WINNERS
| NAME | ACADEMIC INSTITUTION | STUDIES LEVEL | SUPERVISORS | RESEARCH TITLE | OUTCOME |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sahar Bareli | Bar-Ilan University | MSc | Prof. Yosef Yeshurun | Improved Electromagnetic Coupling and Energy Transfer in Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles | The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Shuki, W., Sahar, B., Lidor, G., and Yeshurun, Y., "Optimization of Coil Configuration for Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles" |
| Mor Collins | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Dr. Eran Ben-Elia | Social Adoption of The Shared Autonomous Vehicle in a Continuous and Multiplayer Game-based Experiment | |
| Alon Zolfi | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Prof Asaf Shabtai | Adversarial attacks against object detectors in autonomous driving domain. | Article in “2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition” Proceedings: A. Zolfi et al., "The Translucent Patch: A Physical and Universal Attack on Object Detectors" |
| Sharon Geva | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Dr. Eran Ben-Elia | Understanding urban parking choices with a Serious Game | |
| Eliya Tzarfaty | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Dr. Eran Ben-Elia | Geospatial Data Fusion of Public Transit Performance and its Travelers' Satisfaction using Tweets from San Francisco | The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Tzarfaty, E., Ben Elia, E., and Vilenchik, D., "Extracting Public Transportation Satisfaction Using Twitter: A Location-Aware Method" |
| Noa Zangi | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Dr. Avinoam Borowsky | Distraction and its effects on partially automated simulated driving performance. | |
| Andrey Vulfovich | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Prof. Alon Kuperman | Optimization of WPT Systems for Electrical Vehicles | |
| Asaf Sonis | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Prof. Michael Segal | VANET Clustering of Autonomous Vehicles on Highways. | |
| Shani Rima Vertlib | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Dr. Ofir D. Rubin and Dr. Stav Rosenzwieg | Do safety systems encourage careless driving? | |
| Joshua Shay Kricheli | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Prof. Gera Weiss and Dr. Shai Arogeti | Design Methods for Multi Objective and Patient Control | Article in the “29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2021” Proceedings: J. S. Kricheli et al., "Composition of Dynamic Control Objectives Based on Differential Games" |
| Yue Xiao | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | MSc | Prof. Yoram Shiftan and Prof. Avi Parush | The impact of driving styles on Automated Vehicles acceptance | |
| Rasha Bowirrat | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | MSc | Prof. Karel Martens and Prof. Yoram Shiftan | To what extent can big data be used to identify travel problems? | |
| Ori Sztyglic | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | MSc | Vadim Indelman | Online POMDP Planning via Simplification | |
| Shir Tavor | Tel Aviv University | MSc | Prof. Tal Raviv | Balance of autonomous vehicle car sharing systems | The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Tavor, S., and Raviv, T., "Balancing Autonomous Vehicle Car-Sharing Systems" |
| Ruth Mundel | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | MSc | Prof. Noam Nisan and Moshe Babaioff | Bounding Price of Anarchy in Shared-Ride Transportation Models. | Article in the “International Conference on Web and Internet Economics WINE 2021” Proceedings: M. Babaioff, R. Mundel, N. Nisan, "Beyond Pigouvian Taxes: A Worst Case Analysis" |
| Yoad Guetta | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | PhD | Prof. Amir Shapiro | On-Board Physical Batteries Replacement System and Procedure for Drones During Flight”. | |
| Aviv Steren | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | PhD | Dr. Ofir D. Rubin and Dr. Stav Rosenzwieg | The effect of policies designed to reduce energy demand of private transportation on consumer behavior and driving safety | |
| Guy Sa'ar | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | PhD | Meirav Zehavi | The Parameterized Complexity of Movement Problems | |
| Oksana Sabinik (Pecherski) | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | PhD | Prof. Hillel Bar-Gera | Demand Responsive Transit Services | The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Sabinik, O., Raviv, T., and Bar-Gera, H., "Partially Flexible Demand Responsive Transit Service" |
| Michal Hochman | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | PhD | Prof. Tal Oron-Gilad | Designing the interaction between pedestrian and autonomous vehicle | Article in Frontiers in Psychology Dec. 2020 Human-Media Interaction: M. Hochman, Y. Parmet, T. Oron-Gilad, " Pedestrians’ Understanding of a Fully Autonomous Vehicle’s Intent to Stop: A Learning Effect Over Time" |
| Guy Cohen-Lazry | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | PhD | Prof. Tal Oron-Gilad | Developing Interventions to Reduce Drivers’ Discomfort When Using Autonomous Vehicles | |
| Edan Habler | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | PhD | Prof Asaf Shabtai | Detecting attacks on civilian aircraft using the ADS-B protocol By applying Deep Learning algorithms On transmitted traffic | |
| Michael Amir | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | PhD | Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein | Natural Algorithms and Mobile-Robotic Swarms | Article in Entropy: M. Amir, N. Agmon and A. M. Bruckstein, "A Locust-Inspired Model of Collective Marching on Rings" |
| Shelly Ben Zvi Etzioni | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | PhD | Prof. Yoram Shiftan and Dr. Eran Ben Elia | A robust approach to model users’ preferences of shared automated vehicles using stated preferences and serious games | |
| Emily Yongxu Soh | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | PhD | Prof. Karel Martens | Public values in the socio-technical construction of autonomous vehicles | Article in ELSEVIER Cites 2021: E. Soh and K. Martens, "Value dimensions of autonomous vehicle implementation through the Ethical Delphi" |
| Golan Ben-Dor | Tel Aviv University. | PhD | Prof. Itzhak Benenson and Dr. Eran Ben Elia | Dynamic Metropolitan Simulation of Shared Automated Vehicles in a Multimodal Transportation System | The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Ben-Dor, G., Klein, I., Ogulenko, A., Bluer, E., Zananiri, I., Ben-Elia, E., and Benenson, I., "Simulating Shared (Autonomous) Demand-Responsive Transport: A Case Study of Jerusalem" |
| Rui Yao | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | PhD | Professor Bekhor Shlomo | An integrated model for ride-sharing systems that considers endogenous demand and travel times | The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Yao, R., and Bekhor, S., "A Ridesharing Simulation Platform that Considers Dynamic Supply-Demand Interactions" |