Yoav Levine serves as co-Chief Scientist in AI21 Labs, an Israeli start up in the field of NLP.  His academic research revolves around theoretical and practical aspects of using deep learning for natural language processing. His PhD is from the Hebrew University, and for it he has received the Israeli Academy of Sciences Adams fellowship and the Blavatnik PhD Prize, awarded annually to the top 5 Israeli PhD theses in the field of computer science. Prior to his doctoral studies, Yoav earned an M.Sc. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Weizmann Institute, and a double B.Sc. in physics and electrical engineering (both summa cum laude) from Tel Aviv University, as a member of its Adi Lautman excellence program.

Gal Chechik is a Professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University and a director of AI at NVIDIA. His research spans learning in brains and machines,  focusing mainly on deep machine learning for perception and reasoning.
In 2018 Gal founded the NVIDIA research group in Israel, and has been leading it since. Prior to that, he was a staff research scientist at Google working on machine perception and search.  Gal is the author of ~120 refereed publications, and 50 patents, including publications in Nature Biotechnology, Cell and PNAS. His research was awarded best papers in ICML and NeurIPS. 
 

Raja Giryes is an associate professor in the school of electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University. His research interests lie at the intersection between signal and image processing and machine learning, and in particular, in deep learning, inverse problems, sparse representations, computational photography, and signal and image modeling. Raja received the EURASIP best P.hD. award, the ERC-StG grant, Maof prize for excellent young faculty (2016-2019), VATAT scholarship for excellent postdoctoral fellows (2014-2015), Intel Research and Excellence Award (2005, 2013), the Excellence in Signal Processing Award (ESPA) from Texas Instruments (2008) and was part of the Azrieli Fellows program (2010-2013). He is an associate editor in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Elsevier Pattern Recognition and has organized workshops and tutorials on deep learning theory in various conferences including ICML, CVPR, and ICCV. He serves as a consultant in various high-tech companies including Innoviz technologies and developed a technology that was used as the basis for the MultiVu technologies startup. 

Professor Noam Shomron is passionate about using basic science to advance better healthcare. Professor Shomron heads the Functional Genomic Team at the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University after training at MIT. He leads a multidisciplinary team of scientists that develops computational methods for parsing big data in the bio-medical field using Artificial Intelligence. Shomron applied for more than 30 patents and published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications on multiple genomic fields, including medicine, agriculture, and business. Shomron also leads the Tel Aviv University Innovation Lab (TILabs) on Digital Medicine. He is the Editor of ‘Deep Sequencing Data Analysis’ book (Springer, Edition I 2013, and II 2021); Director of ‘Rare-Genomics’ Israel (NPO); Academic Director of ‘ScienceAbroad’ (NPO); Co-founder of Variantyx, which provides clinical whole genome sequencing services; Co-founder of GotSho, a software platform for genetic and biomedical labs; Co-founder of IdentifAI that establishes noninvasive prenatal diagnostics at a single nucleotide resolution from a first-trimester blood test.

Or graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a B.Sc. in physics, mathematics, and computer science, before completing his Ph.D. in machine learning under the supervision of Prof. Amnon Shashua. His work ranges from fundamental theoretical questions in machine learning, to practical applications in various domains, including computer vision and natural language understanding. In 2021 he joined Caltech, working jointly with Prof. Anima Anandkumar and Prof. Garnet Chan on methods at the intersection of machine learning and quantum many-body problems.

Dr. Amichai Painsky is an Assistant Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of Tel Aviv University. Amichai received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University (2007), his Masters in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (2009) and his Ph.D. in Statistics from Tel Aviv University (2016). Following his graduation, Amichai joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral fellow (2019). Amichai’s research focuses on statistical inference and learning, and their connection to information theory.

Run:ai co-founder and CTO Ronen Dar was previously a research scientist at Bell Labs and has worked at Apple and in Intel in multiple R&D roles. As CTO, Ronen manages research and product roadmap for Run:ai, a startup he co-founded in 2018. Ronen is the co-author of many patents in the fields of storage, coding, and compression. Ronen received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tel Aviv University.
 
 

Ami is a research scientist in Meta’s Core Data Science team, where he works on financial fraud and risk problems. He holds a Ph.D. in EE from Tel Aviv University. Despite this, on too many occasions, he still gets mixed up between “concave” and “convex”.

