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" Article in TechRxiv (2021): Bareli, S., Geri, L., Nikulshin, Y., Nahum, O. E., Hadas, Y., Yeshurun, Y., Yaniv, E., and Wolfus, Sh., "Effect of Coil Dimensions on Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer for 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 | Article in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (Vol. 165, 2022): Geva, Sh., Fulman, N., and Ben-Elia, E., "Getting the prices right: Drivers' cruising choices in a serious parking 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. | Article in Accident Analysis & Prevention (Vol. 166, 2022): Zangi, N., Srour-Zreik, R., Ridel, D., Chassidim, H., and Borowsky, A., "Driver distraction and its effects on partially automated driving performance: A driving simulator study among young-experienced drivers" |
| Andrey Vulfovich | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | MSc | Prof. Alon Kuperman | Optimization of WPT Systems for Electrical Vehicles | Article in Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Energy Conference (ENERGYCON 2022): Vulfovich, A., Shalish, I., Kuperman, A., & Lineykin, S., "Similarity Between Photovoltaic and Thermoelectric Generator Equivalent Circuits" |
| 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? | Article in PLoS ONE (2023): Vertlib, Sh. R., Rosenzweig, S., Rubin, O. D., and Steren, A., "Are Car Safety Systems Associated with More Speeding Violations? Evidence from Police Records in Israel" The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Vertlib, Sh., Rubin, O., and Rosenzweig, S., "Can break-assistance systems increase 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 | Article in Environmental Pollution (Vol. 306, 2022): Steren, A., Rosenzweig, S., and Rubin, O. D., "Assessing the emission consequences of an energy rebound effect in private cars in Israel" The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Steren, A., Rubin, O., and Rosenzweig, S., "Policies promoting energy-efficient cars are not saving energy" |
| Guy Sa'ar | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | PhD | Meirav Zehavi | The Parameterized Complexity of Movement Problems | Article in Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2023): Gupta, S., Sa'ar, G., and Zehavi, M., "Collective Graph Exploration Parameterized by Vertex Cover" Article in Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2023): Gupta, S., Sa'ar, G., and Zehavi, M., "Drawn Tree Decomposition: New Approach for Graph Drawing 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" Article in Proceedings of the 8th Road Safety and Simulation International Conference (RSS 2022): Hochman, M., Parmet, Y., and Oron-Gilad, T., "Pedestrians' Understanding of a Fully Autonomous Vehicle's Intent to Stop: Utilizing Video-based Crossing Scenarios" The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Hochman, M., and Oron Gilad, T., "How presence of multiple autonomous vehicles affect pedestrians' crossing" |
| 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" Article in Theoretical Computer Science (Vol. 985, 2024): Rabinovich, D., Amir, M., and Bruckstein, A. M., "Optimally reordering mobile agents on parallel rows" Article on arXiv (2021): Rabinovich, D., Amir, M., and Bruckstein, A. M., "Optimal Physical Sorting of Mobile Agents" |
| 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 | The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Etzioni, Sh., Daziano, R., Ben-Elia, E., and Shiftan, Sh., "Preferences for Shared Automated Vehicles: A Hybrid Latent Class Modeling Approach" |
| 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 Cities 2021: E. Soh and K. Martens, "Value dimensions of autonomous vehicle implementation through the Ethical Delphi" Article in Public Management Review (Vol. 26, 2024): Soh, E., and Martens, K., "Public values in the socio-technical construction of autonomous vehicle futures" The research was presented at the 1st Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Annual Conference 2021: Soh, E., "Public values in the socio-technical construction of autonomous vehicle futures: the case of Israel" |
| 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" |