IEEE Israel Section

The 4th Annual & Students Conference of the Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center
2024-06-27 18:07 - 18:09 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Bldg: 70, Ben gurion University, BEER-SHEVA, Southern District, Israel, 84105
Resilience to Disruption and Disaster
The 4th Annual & Students Conference of the Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center
Co-sponsored by: ISTRC, BGU
Agenda:
Program Overview
The conference will be held at Senate Hall, Building 71
09:15-09:45 Registration
10:45-11:15 Greetings and Intro
– Prof. Raz Jelinek, VP and Dean for Research and Development
– Tchiya Allon, General Manager of The Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center
– Prof. Eran Ben-Elia, Head of BGU CITI Center for Intelligent Transportation & Innovation
10:15-11:15 Keynote Prof. Yoram Shiftan – ISTRC head
From restoration to resilience – can technology recover transportation systems?
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Session 1- Parallel Sessions
Autonomous Vehicles
Barkan Hall(building 70)
Chair – Prof. Igal Bilik
Public Transport & shared mobility
Senate Hall(building 71)
Chair – Prof. Eran Ben-Elia
13:00-14:00 Lunch & Formula Exposition
13:45-14:45 Poster Session
14:45-15:30 Session 2 – Parallel Sessions
Algorithms, optimization, and big
data
Barkan Hall(building 70)
Chair – Prof. Hillel Bar-Gerahttps://lp.vp4.me/tzw8
Road users: safety, health & ethics
Senate Hall(building 71)
Chair – Prof. Tal Oron Gilad
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:50 Panel Discussion – Resilience to Disruption Is smart transportation the solution?
Prof. David Shinar, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
16:50-17:15 Prizes and Concluding Remarks
Prof. Eran Ben-Elia, Head of BGU CITI Center for Intelligent Transportation & Innovation
Bldg: 70, Ben gurion University, BEER-SHEVA, Southern District, Israel, 84105

Webinar - Universal Chiplet Interconnect ExpressTM (UCIeTM): An Open Interconnect Standard for Innovations On-Package
2024-08-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/430368
RE: Monthly webinar – Universal Chiplet Interconnect ExpressTM (UCIeTM): An Open Interconnect Standard for Innovations On-Package
Speaker: Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Senior Fellow, co-GM Memory and I/O Technologies, Intel
Date: Monday, August 26th, 2024 5:00 PM (Israel Time).
Dear IEEE Israel chapter members, Dear guests,
The IEEE Computer Society Israel conducts a series of webinars in different areas of computer systems, Software engineering, Computer architectures, data center, accelerators for machine learning, security, and more. The webinars offer insightful and enriching talks held by international leaders and professionals of the computer society sector.
The next free online webinar will include a special talk “Universal Chiplet Interconnect ExpressTM (UCIeTM): An Open Interconnect Standard for Innovations On-Package” by Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Senior Fellow, co-GM Memory and I/O Technologies, Intel.
A High-performance workloads demand on-package integration of heterogeneous processing units, on-package memory, and communication infrastructure such as co-packaged optics to meet the demands of the computing landscape. On-package interconnects are a critical component to deliver the power-efficient performance with the right feature set in this evolving landscape. Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) is an open industry standard with a fully specified stack that comprehends plug-and-play interoperability of chiplets; like the seamless interoperability on board with well-established and successful off-package interconnect standards such PCI Express® and Compute Express Link (CXL)®. In this talk, we will discuss the usages and key metrics associated with different technology choices in UCIe and how it will evolve going forward from a planar interconnect (2D/ 2.5D) to 3D to deliver superior power-performance metrics. We will also delve into the challenges and opportunities for chiplets connected through UCIe.
The Webinar is free, but pre-registration is required. So, please sign up using this (https://technion.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wQ4DQaI5T8mUW_HbIcfDyA#/registration) and the Zoom session details will be provided after registration.
Please contact us for any further details and updates on the series of IEEE Computer Society Webinars.We are looking forward to your participation and future collaboration.
Prof. Avi Mendelson Prof. Freddy Gabbay
Avi.mendelson@technion.ac.il freddy.gabbay@mail.huji.ac.il
Chairman Vice-Chair
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/430368

