Education

• PhD, Industrial Engineering in Intelligent Systems track, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• MSc, Industrial Engineering in Information Systems track, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• BEdTech, Electrical Education, ORT Academic College in Jerusalem

Research Interests

• Machine and Computer Vision
• Robotics
• Tele-operations
• Human Computer Interaction
• Assistive Technologies and Health Support Systems
• Deep Learning in Machine Vision and Robotics

Publications

Awards

• Best Paper Award, Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), 2025
• James H. and Barbara H. Greene Professor, Purdue University, 2024
• Best Paper Award, Co-Authored with Dr Denny Yu and student HFES, 2021
• Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award, Co-Authored with Dr Denny Yu and student RO-MAN, 2021
• University Faculty Scholar, Purdue University, 2020
• Faculty Inventor, Purdue University, 2020
• Outstanding Paper Award, AE-CAI Workshop as part of MICCAI, 2020
• Best Paper Award, HFES, 2020
• Distinguished Speaker, ACM 2018-2021
• James A. & Sharon M. Tompkins Rising Star Professorship, 2018
• Best Paper Award, IMAWM, Co-authored with Postdoc, 2018
• Best Paper Award, IRIACV, Co-authored with Student, 2017
• Fullbright U.S. Scholar, 2016
• Helmsley Senior Scientist Fellow, 2015
• Best Poster Presentation Award, AAAI, 2015
• IEEE Presentation Award, IEEE, Spring Section Conference, 2013
• AFOSR Young Investigator Program, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2013
• SFFP Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Air Force, 2012
• Best Paper Award Finalist, Co-Authored with Student, IEEE SMC, 2011
• National Research Council (NRC) Associateship Program Award, 2008