As the Vice President and head of the Startup Division, Hanan Brand is responsible for government incentives and grants for hundreds of early-stage entrepreneurs and technology driven startups, using various incentive tools such as the Technological Incubator Program, the Technology Lab Program, the Seed Fund, Tnufa (PoC) Fund and more. Moreover, Hanan is in charge of human capital incentives and grants designed to help with the continued growth of the Israeli high-tech industry. He is also leading the National Climatech program aimed at promoting Technology and Innovation that help mitigate the various challenges posed by the Climate Crisis.  

Hanan's managing experience spans over 15 years in executive roles in the High-tech sector and Venture Capital Investment entities including: General Partner at Cornerstone Venture Partners, Board Member in companies such as DealHub, Axonize (acquired by Schneider), Texel (Acquired by DAZN) and more. Previously he served as a Senior Investment Manager at large VC and PE funds such as JVP and XT Holdings and was the Founder & Chairman of Made in Jerusalem. 

Hanan holds an MBA from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a BA in Finance and Political Science from the Hebrew University. He is also a Steering Committee member at the Azrieli College of Engineering.

Prof. Colin Price is a Professor in the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Tel Aviv University, and the university’s Head of the Climate Crisis Initiative (PlanNetZero).  He is a world known Atmospheric Physicist, specializing in the Earth's weather and climate, with a focus on thunderstorms, climate change and natural hazards.  He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1962.  After starting his university studies in South Africa, he transferred to Tel Aviv University in 1982 where he completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences.  He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University, New York, in 1993, while working at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, he returned to Israel and joined the faculty of Tel Aviv University in 1995.  He has published more than 150 scientific papers and has a team of 10+ graduate students and researchers working under his guidance on various scientific research projects.  
Website: https://www.flash.sites.tau.ac.il/ 
 

Prof. Ariel Porat was elected the ninth President of Tel Aviv University in May 2019. After receiving his LLB degree and direct JSD degree at TAU, he performed post-doctoral studies at Yale Law School. In 1990, he joined TAU’s Buchmann Faculty of Law, where he is the incumbent of the Alain Poher Chair in Private Law. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Prof. Porat's main research interests are torts, contract law and the economic analysis of the law, and he has published many books and articles in these areas. He served for 15 years as an Associate Member and Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago (2003-2019). He was also Visiting Professor at Stanford University, and at the Universities of New York, Columbia, Berkeley, Virginia and Toronto. He was a member of the Board of the American Law and Economics Association for three years, and is a member of the American Law Institute.
From 2002 to 2006, Prof. Porat served as Dean of the Buchmann Faculty of Law, during which period he introduced joint LLM programs together with the UC Berkeley and Northwestern University. He also founded an admittance program for students from Israel’s geographic and social periphery, which was initially at the Law Faculty and thereafter adopted throughout the University. Prior to his appointment as Dean, Prof. Porat was Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law (1997-2002), where he founded the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law, today ranked as one of the world's leading journals in the field of law theory.
Prof. Porat has been the recipient of numerous honors, among them the EMET Prize, Chesin Prize, Zeltner Prize and Zusman Prize.

As head of the Technological Infrastructure Division, Aviv Zeevi is responsible for generating collaborations between the industry and academia that create advanced technologies and innovative products; these collaborations strengthen the Israeli industry's long-term technological advantage in the fierce competition of international markets. 

Zeevi has vast experience in the field of technological developments, in developing online systems as well as training and simulation systems. In his most recent role he served as the head of the ICT department in the Israeli Research Directorate of the European Research Program. 

Zeevi has a PhD in Information Systems Management from the Tel Aviv University. He holds several additional degrees in Economics, Political Science and Management.

Jan is a highly skilled energy analyst with broad knowledge of energy, energy security, and digitalization issues. He currently works on digitalization in the Czech Republic electricity TSO ČEPS a.s., where he helps find solutions to the many challenges brought about by energy transformation and decentralization. Jan is very involved in RDI cooperation with other TSOs in his capacity as the convenor of Working Group “Digitalization and communication” under Europe’s TSO association, ENTSO-E. His former experience includes work as an energy policy analyst in the International Energy Agency, as an advisor to the World Energy Council or as a government officer with responsibilities in the area of national energy security.

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Before joining Tel Aviv University, he worked for four years at the Networking Center of Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ. He published seminal papers in the fields of caching, routing, IP hijack attacks, and network measurements. In recent years, he has been working on usage of AI to solve networking problems in the areas of traffic classification and detection of routing manipulations.