VCSEL Consortium Annual Meeting
2024-09-04 09:00 - 17:45 | Bldg: Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Chaim Levanon St 40, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
You are cordially invited to the annual meeting highlighting the VCSEL Consortium achievements by the Consortium members including two lectures by prominent guest scientists in the field.
Co-sponsored by: Israel Innovation Authority
Agenda:
08:30-09:00 Get together
09:00-09:30 Introduction:
Dr. Yehoshua Kalisky, Technical Manager
Dr. Yoram Karny, Chairman of the Cosortium
Greetings:
Dr. Ilan Steiner, Chief Finance and Operations Officer, INSS
Mr. Moshe Avrahami, Consortia Incentive Program, Technological Infrastructure Division
09:30-10:30 Professor Dr. Dieter Bimberg, CIOMP, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Technical University Berlin, "Energy efficiency of optical communication in data centers"
10:30-11:00 Professor Gadi Eisenstein, PI, Technion, "On the relationship between electrical and electro-optical properties of VCSEL's"
11:00-11:30 Professor Meir Orenstein, Technion, "Modes and Complexity in VCSELs"
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:15 Dr. Dan Yanson, Senior Principal Scientist, SCD SemiConductor Devices, "An (in)coherent story of developing coherent VCSEL arrays at SCD"
12:15-12:45 Professor Dan Marom, Hebrew University, "VCSEL source array spatial multiplexing with Photonic Lanterns"
12:45-13:15 Dr. Yuri Berk, Sr. Staff Engineer, Nvidia, "GaAs-based VCSELs for Rb-Atomic Clock and optical transceivers”
13:15-13:45 Lunch break
13:45-14:15 Dr. Yoel Sabag, Head of Phys. Dept., AccuBeat, "VCSEL characterization for atomic clock based on CPT (coherent population trapping) technology"
14:15-14:45 Natan Kaplan, CTO, Holo/Or, ‘’High power laser beam shaping – review of selected laser material processing applications ‘’
14:45-15:15 Dr. Inbar Dag Hartman, VP R&D, Phononics, "Integration of Diamond Heat Spreaders to VCSEL GaAs Substrates"
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Eitan Neeman, Advanced EMS Director, INPACK-Advanced packaging, "VECSEL assembly process & heat management solutions"
16:00-16:30 Eng. Ariel Roizman, Project Manager, Civan Advanced Technologies, "Applications of coherent VCSELs for CBC"
16:30-17:15 Professor Kent D. Choquette, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61802 (by zoom), "VCSEL Mode Engineering"
17:15-17:45 Dr. Yonatan Plotnik (C/O Professor Moti Segev), Technion), "Photonics in Time-Varying Media"
Bldg: Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Chaim Levanon St 40, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

New Trends and Developments in the World of Photonics
2024-09-23 10:30 - 14:00 | Bldg: Yavne Cultural Center, Olesh 1, Yavne, Tel Aviv District, Israel
SOREQ/ISORAD and Photonics Israel invite engineers and scientists from the photonics industry and academia to attend the conference and participate in a tour of the Israel Center for Advanced Photonics' Lab.
Co-sponsored by: Israel Center for Advanced Photonics (ACAP)
Speaker(s): Lutz Aschke, Alon Stopel, Ohad Zohar
Agenda:
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Bldg: Yavne Cultural Center, Olesh 1, Yavne, Tel Aviv District, Israel

הפחתת רעשים בכרטיסים אלקטרונים
2024-11-12 16:00 - 17:10 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/438854
IEEE EMC & SI, PI Israel
ואיגוד מהנדסי האלקטרוניקה בלשכת המהנדסים
מזמינים לוובינר ללא עלות בנושא:
הפחתת רעשים בכרטיסים אלקטרונים: כלים וגישות מתקדמות ל Board Design
פליטה אלקטרו-מגנטית מכרטיס אלקטרוני, נבדקת עפ”י תקנים אזרחיים /צבאיים, ומהווה אתגר, למתכנן המעגלים במיוחד ככל שקצבי התקשורת עולים, היעילות האנרגטית עולה, ואילוצי מקום ותכן קשוחים יותר.
אתגר גדול יותר הוא תכנון מערכות המשלבות סנסורים RF’ ים, בקרבה לרכיבים דיגיטליים. פגיעה ברגישות הקליטה של החלק ה- RF היא פועל יוצא של פליטה אלקטרו-מגנטית לא רצונית מהפעילות הדיגיטלית בקרבה.
לפיכך, הבנה ושליטה על מנגנוני הרעש בכרטיס, נדרשת מכל Board Designer
בוובינר נסקור את השיטות והכלים המתקדמים ביותר, להתמודדות עם האתגרים הללו.
להרשמה ללא עלות>> https://www.aeai.org.il/activity/noise-reduction-webiner/
עידית שפר | מנהלת איגודים
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משרד 03.5205818 | פקס 03.5272496
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/438854

