WINNERS
| NAME | ACADEMIC INSTITUTION | FACULTY / DEPARTMENT | STUDIES LEVEL | SUPERVISORS | CONFERENCE NAME | DATE | PRESENTATION TITLE | CONFERENCE REPORT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amit Milstein | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Electrical and Computers Engineering | PhD | Dr. Nir Shlezinger | 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025) | Apr 2025 | Learned Approximated Optimization for Rapid Law-Complexity Hybrid Beamforming Design | |
| Arbel Yaniv | Tel Aviv University | Faculty of Engineering, Department of physical electronics | PhD | Dr. Yuval Beck and Prof. Raja Giryes | 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation Electric Power Summit | Jan 2025 | Explanatory Analysis and Machine Learning for City-Scale EV Charging Demand Prediction: A Case Study on Boulder, Colorado | Arbel Yaniv's report |
| Chebe Polycap Chesifu | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Prof. Karel Martens | Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting 2025 | Jan 2025 | Urban Roads: Enablers or Barriers to Walking? Insights from Kigali, Rwanda | Chebe Polycap Chesifu's report |
| Dor Patel | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | M.Sc. | Prof. Joseph Tabrikian and Dr. Igal Bilik | 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025) | Apr 2025 | Adaptive Waveform Design for Cognitive MIMO ISAC | |
| Eyal Zeltzer | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | M.Sc. | Prof. Tirza Routtenberg | 59th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems | Mar 2025 | Bayesian Graph Signal Estimation in Nonlinear GSP Models with Dynamic Networks | |
| Gabriel Dadashev | Tel Aviv University | The Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences | PhD | Dr. Bat Hen Nahmias Biran | The Transportation Research Board (2025 TRB Annual Meeting) | Jan 2025 | Optimizing Automated Mobility on-Demand Operation with Markovian Model: A Case Study of the Tel-Aviv Metropolis in 2040 | Gabriel Dadashev's report |
| Gal Neria | Tel Aviv University | Industrial Engineering Department | PhD | Prof. Michal Tzur | The 12th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN XII) | Jun 2025 | A General Optimization Framework for Dynamic Two-Stage Order Fulfillment Problems | |
| Lital Dabush | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Phd | Prof. Tirza Routtenberg | 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025) | Apr 2025 | Verifying the Smoothness of Graph Signals: A Graph Signal Processing Approach | |
| Michelle Specktor | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | Civil and Environmental Engineering - Transportation | PhD | Prof. Yoram Shiftan | Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting 2025 | Jan 2025 | Exploring the Emotional Dimension of Pedestrian Near E-Scooter Traffic: A Comparative Study of Copenhagen and Tel Aviv | Michelle Specktor's report |
| Omer Dilian | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Prof. Karel Martens and Prof. Nadav Davidovitch | European Public Health Conference | Nov 2024 | A Systematic Review of Health Outcomes of Public Transport Use by Older Adults | Omer Dilian's report |
| Wambũi Kariũki | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Prof. Karel Martens | 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting | Apr 2025 | Assessing the Intersection of Gender and Dignity in Popular Transport |