Emanuel Cohen

A novel circuit design comprised of an Isolator which isolates TX-> RX signal and passes the TX signal to the ANT port with a -3dB loss. Tests done on actual chips has shown improved isolation compared to all known state...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

RFIC for MIMO OFDM (5-7GHz)

Researcher: Associate Prof. Emanuel Cohen

RFIC implementation of a transceiver front end for various applications up to 28Ghz deploying CMOS technology Advantages Enhanced TX/RX isolation utilizing CMOS technology Low cost CMOS implementation Applications and Opportunities Wifi and cellular transceiver ICS
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Road traffic forecasting system

Researcher: Prof. Tomer Toledo

Setting complex traffic light plans is a must as intersections are becoming more complicated and crowded. Current plans must take into account not only vehicles and pedestrians but also bicycles, public transportation of different types etc. The plans should provide...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Securing program execution

Researcher: Associate Prof. Yitzhak Birk

This invention addresses the need to provide security (confidentiality and integrity) to an application running on a computer that is controlled by an untrusted owner with an untrusted operating system and even hypervisor or virtual machine monitor. Only the CPU...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Security & Defence

Self-correcting non-invasive brain computer interfaces

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Miriam Zacksenhouse

Non-invasive Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) measure electroencephalography (EEG) potentials from the scalp and interpret them, through signal processing and machine learning, to make decisions and operate computers or other external devices. However, practical applications of BCIs are hampered due to...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Medical Devices & Digital Health

Simple process for forming conductive oxide interfaces

Researcher: Dr. Lior Kornblum

Some insulating oxides can form conducting interfaces. These interfaces consist of a high-density of electrons roughly confined to a 2-dimensional layer (often referred to as 2DEGs) between two insulators, and it can possess unusual electrical properties. These conducting interfaces are...
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Single input multiplexed decision system

Researcher: Associate Professor Ramez Daniel

Many applications of genetic or metabolic engineering require inducible expression of the desired pathway. Inducible promoters are one of the easiest and most effective ways to control gene expression. However, in a more sophisticated applications there is a need to...
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Speculative early sensing

Researcher: Associate Prof. Yitzhak Birk

Reading NAND Flash, as well as some other types of memory cells, entails applying a reference voltage, waiting, and then sensing a certain voltage to determine whether then threshold voltage of the cell was higher or lower than the reference...
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Sub-10 nm monolithic ferroelectric-semiconductor junction

Researcher: Associate Prof. Elad Koren

Selective illumination using a scanning laser probe, is used to convert In2Se3 to In2O3, and achieved spatially resolved distinct optical and electrical properties. The method is used to design of coplanar P/N ferroelectric – semiconducting heterojunction. In addition, In2Se3 can...
Categories: Chemistry & Materials|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Sub-band separation in optical communication

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Moshe Nazarathy

Increasing throughputs in optical communication networks require more signal processing resources in the transceivers hardware. As a result, new signal processing schemes are required to handle the requirements. The technology includes digital oversampled filter banks for the first time in...
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SURF - optimized data distribution system

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

In a hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments, an enterprise employs a number of cloud data centers, which may be geographically distributed. The problem of where to place and replicate data and applications is complicated by multiple dynamically changing conditions. There...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Synthetic aperture imaging by distributed arrays of space telescopes

Researcher: Prof. Oren Cohen

Long-range imaging is used across various disciplines, including astronomy, remote sensing and surveillance. Higher resolution requires larger aperture and lenses. This makes these systems expensive and cumbersome. A new method for synthetically expanding the aperture by acquiring multiple images of...
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System and method for emulating quantization noise for a neural network

Researcher: Prof. Alexander Bronstein

Training neural networks cannot be done with discrete values. The common solution is to approximate the quantized values with continuous ones which suffer accuracy degradation for extreme low precision especially for small models. The technology deals with training of low...
Categories: AI & Data Science|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

System and method to calibrate polarization-sensitive camera

Researcher: Prof. Yoav Schechner

Polarization-sensitive cameras are in mass production for integration in products at various markets. Calibration and quality testing are important when using industrial cameras. Polarization introduces new sensitivity concerns in calibration. For specialized research-level cameras, calibration systems in the world are...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Systems and methods for ultrasonic imaging

