WINNERS
| Name | Academic Institution | Faculty / Department | Studies Level | Supervisors | Research Title | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adiel Ashrov | The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem | The School of Computer Science and Engineering | PhD | Prof. Guy Katz | Guarding Neural Networks using Scenario-Based Modeling | Article in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering - MODELSWARD 2023: Ashrov, A. and Katz, G., "Enhancing Deep Learning with Scenario-Based Override Rules: A Case Study" The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Ashrov, A., and Katz, G., " Guarding deep neural networks using scenario-based modeling" |
| Amit Katav | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Mechanical Engineering | PhD | Prof. Amir Shapiro | Precise Transportation System and Dynamic Modeling of Cable-Suspended Load Carried by Drone | |
| Avital Shamir | Tel Aviv University | Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering | PhD | Dr. Mor kaspi | A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Lead Vehicle Routing in a Semi-Autonomous Last-Mile Transportation System | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Shamir, A., and Kaspi, M., "A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Lead Vehicle Routing in a Semi-Autonomous Last-Mile Transportation System" |
| Ben Dlugatch | Bar-Ilan university | Chemistry | PhD | Prof. Doron Aurbach | Studies of Electrolyte Solutions for Nonaqueous Mg Electrochemistry | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Dlugatch, B., "Studies of Electrolyte Solutions for Nonaqueous Mg Electrochemistry" |
| Edan Habler | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Faculty of Engineering Sciences / Information Systems Engineering | PhD | Prof. Asaf Shabtai | Detecting attacks on civilian aircraft | Article in ACM Computing Surveys (Vol. 56, 2023): Habler, E., Bitton, R., & Shabtai, A., "Assessing Aircraft Security: A Comprehensive Survey and Methodology for Evaluation" |
| Elad Ballas | Bar-Ilan University | Chemistry | Master | Prof. Doron Aurbach and Dr. Netanel Shpigel | Development of a static rechargeable aqueous zinc bromide batteries (ZnBr2) for electric urban transportation. | |
| Felix Tener | University of Haifa | Social Sciences / Information Systems | PhD | Prof. Joel Lanir | Design of tele-assistance user interfaces (UIs) for command and control of remote autonomous vehicles (AVs) | Article in Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '23 Adjunct): Tener F. and Lanir, J., "Design of a High-Level Guidance User Interface for Teleoperation of Autonomous Vehicles" Article in Proceedings of the Workshop on Intervening, Teaming, Delegating co-located with the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023): Tener F. and Lanir, J., "Toward the Design of a Tele-assistance User Interface for Autonomous Vehicles" Article in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Vol. 83, 2024): Tener, F. and Lanir, J., "Investigating intervention road scenarios for teleoperation of autonomous vehicles" The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Tener, F., and Lanir, J., "Investigating Intervention Road Scenarios for Teleoperation of Autonomous Vehicles" |
| Gadi Perl | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Federmann Cyber Security Research Center - Cyber Law Program | PhD | Prof. Alon Harel | Regulating Artificial Intelligence | |
| Gal Neria | Tel Aviv University | Industrial Engineering | PhD | Prof. Michal Tzur | Dynamic routing to achieve efficient and fair distribution | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Neria, G., and Tzur, M., "Dynamic resource allocation to achieve efficiency and fairness" |
| Gal Shachar | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Civil Engineering / Transportation | Master | Prof. Shlomo Bekhor | Investigating route choice behavior of public transport passengers | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Shachar, G., and Bekhor, Sh., "Evaluating Public Transport Choice Set Generation using Trajectory Data collected from Household Travel Survey" |
| Gil Lifshits | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Software and Information Systems Engineering | Master | Dr. Gilad Katz | Novel distributed learning-based approach for joint navigation in local environments | |
| Golan Ben-Dor | Tel Aviv University | School of Geoscience, Department of Geography and Human Environment | PhD | Prof. Itzhak Benenson and Prof. Eran Ben-Elia | Dynamic Metropolitan Simulation of Shared Automated Vehicles in a Multi-modal Transportation System | Article in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (Volume 183, 2024): Ben-Dor, G., Ogulenko, A., Klein, I., Ben-Ilia, E., and Benenson, I., "Simulation-based policy evaluation of monetary car driving disincentives in Jerusalem" Article in Elsevier Procedia Computer Science (Vol. 220, 2023): Ben-Dor, G., Ogulenko, A., and Benenson, I., "Possible Congestion-Mitigating Carrot-and-Stick Transport Policies for Jerusalem" |
