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Academic year opening meeting – Excellence Program:
In this first meeting of the year—a face-to-face meeting (after a long period of only seeing each other on screens)—veteran students met the new students who joined the program this year. During the meeting, students were presented with challenging thinking activities in the form of an escape room. They had to work together as a team and received tools to help them develop creative and innovative thinking.
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Meeting with Shaul Kfir, Lapidim alumnus and co-founder and CTO of Digital Asset
During the meeting, Shaul shared with the students the story of his journey after graduating and up until today, the link between founding a business and the Lapidim program, a few things that he learned along the way, and some things he would have been happy to have known at the beginning of his journey. Shaul is a graduate of the Lapidim program who completed his studies in 2013. In the eight years since, he founded three startup companies in Israel and the U.S. Today Shaul is the CTO of Digital Asset, which he established in New York in 2014. The company employs about 170 people spread over five continents and to date has raised approximately 300 million dollars.
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Meeting with Professor Yoav Shoham, Faculty graduate and professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University
The students met with Prof. Yoav Shoham, Faculty graduate and professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University. His research focuses on artificial intelligence in the field of multi-agent systems and game theory. During the meeting, Prof. Shoham spoke to the students about academia, industry and life itself. He told the students about his academic path and his research, and also described his entrepreneurship and the companies he established that deal with online businesses. The most well-known of these is Trading Dynamics, involved in online tenders. Prof. Shoham is the CEO and co-founder (with Prof. Amnon Shashua and Ori Goshen) of AI21 Labs, which deals with AI applications.
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Meeting with David Sokolic, Manageing Partner at OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Fund
Students met online with David Sokolic, managing partner at OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Fund. The meeting focused on crowdfunding as a method for funding initiatives.OurCrowd, one of the worlds’ leading crowdfunding platform for investing in startups, is managed by serial entrepreneur, Jon Medved. Since 2014, OurCrowd has invested over 220 million dollars in 93 portfolio companies.
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Yevgeny Dibrov, a Lapidim graduate, CEO and co-founder of Aramis, in an article in Calcalist
"Organizations today are a lot more exposed to cyberattacks”,said Yevgeny Dibrov in an interview during Calcalist’s online cyber conference. For the complete article, see: https://www.calcalist.co.il/conference/articles/0,7340,L-3840378,00.html (Hebrew) |
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(עברית) אקזיט של בוגרי תכנית לפידים: נדיר יזרעאל ויבגני דבירוב
Lapidim Program alumni make a high-tech exit: Nadir Izrael and Yevgeny Dibrov Nadir Israel and Yevgeny Dibrov, Lapidim Program alumni (class of 2014), are the founders of the cyber startup, Aramis, which was just purchased by Insight Ventures for $1 billion. For the complete story as reported in Calcalist:https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3777133,00.html |
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Israeli startup Aramis is on Globes’ list of ten most promising startup companies
Aramis, an Israeli startup, founded by Nadir and Yevgeny, Lapidim graduates, is ranked number four on Globes’ list of the ten most promising startup companies. To read the complete article (in Hebrew), see https://www.globes.co.il/news/home.aspx?fid=11190 |
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Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, Lapidim graduates, feature in an article in Calcalist
Google invests in Aramis Tel Aviv Aramis protects IoT devices and Google is investing millions of dollars in the company as part of increasing its efforts in the area. Google intends to continue investing in the future. To read the complete article (in Hebrew), see: https://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3773689,00.html |
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PODS 2019 submission 84 -- award notification
Nofar Carmeli has won the Best Student Paper Award together with her coauthor Markus Kröll, on their paper: On the Enumeration Complexity of Unions of Conjunctive Queries, by Nofar Carmeli and Markus Kröll |
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They have emergency situations in control
Tal Alon and Yarden Shapira, students in the Department’s Lapidim Program, developed an innovative information system for the Galilee Medical Center. The system is intended to assist the hospital administration in making educated and information-based decisions during emergencies. The two students executed the project under the supervision of Prof. Benny Kimelfeld, the academic faculty member in charge of the Lapidim Program. The system that they developed, with an easy-to-use and friendly interface, presents the hospital management with a wide range of necessary data in real time: the number of people in a department/ward, anticipated number of patients that will be hospitalized, anticipated number of patients that will be released, and vailability of operating rooms and units of blood. The system worked successfully during an “war exercise”, held on February 7th, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health’s Crisis Handling Unit, the IDF, the Israel Police, Magen David Adom in Israel, and additional emergency services. The pair have given us real reasons to be proud of them! :To read the complete article (in Hebrew), see |
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