Researcher: Prof. Alexander Bronstein

Medical ultrasound is a wide-spread imaging modality due to its high temporal resolution, lack of harmful radiation and cost-effectiveness, which distinguishes it from other modalities such as MRI and CT. High temporal resolution is highly desired in additional to spatial...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Medical Devices & Digital Health

Tools to find similarity of various common procedures across compilers and versions

Researcher: Prof. Eran Yahav

We address the problem of finding similar procedures in stripped binaries (computer machine language executable artifacts). Previous solutions cannot find similarity between binaries compiled with different compilers (compiler = translator from high-level programmer written source code to machine code), or...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Ultra low power sampler for analog-to-digital converters

Researcher: Alejandro Cohen

Analog-to-Digital converters are core components in all applications that require translation of analog signals into digital representation. Traditional ADCs and fixed-rate samplers are constrained by high power consumption due to high-frequency sampling, inefficient data encoding for signals with varying amplitudes...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Wide scale terrestrial imaging of the sky

Researcher: Prof. Yoav Schechner

A variety of spaceborne and airborne instruments have been applied to spatio-angularly sample and image atmospheric radiance. These imaging architectures, however, have a spatial resolution of several Km/ pixel, an angular resolution of approximately 7 angles per view, and their...
Categories: Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Write-once memory (WOM) code for efficient FLASH memory utilization

Researcher: Prof. Assaf Schuster|Associate Prof. Eitan Yaakobi

Flash based solid state disks (SSD) are widely used thanks to their short read and write latencies and increasing throughput. However, once flash cells are written upon, they must be erased before they can be rewritten. These comparatively slow erasures,...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Yield and production optimization of photonic integrated circuits

Researcher: Prof. Emeritus Moshe Nazarathy

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) have multiple relatively slow tuning degrees of freedom (DOF), that must be adjusted in order to stabilize the PICs to their optimum operating points. Methods are needed to perform this stabilization. Without such methods, large scale integration...
Categories: Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum

Prof. Ehud Behar

Physics

Research Interests: Observational Astrophysics: observations of super-massive black holes, active stars, stellar winds, and supernova remnants. Experimental Astrophysics: gamma ray detectors for...

Prof. Alexander Bronstein

Computer Science

Research Interests: Computer vision. 3D Vision and shape analysis. Image and signal processing. Computational imaging. Machine learning. Large-scale data analysis.

Prof. Alfred Bruckstein

Computer Science

Research Interests: Image processing. Image analysis (a.k.a. Computer vision). Computer graphics. Pattern recognition. Robotics and ants. Applied geometry. Direct and inverse scattering....

Associate Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker

Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Renewable energy sources. Photovoltaic solar cells based on metal-oxide semiconductors for producing electricity. Energy conversion. Solid oxide fuel cells. Alternative...

Associate Prof. Emanuel Cohen

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: mm-Wave and 60GHz circuit and applications in advanced CMOS process. Algorithmic and high speed mixed signal, high speed circuits &...

Prof. Reuven Cohen

Computer Science

Research Interests: Architectures and protocols for computer networks: the Internet, wireless networks, cellular networks, broadband access networks, sensor networks,routing protocols, multicast, MAC...

Prof. Israel Cohen

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Statistical signal processing. Analysis and modeling of acoustic signals. Speech enhancement. Noise estimation. Microphone arrays. Source localization. Blind source separation....

Prof. Koby Crammer

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Online learning. Statistical learning theory. Machine learning and pattern recognition. Natural language processing.

Dr. Sagi Dalyot

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Geodata sciences. Navigation, mobility and Location-based services, focusing on people with physical disabilities. User-generated geographic content, crowdsourcing and citizen science.

Prof. Ran El-Yaniv

Computer Science

Research Interests: Statistical learning theory, data clustering and compression, applications to information retrieval. Web mining, human-computer interaction, biological sequence analysis, texture analysis...