| Hannah Yair | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Computer Science | PhD | Prof. Shlomi Dolev and Prof. Ehud Gudes | Automatic Real Time Platoon Formation Using the Road Graph | Article in SN Computer Science 2024: Yair, H., Dolev, S. and Gudes, E., "Automatic Real-Time Platoon Formation Using the Road Graph" Article presented in the Poster Session of 5th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC 23): Dolev, S., Gudes, E. and Yair, H., "Real Time Scheduling Autonomous Vehicles at Intersections" |
| Hilah Clara Honig | Bar-Ilan University | Chemistry | PhD | Prof. Lior Elbaz | Activity and Stability of Molecular Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Hydrogen Fuel cell | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Honig, H. C., and Elbaz, L., "Degradation Mechanisms of Platinum Group Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyst based on Iron Phthalocyanine" |
| John Douglin | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Chemical Engineering | PhD | Prof. Dario Dekel | High-temperature anion-exchange membrane fuel cells | Article in Chemistry-Sustainability-Energy-Materials (ChemSusChem): Douglin, J. C., Vijaya Sankar, K., Biancolli, A. L. G., Santiago, E. I., Tsur, Y. and Dekel, D. R., "Quantifying the Resistive Losses of the Catalytic Layers in Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells" Article in Energies 2023: Singh, R.K., Douglin, J.C., Jiang, L., Yassin, K., Brandon, S. and Dekel, D.R., "CoOx-Fe3O4/N-rGO Oxygen Reduction Catalyst for Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells" Article in ACS Catalysis 2023: Wierzbicki, S., Douglin, J. C., Singh, R. K., Dekel, D. R. and Kruczała, K., "Operando EPR Study of Radical Formation in Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells" Article in Small (Vol. 20, 2024): Douglin, J. C., Sekar, A., Singh, R. K., Chen, Z., Li, J., and Dekel, D. R., "Hydrogenated TiO2 Carbon Support for PtRu Anode Catalyst in High-Performance Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells" Article in ACS Catalysis (Vol. 14, 2024): Sajjad, U., Sarapuu, A., Douglin, J. C., Kikas, A., Treshchalov, A., Käärik, M., ... & Tammeveski, K., "Lignin-Derived Precious Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Application" Article at SSRN (2024): Raut, A., Fang, H., Lin, Y. C., Fu, S., Rahman, F., Sprouster, D., Bhardwaj, D., Isseroff, R., Li, T., Douglin, J. C., Lilloja, J., Tammeveski, K., Liu, P., Rafailovich, M., and Dekel, D. R., "The Impact of of Graphene-Based Materials on Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells" Article in Nature Energy (Vol. 8, 2023): Douglin, J. C., Zamora Zeledón, J. A., Kreider, M. E., Singh, R. K., Stevens, M. B., Jaramillo, T. F., and Dekel, D. R., "High-performance ionomerless cathode anion-exchange membrane fuel cells with ultra-low-loading Ag–Pd alloy electrocatalysts" Article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Vol. 62, 2023): Raut, A., Fang, H., Lin, Y. C., Fu, S., Sprouster, D., Shimogawa, R., Douglin, J. C., ... & Dekel, D. R., "Migration and Precipitation of Platinum in Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells" |
| Keren Or Grinberg Rosenbaum | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Civil and Environmental Engineering | PhD | Prof. Yoram Shiftan and Dr. Bat Hen Nahmias-Biran | Modeling a new data-based framework for an improved smart transportation operation | |
| Michal Mizrahi | Bar-Ilan University | Chemistry | Master | Prof. Lior Elbaz | Electrolyzers for a Clean Hydrogen transportation future | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Mizrahi, M., and Moschkowitsch, W., "Development of Transition Metal Oxides for Oxygen Evolution Reaction" |
| Moran Barenboim | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Technion Autonomous Systems Program | PhD | Prof. Vadim Indelman | Qualitative belief space planning with guarantees | Article in Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022): Barenboim, M. and Indelman, V., "Adaptive Information Belief Space Planning" Article in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2023: Barenboim, M., Shienman, M. and Indelman, V., "Monte Carlo Planning in Hybrid Belief POMDPs" |
| Nir Dgani | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Electrical and Computer Engineering | PhD | Dr. Igal Bilik and Prof. Yossi Yovel | Studying Multi agent system using evolutionary models | |
| Ron Michal | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Software and Information Systems Engineering | Master | Dr. Rami Puzis | Polytope partitioning for efficient airspace reservation | |