Efficient Hardware Implementation of Deep Learning Computation and its Application - Prof. Seokbum Ko, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
2024-11-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/446950
Abstract:
Deep learning can provide superior performance in many fields of applications. However, the cost of implementing deep learning models in practical applications is expensive. Deep learning models are both computation intensive and memory intensive. Computation is an important aspect for deep learning. It can determine the latency that is how fast the results can be obtained. In this seminar, computer arithmetic for deep learning will be discussed. This lecture will start with discussing the computation requirements of deep learning models and layers. Then, several computer arithmetic designs for deep learning in the literature will be used as examples. Finally, future trends of computer arithmetic for deep learning computation will be discussed.
Posit is designed as an alternative to IEEE 754 floating-point format for many applications. It has non-uniformed number distribution, and it can provide a much larger dynamic range than IEEE floating-point format. These make posit especially suitable for deep learning applications. In recent years, more and more posit based deep learning hardware accelerators appear in the literature. In this lecture, the basics of posit format and the corresponding posit-based arithmetic units available in the literature, including adder, multiplier, multiply-accumulate unit, and quire operator, will be discussed. Then, several posit-based deep learning processors for deep learning inference and training will be discussed. Finally, the trends and challenges of posit arithmetic units and posit based deep learning processors will be discussed to motivate more related research works.
Deep learning applications will be shared with the audience.
Bio:
Seokbum Ko is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Rhode Island, USA in 2002.
His areas of research interest include computer architecture/arithmetic, efficient hardware implementation of compute-intensive applications, deep learning processor architecture and biomedical engineering.
He is an IEEE Cicuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2024-2025), a senior member of IEEE circuits and systems society and an associate editor for IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE Access and IET Computers & Digital Techniques. He is an active member of IEEE CAS Technical Committee, IEEE P3109, IEEE754-2029, IEEE Domain-Specific Accelerators Standarads Committee and IEEE Emerging Processor Systems Standards Committee. He was an associate editor for IEEE TCASI (2019-2021).
The webinar is free but registration is required.
Zoom link will be sent after registration.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/446950

IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer, Daniel Renner: Monolithic, Heterogeneous and Hybrid Photonic Integration
2024-11-25 11:30 - 12:30 | Room: 329 (third floor), Bldg: Engineering Building, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Photonic integration has been at the center of photonic activity for several years. Over this period, great strides have been made to increase the integration density and integrated chip functionality. This talk will work its way up from the drivers for photonic integration – why do we need Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs)? What are their similarities and differences with Electronic Integrated Circuits (EICs)? This analysis of integration drivers will lead to a discussion of recent progress on the main paths: monolithic, heterogeneous and hybrid. The talk will conclude with possible approaches to meet the additional demanding considerations for future Quantum PICs.
Speaker(s): , Daniel
Room: 329 (third floor), Bldg: Engineering Building, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Batteries not Included: Circuits and Systems that Sense and Self-Power - Prof. Matthew Johnston, Oregon State University
2024-12-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/448413
Abstract:
Future wearable devices and other deployed sensor systems, including smart agriculture or environmental monitoring, will require new approaches for long-term powering and operation that avoid individual battery recharging. One approach is the use of thermoelectric energy harvesting, where energy is extracted from thermal gradients using a solid-state thermoelectric generator (TEG). Even centimeter-scale TEGs can provide microwatts of power from small temperature gradients, such as body heat, but they present a number of challenges in terms of low-voltage, highly-efficient energy conversion at the output.
In this talk, I will present recent work in low-voltage energy harvesting applied to wearable devices, including some of our own low-level improvements in DC-DC converters and complete thermoelectric energy harvesting solutions – including true battery-less, wearable bioelectronic sensors powered by body heat. I will also present a number of ultra-low-power (ULP) sensor readout interface circuit approaches that enable ULP (<10µW) read-out for resistive-, voltage-, and current-domain sensors, such as temperature, pH, and electrochemical reactions. Together, thermoelectric energy harvesting combined with ULP sensors and read-out ICs are a promising avenue for powering wearable devices using body-heat energy harvesting.
Bio:
Matthew Johnston received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2006 and 2012. He was a Co-Founder and Manager of Research with Helixis, Carlsbad, CA, a Caltech-based spinout developing instrumentation for real-time PCR, from 2007 to its acquisition by Illumina in 2010. From 2012 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral scholar with the Bioelectronic Systems Lab at Columbia University. He also worked as an Associate at a life sciences venture capital firm in New York City.
Dr. Johnston joined Oregon State University in 2014, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His current research interests include the integration of sensors and transducers with silicon CMOS integrated circuits, lab-on-CMOS platforms, ultra-low-power sensor electronics, stretchable circuits and systems, bio-energy harvesting, and low-power distributed sensing.
Dr. Johnston was the recipient of the 2020 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Young Faculty Award, the 2021 Oregon State University College of Engineering Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, and the 2021 Oregon State University Provost Fellowship. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and he has also served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
The webinar is free but registration is required. Zoom link will be sent after registration.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/448413

