WINNERS
| NAME | ACADEMIC INSTITUTION | FACULTY / DEPARTMENT | STUDIES LEVEL | SUPERVISORS | CONFERENCE NAME | DATE | PRESENTATION TITLE | CONFERENCE REPORT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrey Vulfovich | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | PhD | Prof. Alon Kuperman | The 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2025) | Oct 2025 | Attaining Arbitrary Load Independent Voltage Gain and Minimizing Inverter VA Rating in S(C)-S(C) Compensated Wireless Power Transfer Links | |
| Avishag Boker | University of Haifa | Information Systems | PhD | Prof. Joel Lanir | CHItaly 2025 - 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter | Oct 2025 | A Taxonomy for the Design of External Human-Machine Interfaces for Last-Mile Delivery Robots | |
| Gabriel Deza | Tel Aviv University | Industrial Engineering | PhD | Prof. Tal Raviv | 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting | Oct 2025 | Exact formulations for Line Network Design Using Spatial Branch and Price | |
| Hannah Yair | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Computer Science | PhD | Prof. Shlomi Dolev | 7th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC 2025) | Jun 2025 | Agent-Assisted Traffic Policy Adaptation via Digital Twins | Hannah Yair’s report |
| Keren-Or Grinberg-Rosenbaum | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Transportation Engineering, Civil Engineering Faculty | PhD | Prof. Yoram Shiftan | Euro Working Group on Transportation 27th Annual Conference (EWGT 2025) | Sept 2025 | Data-Driven Insights for Resilient Public Transport Systems in the Age of Climate Change: Case Study of Road 2 | |
| Michael Shifrin | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | PhD | Prof. Joseph Tabrikian | The 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025) | Sept 2025 | Tangential Velocity Estimation Using Sparse Non-Coherent Automotive Radar Array | |
| Noam Gal | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Department of Geography | PhD | Dr. Amit Birenboim | GeoHB2025: 2nd International Workshop on Geo-spatial Computing for Understanding Human Behavior | Nov 2025 | Navigating Digital Cities: How Mobility and Spatial Context Mediate the Relationship Between Smartphone Fragmentation and Wellbeing | |
| Omri Sternberg | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics) | M.Sc. | Prof. Shai Arogeti | The 19th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA 2025) | Jun 2025 | Shared Steering Using Interpolating Control | |
| Razi Zoabi | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sustainable Mobility and Robust Transportation (T-SMART) Laboratory | PhD | Prof. Jack Haddad | The 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025) | Dec 2025 | Dynamic Time-Step Max-Pressure Controller Considering Phase-Switching Gaps for Signalized Networks | |
| Syeda Mushrifa Zahan | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Department of Chemical Engineering | PhD | Prof.Dario Dekel | The 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Proton Conductors (SSPC-22) | Sept 2025 | Platinum-Group-Metal Free Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells | |
| Yaniv Leuchter | Tel Aviv University | School of Industrial and Intelligent Systems Engineering | M.Sc. | Prof. Neta Rabin | 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting | Oct 2025 | Data-Driven Surrogate Simulation Optimization for Firefighting Resource Allocation |