Prof. David Elata

Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Modeling the static and dynamic response of electrostatic micro-actuators. Modeling and development of novel thermoelastic actuation schemes for mems devices....

Ariel Epstein

Computer Science

Research Interests: Electromagnetic metasurfaces, metagratings and meta-atoms Novel antenna devices and applications, including dynamic beamforming Unconventional wave scattering, absorption, and waveguiding Angularly...

Associate Prof. Yoav Etsion

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Computer architecture and microarchitecture. Coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures. Hardware/software interplay. Operating systems and runtime software. Parallel programming models.

Prof. Gitti Frey

Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Conducting and semiconducting polymers. Hybrid materials and nanocomposites. Electronic processes at organic/inorganic interfaces. Electrostatic interactions and Coulomb correlations in solution....

Prof. Roy Friedman

Computer Science

Research Interests: Distributed systems. Group communication. Middleware. Wireless ad-hoc networks. High-availability and fault-tolerance. Clustering. Scalable dynamic (P2P) systems.

Associate Prof. Guy Gilboa

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Image processing and computer vision, with strong focus on mathematical models related to calculus of variations and nonlinear spectral theory.

Prof. Emeritus Ran Ginosar

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Many-core plural architecture. Rad-Safe VLSI for space applications. Neurochips. Asynchronous logic design. Synchronization and multi-clock domains (MCD) systems on chip...

Prof. Craig (Chaim) Gotsman

Computer Science

Research Interests: Computer graphics. Geometry processing. Web-based graphics – optimizations for transmission and rendering, parametrization, meshing, morphing, visibility, and animation.

Prof. Alex Hayat

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Superconductor-semiconductor quantum devices. Topological insulator nanoelectronic devices. Exciton–polariton devices in semiconductor nanostructures.

Prof. Vadim Indelman

Aerospace Engineering

Research Interests: Planning under uncertainty and AI Semantic perception and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) Multi-robot systems

Associate Prof. Yachin Ivry

Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Low-power computing and memory. Non-volatile memory devices, Ferroelectric-based nanostructures and nano devices. Efficient switching devices, Ferroelectric-based nanostructures and nano devices....

Prof. Emeritus Rafi Kalish

Physics

Research Interests: Ion implantation of semiconductors. Ion impact related defects in semiconductors. Diamond as an electronic material. Nano diamond. Single optical centers...

Prof. Ron Kimmel

Computer Science

Research Interests: Computer vision. Graphics. Geometric machine learning and big data. Computational medicine and biometry. Applied metric and differential geometries.

Prof. Avinoam Kolodny

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Electronic design automation. Device, circuit and system modeling. Circuit design techniques. Engineering methodologies. Algorithms and software for analysis and synthesis...

Associate Prof. Elad Koren

Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Nanoscale characterization of electronic and opto-electronic materials and novel devices. Mechanical and electro-mechanical manipulation and characterization of low dimensional elements...

Dr. Lior Kornblum

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Study of the fundamental physics behind the electronic properties of functional oxides. Harnessing these unique properties towards new types of...

Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Circuit design. Computer architecture. Artificial intelligent. VLSI systems. Chip multiprocessor (CMP). Multithreading. Energy efficiency in computers. Hardware security. Neuromorphic computing....

Prof. Yehuda Leviatan

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Computational techniques in electromagnetics. Electromagnetic scattering analysis. Wavelets in electromagnetics. Periodic structures and gratings. Photonic and electromagnetic crystal structures. Photonic...

Prof. Emeritus David Malah

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Digital signal processing. Image, video, speech and audio: representation, coding, and transcoding. Multimedia signal processing, enhancement, and error concealment. Text-to-speech...

Prof. Shie Mannor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Reinforcement learning. High dimensional statistics and learning. Uncertainty and risk in decision making. Learning and modeling dynamics from data. Systems...

Prof. Ron Meir

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Dynamics and computation in biological networks. Reinforcement learning in natural and artificial systems. Neural encoding and decoding and multisensory integration....

Prof. Avi Mendelson

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Computer architecture. Operating systems. Power management, reliability, fault-tolerance, cloud computing. HPC and GPGPU including the use of “small devices” for...