Antennas Symposium
2024-12-19 09:00 - 17:20 | Room: Auditorium 001, Bldg: Broadcom Building, Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to attend The 12th Tel Aviv University Antenna Symposium on Thursday, December 19, 2024.
The conference program is attached.
Participation is free of charge, but advanced registration at https://boag.sites.tau.ac.il/antenna-symposium-registration is required.
The same link is embedded in the program.
Please spread this message.
Best regards,
Yakir Hadad and Amir Boag
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Prof. Amir Boag
Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Phone: (tel:%2B972-3-6408246) E-mail: boag@tau.ac.il
Cellular: (tel:%2B972-50-9422426)
Fax: (tel:%2B972-3-6423508) URL: https://boag.sites.tau.ac.il/
Agenda:
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Registration & Coffee
Welcome, and Opening Remarks Amir Boag, Yakir Hadad,
Davide Tallini – EuroMED SIMULIA, Non-parametric Shape Optimization of a Horn Antenna Feed Chain,
Dr. Amir Shlivinski – BGU, Prof. Yakir Hadad – TAU, Universal Pulsed Radiation by Temporal Transition in Open Guiding Structures,
Prof. Amir Boag, Fast Time Domain Algorithms
Prof. Ehud Heyman – TAU, Dr. Michael Katsav – Rafael, Beam Diffraction by an Impedance Wedge: Exact and Uniform Asymptotic Solutions, and Phenomenology,
Prof. Reuven Shavit and Michael Elman- BGU, Metasurface Conformal Radomes with Printed Elements,
Prof. Eitan Bachmat – BGU, Wave Propagation: a Multidisciplinary Approach
Lunch on site
Dr. Yarden Mazor – TAU, Characterizing the Electric Properties of Scatterers in a Homogeneous Environment Using an Open-Ended
Coaxial Probe
A. Shaham, B.-Z. Joselson, I. Varenisov, D. Dikarov, and Prof. Ariel Epstein – Technion, Temporal Wood’s Anomaly in Folded Time Gratings
Prof. Pavel Ginzburg, et al. – TAU and Rafael, Drone Tagging with Superscatterers
Roee Geva, Prof. Mário Silveirinha and Prof. Raphael Kastner – TAU and Universidade de Lisboa, Polarization Control with PTD-Symmetric Metasurfaces
Prof. Yakir Hadad and Koffi Emanuel Sadzi – TAU, Modeling the Particle in a Cavity Problem Using Polarizability Theory
Coffee Break & Refreshments
Dr. Cosme Culotta-López, et al. – Orbit/FR (MVG), Parallax Compensation in Offset-Mounted Spherical Near-Field Vehicular Antenna Measurements With Probe Effects for FFT-Based NFFFTs
Dr. Lea Beilkin et al. – Unidirectional Solitons in Nonlinear Electric Circuit Metamaterials
Vladimir Vulfin – EM Infinity and Prof. Reuven Shavit – BGU, Scattering Analysis of Two Metal Beams with Rectangular Cross Section and Arbitrary Orientation
Omry Oren, Matar Eliaz and Prof. Eran Socher – TAU, Controlling Beam Steering of THz CMOS DRAs Using 2D Multiport Excitation
Dr. Erez Gershnabel – IAI, Nanophotonics and metamaterials
Prof. Timor Melamed – BGU, Applying Beam Methods for the Design of Curved Pulsed Beams
Wine and Cheese Reception
Room: Auditorium 001, Bldg: Broadcom Building, Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Oceanic Engineering Meetup
2025-01-21 16:00 - 18:30 | Room: Room 223, Bldg: Multi-purpose building, Abba Khoushy Ave 199, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
🌊 Join Us for the first IEEE OES student event in Israel! 🌊
The IEEE OES Student Chapter Branch at the (https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-haifa/) is excited to host the Oceanic Engineering Meetup, the first-ever OES student event in Israel.
📅 Date: January 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 16:00-18:30
📍 Location: University of Haifa, Multi-purpose building, Room 223
Discover the latest advancements in marine and environmental technologies through talks by:
🔹 Samuel Cohen: Autonomous surface vehicle navigation algorithm validations.
🔹 Tom Aviksis Cohen: AI-powered oil spill detection using multisource technologies.
🔹 Zeev Yampolsky: Data-driven frameworks for DVL calibration.
🔹 Haitham Ezzy: Linking reef habitat features and fish diversity with 3D metrics.
🔹 Daniel Engelsman: Learning-based gyrocompassing.
🔹 Netta Palez & Gal Versano: Preparing ARIEL for AUV competition and research.
✨ Don’t miss the robotic exhibition and an opportunity to network over light refreshments.
Be part of this exciting milestone for IEEE OES in Israel—see you there!
Co-sponsored by: Nadav Cohen
Room: Room 223, Bldg: Multi-purpose building, Abba Khoushy Ave 199, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