| Sanketh Vedula | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | The Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science | PhD | Prof. Alexander Bronstein and Dr. Michael Zibulevsky | Vector quantile autoregression for multivariate forecasting | Article in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023): Rosenberg, A. A., Vedula, S., Romano, Y., & Bronstein, A. M., "Fast Nonlinear Vector Quantile Regression" |
| Shachar Eizen | Tel Aviv University | Industrial Engineering and Management | Master | Prof. Michal Tzur and Prof. Tal Raviv | Dynamic parcel routing in hyper-connected networks | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Eizen, Sh., Tzur, M., and Raviv, T., "Dynamic parcel routing in hyper-connected networks" |
| Shimon Regev | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Department of Mechanical Engineering | PhD | Dr. Shai Arogeti and Dr. Achiya Elyasaf | Multi-Objective Control Strategies for Non-cooperating Autonomous Robots | |
| Tzvika Geft | Tel Aviv University | Blavatnik School of Computer Science | PhD | Prof. Dan Halperin | Scalable Smart Mobility through Improved Motion Coordination along Fixed Paths | Article in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) 2024: Kottinger, J., Geft, Tz., Almagor, Sh., Salzman, O., and Lahijanian, M., "Introducing Delays in Multi-Agent Path Finding" Article in Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS '23): Abrahamsen M., Geft T., Halperin D., and Ugav B., "Coordination of Multiple Robots along Given Paths with Bounded Junction Complexity" Article in Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search: Tzvika Geft, "Fine-Grained Complexity Analysis of Multi-Agent Path Finding on 2D Grids" The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Abrahamsen, M., Geft, Tz., Halperin, D., and Ugav, B., "Coordination of Mobile Agents along Given Paths with Bounded Junction Complexity" |
| Yaara Tsairi | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning | PhD | Prof. Karel Martens | Justice and equity in employer policy towards employee transport | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Tsairi, Y., and Martens, K., "Workplace responsibility for employee mobility? An analysis of the scope of responsibility in the CSR/ESG standards " |
| Yazan Safadi | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering | PhD | Prof. Jack Haddad and Prof. Nikolas Geroliminis | Traffic Flow Modelling and Control of Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams for Low-Altitude Air City Transport | Article in Proceedings of the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC): Safadi, Y., Geroliminis, N. and Haddad, J., "Aircraft Departures Management for Low Altitude Air City Transport based on Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram" Poster presented in the 2023 TRB Annual Meeting The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Safadi, Y., Geroliminis, N. and Haddad, J., " Modeling and Control for Low-altitude Air City Transport Systems" Article in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 2023 : Safadi, Y., Fu, R., Quan, Q., and Haddad, J., "Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams for Low-Altitude Air city Transport" |
| Yeela Persky | Bar-Ilan University | Chemistry | Master | Prof. Lior Elbaz | Use of aerogels as catalysts of oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells | Article in ACS Catalysis 2023: Persky, Y., Kielesiński, Ł., Reddy, S.N., Zion, N., Friedman, A., Honig, H.C., Koszarna, B., Zachman, M.J., Grinberg, I., Gryko, D.T. and Elbaz, L., "Biomimetic Fe–Cu Porphyrrole Aerogel Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction" The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Persky, Y., and Elbaz, L., "The effect of cross-linker length and the pore size distribution on the activity in porphyrin aerogels" Article in Nanoscale (Vol. 16, 2024): Persky, Y., Yurko, Y., Snitkoff-Sol, R. Z., Zion, N., and Elbaz, L., "Tuning the performance of Fe–porphyrin aerogel-based PGM-free oxygen reduction reaction catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells" |
| Yishay Shapira | Tel Aviv university | Engineering / Department of Industrial Engineering | Master | Dr. Mor Kaspi | Public Transit Enhanced Robotic Delivery Services | The research was presented at the 3rd ISTRC Annual & Students Conference 2023: Shapira, Y., and Kaspi, M., "A Column Generation Approach for Public Transit Enhanced Robotic Delivery Services" |
| Yoad Guetta | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Faculty of Engineering Sciences / Mechanical Engineering | PhD | Prof. Amir Shapiro | On-Board Physical Batteries Replacement System and Procedure for Drones During Flight | Article in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2022: Guetta, Y., and Shapiro, A., "On-Board Physical Battery Replacement System and Procedure for Drones During Flight" The research was presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022): Guetta, Y., and Shapiro, A., "On-Board Physical Battery Replacement System and Procedure for Drones During Flight" |
