ISTRC CALL FOR PRIZES 2026

WINNERS

ISTRC_CallForPrizes_2026_Winners.xlsx
NAMEACADEMIC INSTITUTIONFACULTY/DEPARTMENTISTRC PRIZESUPERVISORSRESEARCH TITLEOUTCOME
Hodaya Shirazie and Shulamit Mor JossefShamoon College of EngineeringSoftware Engineering DepartmentA1: Excellent Project / Seminar Prize for Bachelor’s Students - 1st PrizeDr. Lior AronshtamCOLLECTA - A Smart System for Managing and Optimizing the Collection of Food Donations for Social Organizations
Itay DabushBen-Gurion University of the NegevDepartment of Management and Public PolicyB2: Best Refereed Paper Prize for PhD Students - 1st PrizeProf. Chen CohenHybrids in the Middle: PHEVs as Bridge or Lock-In to Policy Balance
Jawad SolimanTechnion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMechanical EngineeringC3: Student Team Competition Prize (more than 10 students)Prof. Leonid TartakovskyFormula Technion
Maayan GadishTechnion - Israel Institute of TechnologyElectrical and Computer EngineeringA1: Excellent Project / Seminar Prize for Bachelor’s Students - 2nd PrizeDr. Kiril SoloveyEffective Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Routing with Dynamic Flow Modeling
Nate RothschildTechnion - Israel Institute of TechnologyElectrical and Computer EngineeringB1: Best Refereed Paper Prize for Master’s StudentsProf. Avi Mendelson and Prof. Chaim BaskinR3 : Reconstruction, Raw, and Rain: Deraining Directly in the Bayer Domain
Noam GalHebrew University of JerusalemDepartment of Spatial Science, Social Science FacultyB2: Best Refereed Paper Prize for PhD Students - 3rd PrizeProf. Amit BirenboimMental Health in a Digitally Fragmented World: Exploring Negative and Positive Associations Across Spatial Contexts and Gender
Omer DilianTechnion - Israel Institute of TechnologyArchitecture and Town PlanningB2: Best Refereed Paper Prize for PhD Students - 2nd PrizeProf. Karel Martens and Prof. Nadav DavidovitchPublic Transport Use Cessation and Age-Related Functional Decline: A Quasi-Causal Analysis Using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Oren BorgenichtBen-Gurion University of the NegevDepartment of Industrial Engineering and ManagementA1: Excellent Project / Seminar Prize for Bachelor’s Students - 3rd PrizeDr. Adir EvenOptimization of Light Rail Priority at Signalized Intersections
Yftach GilAfeka College of EngineeringDepartment of Intelligent SystemsA2: Excellent Project / Seminar Prize for Non-Research Master’s StudentsProf. Erel Avineri and Dr. Yehudit ApersteinDeep Learning Based Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Urban Environment Using Time-To-Collision and Crossing Zones Indicators