Technion CTF Team - End-of-Semester Competition
2025-01-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Room: #6 & #8, Bldg: Taub, Technion City, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
Hello everyone!
The Technion's CTF group – **Technipwn** – is excited to announce the **End-of-Semester Competition**, in collaboration with Intel, which will take place this **Tuesday, January 28th, at 6:30 PM** in the **Taub Building**.
The competition will be held in teams of 2-3 participants, so you can either come with a team in advance or form one during the event.
The challenges will cover topics learned throughout the semester, including **web, binary exploitation, crypto, and forensics** 👾
And of course, there will be **prizes for the winners** 🏅
**Register for the competition here (limited spots):**
(https://forms.gle/g6txmfPWuQTMCp7s8)
See you at the competition! 🏆
Room: #6 & #8, Bldg: Taub, Technion City, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

ceClub Seminar - Securing Modern Systems is More Challenging Than Ever (and Requires New and Dedicated Guardrails)
2025-01-29 11:30 - 12:30 | Room: #506, Bldg: Zisapel Building, Technion City, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
Securing Modern Systems is More Challenging Than Ever (and Requires New and Dedicated Guardrails).
Abstract. Over the past decade, an increasing number of systems and devices have gained Internet connectivity and been enhanced with sensing capabilities and AI. While these advancements have created a world of smarter, more automated, and highly connected devices, they have also introduced significant security and privacy challenges that cannot be effectively addressed with traditional countermeasures.
In the first part of this talk, we will explore the security and privacy concerns of cyber-physical systems. Specifically, we will examine new threats that have emerged with the deployment of technologies like drones and Teslas in real-world environments. Our discussion will highlight methods for detecting intrusive drone filming and securing Teslas against time-domain adversarial attacks.
The second part of the talk focuses on the challenges posed by the coexistence of functional devices with limited computational power (that do not adhere to Moore’s law) alongside sensors with ever-increasing sampling rates. We will explore how threats such as cryptanalysis and speech eavesdropping—previously accessible only to well-resourced adversaries—can now be executed by ordinary attackers using readily available hardware like photodiodes and video cameras. These attacks leverage optical traces or video footage from a device’s power LED to extract sensitive information.
Finally, in the last part of the talk, we will address the emerging need to secure GenAI-powered applications against a new category of threats we call Promptware. This threat highlights the evolving landscape of vulnerabilities introduced by generative AI systems.
Speaker(s): Dr. Ben Nassi
Room: #506, Bldg: Zisapel Building, Technion City, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

ceClub Seminar - Workloads, Storage, and Service Allocation in Edge Computing
2025-02-05 11:30 - 12:30 | Room: #8, Bldg: CS Taub Building, Technion City, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel, 3200003
Workloads, Storage, and Service Allocation in Edge Computing
Abstract. Edge computing extends cloud capabilities to the proximity of end-users, offering ultra-low latency, which is essential for real-time applications. Unlike traditional cloud systems that suffer from latency and reliability constraints due to distant datacenters, edge computing employs a distributed model, leveraging local edge datacenters to process and store data.
This talk explores key challenges in edge computing across three domains: workloads, storage, and service allocation.
The first part focuses on the absence of comprehensive edge workload datasets. Current datasets do not accurately reflect the unique attributes of edge systems. To address this, we propose a workload composition methodology and introduce WoW-IO, an open-source trace generator. The second part examines aspects of edge storage. Edge datacenters are significantly smaller than their cloud counterparts and require dedicated solutions. We analyze the applicability of a promising mathematical model for edge storage systems and raise inherent gaps between theory and practice. The final part addresses the virtual network embedding problem (VNEP). In VNEP, given a set of requests for deploying virtualized applications, the edge provider has to deploy a maximum number of them to the underlying physical network, subject to capacity constraints. We propose novel solutions, including a proactive service allocation strategy for mobile users, a flexible algorithm for service allocation that is adaptable to the underlying physical topology, and an algorithm for scalable online service allocation.
Speaker(s): Oleg Kolosov
Room: #8, Bldg: CS Taub Building, Technion City, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel, 3200003

