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Students visited the Intel facility in MATAM and met with Giora Yorav, post silicon system validation manager in the Mobileye team and heard about Intel’s strategy in the area of autonomous cars. In addition, they met with Avi Salamon, innovation manager in Intel’s Development Centers, who spoke to them about innovation in industry and how to make innovative and creative thinking a natural part of the organization.

 

Students met with Uzi Cohen, software engineer and member of the Cortana team at Microsoft. At the meeting, students heard a lecture titled The Lifecycle of Modern Applications.

Yvgeny Dibrov and Nadir Yizrael – founders of the Armis startup, Eden Saig – a Facebook investigator, Nofar Carmeli – departmental doctoral student, and Ori Servalo – a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University – are all graduates of the Lapidim program. They came together to meet with students and speak about their experiences and life for them as students in the programs.

Students met with Iris Moshkovitz, an organizational consultant and trainer, who conducted an interpersonal communications seminar intended to show them how to reap practical results from networking and how to make small talk with strangers without sounding artificial.

Students met with Prof. Alex Bronstein, faculty member and lecture in the Department and director of the “Center for Intelligent Systems”, an expert in machine learning, computer vision, image processing and computational imaging. During the meeting, Prof. Bronstein gave a lecture titled Learning to See: Imaging in the Data Age, and spoke about his research and entrepreneurial philosophy.