The AI Lab
Computer Science department
353 Serra Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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Education |
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2003-2007 |
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Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University ,
Dept. of computer science,
with Prof. Daphne Koller. |
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1998-2003 |
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Ph.D. Computational Neuroscience .
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation.
Advisors: Prof. N. Tishby
and Prof. I. Nelken. Thesis title: Information Theoretic Approach to the Study of Auditory
Coding. |
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2002 |
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NATO
Advanced Studies Institute in Learning Theory
and Practice, Leuven, Belgium. |
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1999 |
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Marine Biological Laboratories, WoodsHole MA. Summer institute: Methods in computational neuroscience. (with scholarship) | |
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1996-1997 |
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M.Sc. Computer sciences. (Summa Cum Laude) Tel Aviv university, The program for fostering the excellence. Advisors: Prof. Eytan Ruppin and Prof. Isaac Meilijson. Thesis title: Computational Aspects of Synaptic Pruning. | |
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1993-1996 |
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B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer sciences. (Summa Cum Laude) Tel Aviv university,The program for fostering the excellence. | |
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1996 |
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Dartmouth
College, NH.
McDonnell Summer institute in Cognitive Neuroscience (with scholarship)
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1994 |
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Weizmann
Institute, Brain research
center. Psychophysics of the visual system
laboratory. Summer student under the
supervision of Prof. D. Sagi. |
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Awards |
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2009-2011 |
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Alon fellowship
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2008 |
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Complexity fellowship (fund defaulted)
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2004 |
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Fullbright postdoctoral fellowship
(declined). |
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2000-2003 |
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Israeli-ministry
of science. Eshkol foundation. Three years
research grant for PhD students. |
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2001-2002 |
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Intel-Dean
prize for outstanding PhD research. |
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1999 |
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Wolf
foundation grant for PhD students. |
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1998-2000 |
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The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Full Ph.D. scholarship and stipend. |
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1997 |
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Tel-Aviv
University, School of Mathematical
Sciences. Prize for excellent M.Sc. thesis. |
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1997,2003 |
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Weizmann Institute,
The Aharon Katzir Center, Training grant for
M.Sc. (1997) and PhD (2003) students. |
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1996 |
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Benin
Foundation, Scholarship for excellence. |
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1993-1996 |
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Tel-Aviv
University, The Interdisciplinary
Program for Fostering the Excellence. Four
year merit based scholarship and stipend. |
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Professional activities
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Reviewer, Journals |
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J. Machine Learning Research, Machine learning journal,
Neural Computation,
IEEE-Transactions on Neural networks,
IEEE-Transactions on Pat. Rec.
Information Systems,
Network: Computaion in neural networks,
Genome Biology,
BMC bioinformatics,
BMC Neuroscience,
PLoS Comp Biology
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Reviewer, Conferences |
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NIPS, ICML, CNS, UAI, AISTAT, IJCAI, AAAI, RECOMB, PSB
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Organizer |
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NIPS computational biology workshop, 2004, 2006
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Editor |
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BMC Bioinformatics special issue of the NIPS computational
biology workshop, 2004, 2006 |
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Teaching
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1999-2003 |
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The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Center for
Neural Computation. Teaching assistance
(frontal lectures) in a graduate course:
Information, Computation and Learning |
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2000 |
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Tel-Aviv
University, Computational Neuroscience
group. Mini-course on fundamentals of
information theory |
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1996 |
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Tel-Aviv
University, Dept of Physiology and
Pharmacology. Teaching assistance in the
graduate course: "Computational modeling in
neural systems". |
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