Special Seminar: Maximising the capacity of optical networks - how far have come and what else can we do?
2025-02-09 11:00 - 12:30 | Room: Lecture Hall 001, Bldg: Broadcom Semiconductors, Tel Aviv University, Dr. George Wise St. 17, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel, 69978
Optical fibre networks underpin the global communications infrastructure, carrying >95% of all digital data. These optical networks operate on different time- and distance-scales – spanning long-distances (trans-oceanic, inter-satellite) and inter-city, as well as interconnecting servers and GPUs within data centres. The challenge for next-generation networks is in making them intelligent and adaptable to changes in demand and applications in the future.
Advancing AI and scientific research requires optimizing optical networks from the component through to the physical network layer. The physical topology and nonlinear properties of the optical fibre form a key bottleneck affecting achievable throughput in these networks. Optimising the throughput involves solving two NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problems: (i) the physical topology design problem and (ii) the routing and wavelength assignment problem by including the physical properties in ultrawideband optical network design – through and for artificial intelligence.
This talk will consider both of these challenges and their influence the maximum achievable throughput – a vital objective for the future scaling of AI algorithms.
References:
R. Matzner, A. Ahuja, R. Sadeghi, M. Doherty, S. J. Savory, and P. Bayvel, ‘Topology Bench: Systematic Graph Based Benchmarking for Core Optical Networks’, arXiv preprint arXiv:submit/5982227 (2024).
R. Matzner, D. Semrau, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, ‘Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks ’, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 13, no. 8, p. D53, Aug. 2021.
R. Matzner, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, ‘Expanding Graph Neural Networks for Ultra-Fast Optical Core Network Throughput Prediction to Large Node Scales’, in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2022), paper We5.61, Optica Publishing Group, Sep. 2022, p. We5.61.
R. Matzner, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, ‘Ultra-fast Optical Network Throughput Prediction using Graph Neural Networks’, in 26th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling, May 2022, p. 3.
R. Matzner, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, ‘Intelligent performance inference: A graph neural network approach to modelling maximum achievable throughput in optical networks’, APL Machine Learning, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 026112, May 2023.
Distinguished Speaker: Prof. Polina Bayvel
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Professor Polina Bayvel is the Head of the (https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/ong/) (Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering), UCL, a research group she set up in 1994. Her research interests are in the area of optical communications and networks on different time- and length scales (from trans-oceanic distances to intra- and inter-data centre communications and routing. This includes the analysis and implementation of intelligent optical networks, wavelength routing, high-speed optical transmission, and the study and mitigation of optical fibre nonlinearities. Following her PhD, she worked as a systems engineer in the STC Submarine Systems, Greenwich (now Alcatel Submarine Networks) on the first amplified optical transmission and in Nortel (Harlow Labs) on optical network planning.
In 1994 she received a Royal Society University Research fellowship and moved to UCL to set up ONG, the first academic systems engineering group in optical networks.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, IEEE and Optica. She is the 2021 recipient (and first woman) of the Thomas Young Medal of the UK Institute of Physics and the first woman to be awarded the 2023 Royal Society Rumford Medal since it was introduced in 1800! In 2024 she received the Humboldt Foundation Research Prize.
Author/co-author of more than 500 refereed journal and conference papers, she has led the UK EPSRC Programme Grant (https://www.unloc.net/) (2012-2018), focused on unlocking – and maximising – the capacity of optical fibre communications and currently leads the EPSRC Programme Grant TRANSNET (2018-2026): https://transnet.org.uk/ focused on transforming optical networks for the cloud.
Agenda:
11:00 – 11:30 התכנסות וכיבוד קל
11:30 – 12:30 הרצאה של פרופ' פולינה בייבל
Room: Lecture Hall 001, Bldg: Broadcom Semiconductors, Tel Aviv University, Dr. George Wise St. 17, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel, 69978

Workshop on Renewable Energy: Importance and Future
2025-04-22 12:30 - 14:00 | NABLUS , West Bank, Palestine
ستتناول هذه الورشة أهمية الطاقة المتجددة ودورها في التنمية المستدامة والتطورات المستقبلية. سيقدم الدكتور تامر الخطيب رؤىً حول حلول الطاقة المبتكرة والشبكات الذكية. ويتماشى هذا الحدث مع شعار يوم الطاقة النظيفة من خلال تعزيز الطاقة النظيفة والاستدامة.
Speaker(s): AL KHATEEB,
NABLUS , West Bank, Palestine

Sustainability in Energy Systems
2025-04-23 12:30 - 14:00 | NABLUS , West Bank, Palestine
ستستكشف هذه الورشة مبادئ الاستدامة في أنظمة الطاقة ، مع التركيز على الاستخدام الفعال للموارد، وتكامل مصادر الطاقة المتجددة، وحلول الطاقة الخضراء . سيقدم الدكتور شادي صويلحة رؤىً حول أحدث التقنيات المستدامة ودورها في تشكيل مستقبل الطاقة. تتماشى هذه الجلسة مع شعار يوم IEEE PES: "طاقة نظيفة، شبكات أذكى، وحياة أفضل".
Speaker(s): Swailha,
NABLUS , West Bank, Palestine