Prof. Seffi Naor

Computer Science

Research Interests: Theory of algorithms and applications. Randomness andcomputation. Approximation and on-line algorithms. Combinatorial optimization. Randomized algorithms. Communicationnetworks. Parallel computation.

Prof. Emeritus Moshe Nazarathy

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Optical communication – advanced optical modulation formats and equalization techniques, MIMO techniques over multimode optical interconnects. Translucent optical networks, links...

Prof. Ariel Orda

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Network routing. Survivability. QoS provisioning. Wireless networks. The application of game theory to computer networking. Network pricing.

Prof. Boaz Pokroy

Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Biomineralization and mechanical properties of biomineralized tissue. Bioinspired crystal growth and synthesis of semiconductors via wet chemistry. Amorphous thin films...

Prof. Emeritus Dan Ritter

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: High speed indium phosphide based electronics. Optoelectronic integration. Indium phosphide optoelectronics. MetalOrganic Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MOMBE).

Prof. Ehud Rivlin

Computer Science

Research Interests: Robot vision. Robot navigation. Motion planning. Visual servoing. Active vision. Object recognition. Artificial intelligence. Image understanding. Image processing. Image databases.

Associate Prof. Amir Rosenthal

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging systems. Ultra-sensitive ultrasound detection. Interferometric systems. Minimally invasive imaging procedures.

Prof. Levi Schachter

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Advanced acceleration concepts. Interaction of free electrons with electromagnetic fields and waves. Interaction of electromagnetic field with the human body.

Prof. Yoav Schechner

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Computer vision. Optics. Imaging computational tomography. light in nature. Spaceborne missions. Environmental climate. Signal processing. Biological signals. Image structure and...

Prof. Emeritus Oded Shmueli

Computer Science

Research Interests: Database systems: Theoretical aspects of query processing in relational databases, XML databases and logic based databases (Datalog). System issues: Physical...

Prof. Emeritus Itzhak Shmulevich

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Soil/Machine interaction. Non-destructive firmness measuring of fruits and vegetables. Computation and modeling of agricultural and natural materials.

Prof. Mark Silberstein

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Computer systems. Operating systems. Compute and I/O accelerator. Hardware security and side channels. GPGPU and FPGA computing. Trusted execution environments....

Prof. Ronen Talmon

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Geometry-based Data Analysis & Modelling. Applied Harmonic Analysis. Diffusion Geometry. Speech Enhancement. Biomedical Signal Processing. Computational Neuroscience.

Prof. Nir Tessler

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Conducting, semi-conducting and light emitting organic materials. Photo-physical processes (including laser action and micro-cavities). Transport of charges and of electron-hole...

Prof. Tomer Toledo

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Large-scale traffic simulation. Intelligent transportation systems. Driver behavior modeling. Transportation network analysis. Dynamic traffic management systems. Transportation demand modeling.

Associate Prof. Eitan Yaakobi

Computer Science

Research Interests: Coding theory. Information theory. Non-volatile memories. DNA storage. Distributed storage. Private information retrieval.

Prof. Eran Yahav

Computer Science

Research Interests: Program synthesis, machine learning and information-retrieval techniques for PL. Program analysis, abstract interpretation, verification. Programming Languages, software engineering.

Dr. Yuval Yaish

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: NEMS based on CNTs and Graphene. Electrical properties of CNTs and Graphene. Chemical and biological sensing at the single molecule...

Dr. Eilam Yalon

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Nano-electronics. Semiconductor device physics. Energy-efficient electronics. Power and heat dissipation in devices. Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their application in electronic...

Prof. Emeritus Miriam Zacksenhouse

Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Machine learning for robotic control. Invasive brain machine interfaces (BMIS). Non-invasive brain computer interfaces (BCIS). Computational motor control. Neural oscillators...

Prof. Emeritus Yehoshua Zeevi

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Biological and computational vision. Visual communication and image representation. Intelligent image acquisition and processing technology. Biological and artificial neural networks....

Prof. Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Computer Vision: Reconstruction of objects and their physical properties, Interaction between objects. AI: Automation of machine learning. Haptics: Haptic feedback...
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