WINNERS
| NAME | ACADEMIC INSTITUTION | FACULTY / DEPARTMENT | STUDIES LEVEL | SUPERVISORS | CONFERENCE NAME | DATE | PRESENTATION TITLE | CONFERENCE REPORT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avital Angel | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Pnina Plaut | AESOP Annual Congress 2024 | Jul 2024 | From Data to Design: Using Mobile App Data and Machine Learning Techniques for Street-Level Walkability Assessment | Avital Angel’s report |
| Avital Shamir | Tel Aviv University | Department of Industrial Engineering | PhD | Mor Kaspi | TSL 2024: 11th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop | Sep 2024 | A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Lead Vehicle Routing in a Semi-Autonomous Last-Mile Transportation System | Avital Shamir’s report |
| Chebe Polycap Chesifu | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Karel Martens | The 17th International NECTAR Conference | Jul 2024 | Urban Roads: Enablers or Barriers to Walking? Insights From Kigali, Rwanda | Chebe Polycap Chesifu’s report |
| FelixTener | Haifa University | Sciences / Department of Information Systems | PhD | Joel Lanir | The 16th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications | Sept 2024 | Towards Seamless Human-Agent Interaction: Exploring Novel Paradigms for Teleoperation of Autonomous Agents | Felix Tener’s report |
| Gabriel Deza | Tel Aviv University | Industrial Engineering Department | PhD | Tal Raviv and Michal Tzur | TSL 2024: 11th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop | Sep 2024 | Line Network Design in Hyper-Connected Networks with Loading and Unloading Times | Gabriel Deza’s report |
| Ilana Har-Tal | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Karel Martens | The 17th International NECTAR Conference | Jul 2024 | Measuring Travel Problems: Towards a More Robust Measurement Tool | Ilana Har-Tal’s report |
| Julius Jandl | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering | PhD | Sabrina Spatari and Daniel Orenstein | The 15th International Sustainability Transitions Conference | Jun 2024 | Urban Energy Transition for Solar Mobility - A Holistic Implication Modeling Framework | Julius Jandl’s report |
| Michelle Specktor | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Civil and Environmental Engineering - Transportation | PhD | Yoram Shiftan | The 17th International NECTAR Conference | Jul 2024 | E-Scooter Traffic Effects on Pedestrians’ Stress | Michelle Specktor’s report |
| Noam Katzir | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Civil and Environmental Engineering - Transportation | PhD | Yoram Shiftan | The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 | Aug 2024 | Inclusive Mobility as a Service (MaaS): How Can Emerging Transport Technologies Increase Mobility Inclusiveness? | Noam Katzir’s report |
| Omer Dilian | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Karel Martens and Nadav Davidovitch | The 17th International NECTAR Conference | Jul 2024 | When There’s No Way Left to Go: A Qualitative Examination of Public Transport Use Cessation Among Older Adults | Omer Dilian’s report |
| Omri Isac | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | School of Engineering and Computer Science | PhD | Guy Katz | 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) | Sep 2024 | Robustness Assessment of a Runway Object Classifier for Safe Aircraft Taxiing | Omri Isac’s report |
| Rotem Zohar | Tel Aviv University | Department of Industrial Engineering | Master | Mor Kaspi | The 33rd European Conference on Operational Research | Jun 2024 | The Dynamic Electric Dial a Ride on a Fixed Circuit | Rotem Zohar’s report |
| Syeda Mushrifa Zahan | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering | PhD | Dario Dekel | Electrochemistry 2024 | Sep 2024 | Investigating the Performance of Completely PGM-Free Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell in Ambient Air | Syeda Mushrifa Zahan’s report |
| Tal Arkushin | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Civil and Environmental Engineering - Transportation | PhD | Yoram Shiftan | The 17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research | Jul 2024 | Factors Affecting Passenger Perception of and Satisfaction with Public Transport Level of Service | Tal Arkushin’s report |
| Tomer Raviv | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Electrical and Computer Engineering | PhD | Nir Shlezinger | IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2024) | Sept 2024 | Multi-Frequency Upper Mid-Band Localization | Tomer Raviv’s report |
| Zhengrong Li | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Karel Martens | The 17th International NECTAR Conference | Jul 2024 | Can Anonymous GPS Movement Data Provide Insight into People’s Mobility Problems? A First Exploration | Zhengrong Li’s report |