Bendable Computing
2025-05-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/480935
RE: Monthly webinar – Bendable Computing
Speaker: Dr. Emre Ozer, Senior Director of Processor Development, Pragmatic
Date: Thursday, May 8th, 2025 5:00 PM (Israel Time).
Dear IEEE Israel chapter members, Dear guests,
The IEEE Computer Society Israel conducts a series of webinars in different areas of computer systems, Software engineering, Computer architectures, data center, accelerators for machine learning, security, and more. The webinars offer insightful and enriching talks held by international leaders and professionals of the computer society sector.
The next free online webinar will include a special talk “Bendable Computing” by Dr. Emre Ozer, Senior Director of Processor Development, Pragmatic.
his talk will introduce Pragmatic Semiconductor’s FlexIC technology, and present how it allows us to develop "bendable" processors to enable emerging applications at Extreme Edge.
The Webinar is free, but pre-registration is required. So, please sign up using this (https://technion.zoom.us/meeting/register/xGDbeS8-RZaIw_OzP9ylaw) and the Zoom session details will be provided after registration.
Please contact us for any further details and updates on the series of IEEE Computer Society Webinars.We are looking forward to your participation and future collaboration.
Prof. Avi Mendelson Prof. Freddy Gabbay
Avi.mendelson@technion.ac.il freddy.gabbay@mail.huji.ac.il
Chairman Vice-Chair
Speaker(s): , Emre
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/480935

IEEE Israel - 2025 General Assembly, 13.5.2025
2025-05-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/480726
חבר/ה- IEEE ISRAEL יקר/ה
אני מתכבד להזמין אותך לאספה הכללית לשנת 2025 של הארגון, אשר תתקיים באופן מקוון באמצעות ZOOM ביום שלישי, 13.5.2025.
האספה תפתח להצטרפות החל משעה 16:30, ותתקיים בכל מספר נוכחים החל משעה 17:00.
האספה הכללית היא המוסד העליון של העמותה והיא מתכנסת לפחות אחת לשנה. האספה תדון בנושאים שעל סדר היום.
ניתן להוסיף נושאים לסדר היום במהלך האספה ובלבד שהוחלט על כך בהצבעה.
חבר הרשום כפעיל ב- IEEE ביום האספה בשנת 2025 ואשר נוכח בהצבעה זכאי להצביע.
הנך מתבקש.ת להירשם ולמלא את פרטיך באמצעות הקישור: https://aeai-org-il.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tDbJY6o8R0K9d7D_nm-prA
לאחר שתסיים.י את הליך הרישום, המערכת תשלח אליך באופן אוטומטי במייל (לכתובת הדוא"ל שרשמת) את הזימון (קישור) לפגישה.
יש לעשות שימוש בקישור זה להתחברות ביום האספה.
בברכה,
שמואל אוסטר
יו"ר IEEE סניף ישראל
Chair, IEEE Israel Section
Agenda:
על סדר היום:
· בחירת יו"ר ומזכיר לאספה כללית זו
· דו"ח יו"ר הסניף, שמואל אוסטר
· דו"ח כספי לשנת 2024 – שמואל אוסטר ורואה החשבון גיל משיח
· דו"ח ועדת ביקורת על הדו"חות הכספיים: רפי הוידה ואיתי דברן
· אישור דו"חות כספיים לשנת 2024 ותקציב ל- 2025.
· אישור מינוי רו"ח וחברי וועדת הביקורת.
· נושאים שונים שיועלו ע"י הנוכחים.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/480726

Radar or Lidar What to Choose for Automotive Applications
2025-05-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Room: 11, Bldg: Kitot Handasa, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Central District, Israel
This lecture addresses one of the hottest technological debates in the modern automobile industry: selecting radar or LiDAR technologies for autonomous and active safety-equipped vehicles. The lecture presents a structured comparison of the two technologies, focusing on their distinct operational characteristics, advantages, and limitations. Radar and LiDAR operate at different frequency bands, which leads to significant differences in how they interact with the environment. Radar is favored for its robustness in adverse weather and low-light conditions, providing long-range detection at a relatively low cost. It also allows for flexible integration behind nontransparent vehicle fascia, making it highly adaptable for commercial vehicle use. On the other hand, LiDAR offers superior angular resolution and spatiotemporal consistency, which are critical for tasks such as object recognition and mapping in autonomous driving.
This lecture begins by outlining the core functionalities of radar and lidar systems and exploring how their unique physical properties, such as wavelength and propagation behaviors, influence their performance in various driving scenarios. Key factors such as range, accuracy, detection reliability, and operational costs will be evaluated, along with a detailed analysis of signal processing techniques used by each sensor type. Additionally, the limitations of LiDAR, including its higher cost and sensitivity to environmental factors, will be contrasted with radar's challenges, such as interference and resolution constraints.
By highlighting recent advancements in both technologies, including digital radars with high-resolution imaging capabilities and efforts to reduce the cost of long-range LiDAR, this lecture aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the trade-offs involved in choosing between radar and LiDAR for different automotive applications. Future research directions, such as the integration of multi-sensor systems and potential cross-modality innovations, will also be discussed to inspire further developments in autonomous vehicle sensing technologies.
Speaker(s): , Igal Bilik
Agenda:
11:00-11:50 Lecture
11:50-12:00 QNA
Room: 11, Bldg: Kitot Handasa, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Central District, Israel

Accelerating Secure Computing for IoT Sensors - Elkim Felipe Roa Fuentes, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
2025-05-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/482054
Abstract:
Security in IoT sensors has focused on cryptography-based but has failed to consider System-on-Chip (SoC) interoperability during side-channel, and physical attacks, as they concentrate solely on standalone behavior. This talk will discuss SoC security solutions that shield a SoC against supply voltage and physical attacks while apprising SoC interoperation. Along with the supply monitoring shields, this talk will present an efficient AES-256b encryption module accelerator, a physical unclonable function, and a true random number generator as SoC peripheral instances.
Bio:
Elkim received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2014, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, his M.S degree from the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. He is currently a SoC Architect in Samsung Semiconductor Inc. working on computing acceleration for 4G/5G modems systems. Prior to Samsung, he has worked with Rambus Inc. and GlobalFoundries on high-speed communications, systems engineering for projects solving communications bandwidth and computing bottlenecks. He was an Associate Professor at Universidad Industrial de Santander from 2016 to 2021. His research interests include SoC architecture, high-speed interfaces, computing acceleration, and efficient AI computing.
The webinar is free but registration is required. Zoom link will be sent after registration.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/482054

Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks
2025-05-26 09:15 - 17:30 | Bldg: 41, Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Southern District, Israel
Beyong 5G and 6G, Cognitive Radio, Federated Learning, ISAC, Network Coding, NOMA, Smart Antenna
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgc-vHE_uJe5orC9hc4HqEX7OMbvfsVU00__-wsqjhXIDzsw/viewform?usp=header&urp=gmail_link
Poster submission: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWA2fvGEwj4mkT7mgMQET8EmU49I3AqxDbDKq_urerrnof4g/viewform?usp=header&urp=gmail_link
Co-sponsored by: Ben Gurion University
Agenda:
Time Session Details
09:15–09:45 Gathering
09:45–09:55 Opening Dr. Dror Ofer, Head of Ofek DivisionIgal Evenzal, DDRD
09:55–10:00 Welcome Address Ben-Gurion University representative (VP/Dean/Head of the School)
10:00–10:05 Remarks LTC Bar – Head of Communications Branch
10:05–10:30 Keynote Speaker Chair: TBD Prof. George Alexandropoulos (Athens, Greece)Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Programmable Reflections to Over-the-Air Learning
10:30–11:30 Session 1 Chair: Dr. Anatoly Khina (Tel Aviv University) – Prof. Kobi Cohen (BGU): Statistical Inference and Learning over Wireless Channels – Prof. Haim Permuter (BGU): AI-Driven Solutions for Key Communication Challenges – Dr. Nir Shlezinger (BGU): Flexible and Lightweight AI for Wireless Communications
11:30–12:00 Poster Session An award will be given to the best three poster presentations. Student Award Committee: – Prof. Ram Zamir (Tel Aviv University) – Prof. Yuval Cassuto (Technion) – Prof. Benjamin Zaidel (Bar-Ilan University)
12:00–13:00 Lunch on Site
13:00–14:20 Session 2 Chair: Prof. Yuval Kochman (Hebrew University) – Prof. Joseph Tabrikian (BGU): Cognitive Waveform Design and Beamforming for MIMO-ISAC – Prof. Alejandro Cohen (Technion): Network Coding Technologies – Shai Ginzach (Rafael): Adaptive Causal Coding for Streaming Communications – Ronen Greenberg (Elbit): Smart Spectrum Management in Distributed Networks
14:20–14:40 Coffee Break
14:40–15:35 Session 3 Chair: TBD – Prof. Emanuel Cohen (Technion & Ayecka): Unified Aperture for Satcom – Prof. Dan Blumberg (VP for Regional & Industrial Development): The Innovation Ecosystem in the Negev – Prof. Qing Zhao (Cornell University, USA): Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
15:35–15:55 Coffee Break
15:55–16:40 Panel Discussion Moderator: Prof. Meir Feder (Tel Aviv University) Industry View of Future Communications (6G, ISAC, Tactical Networks) Panelists: – Aviel Glam (CTO, Almagor, Rafael) – Neta Sigron (VP R&D, Communication Systems, Elbit) – Avi Barda (CEO, NOVELSAT-AYECKA)
16:40–16:50 Student Award Announcement & Closing Remarks Dr. Nadav Cohen, Dr. Dror Ofer, LTC Guy Bar, Igal Evenzal
16:50–17:30 Reception Light food, cheese, and drinks
Bldg: 41, Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Southern District, Israel
