News

  • Congratulations to Yakov for winning the Yaakov ben-Yitzhak Hacohen Excellence Scholarship for 2024!

  • Congratulations to Lital for winning The Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) travel grant (Mar. 2024)

  • Congratulations to Tal Pardo for winning the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources
    scholarship for B.Sc. students (Dec. 2023)

  • Congratulations to Tslil for winning the Yitzhak Navon Master's degree Scholarship of the Israeli Ministry of Science

  • Congratulations to Malaak Khatib and Morad Halihal for winning the
    Goldman-Sonnenfeld School of Sustainability and Climate Change Scholarship
    for research in the fields of environment, sustainability, and climate change.

  • A warm welcome to the new members of our lab: Eyal, Tslil, Yoni, Shaked, and Yaakov! (Aug. 2023)

  • Tirza has been selected for the Outstanding Reviewer Award at ICASSP 2023 (June 2023).

  • Congratulations to Malaak Khatib and Elias Asaf, and to Guy Sagi and Avia Shimoni for winning the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Project Award for their B.Sc. research projects for the year 2022 (June 2023).

  • Congratulations to Gal for winning the
    School of Sustainability and Climate Change Grant (June 2023)

  • Congratulations to Morad for winning the “STEM Scholarship” for his Ph.D. from the Kreitman School (March 2023)

  • Congratulations to Malaak for winning the CTBTO student travel grant for
    Science and Technology Conference in Hofburg, Vienna, Austria (March 2023)

  • Congratulations to Malaak and Itay for awarding certificates of excellence on behalf of the Dean of the Engineering faculty! (March 2023)

  • Tirza has been elected to the SPS Technical Directions Board Representative
    on the Education Board 2023-2025.

  • Congratulations to Malaak for winning the Council for Higher Education (VATAT)
    scholarship for excellent students from the Arab community in sciences (Dec. 2022).

  • Congratulations to Itay Buchnik for being awarded the best student presentation in the 2022 IEEE-SPS/EURASIP Summer School!

  • Tirza is named a Whitman College Fellow at Princeton University for 2023

  • Tirza on sabbatical leave from BGU during 2022-2023, as a William R. Kenan, Jr., Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University

  • New grant was awarded from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) on
    “Estimation of Graph Signals” starting from October 2022.

  • A warm welcome to the new members in our lab: Malaak, Yaniv, Roi, and Yaela! (Aug. 2022)

  • Congratulations to Malaak for winning “Paul and Edwina Heller Scholarship and the Silins Foundation for M.Sc. Studies from the Arab Society”
    of Ben-Gurion University (Aug. 2022)

  • New grant was awarded from Data Science Research Center at Ben-Gurion University for research on
    “Utilization and Improvement of Graph Neural Networks for Power System Applications” starting from July 2023

  • Congratulations to Nadav for winning the IEEE SPS student travel grant for
    the conference ICASSP 2022 in Singapore (Feb. 2022)

  • Tirza will present the work on “Non-Bayesian Parametric Missing-Mass Estimation ”
    at the First International Israel Data Science Initiative Conference (IDSI 2022), Ein Gedy, Israel

  • Congratulations to Itay for winning the grant for “Access and Usage of Cloud Resources” from the Israel Data Science Initiative (IDSI)
    for his research on “Deep Learning Aided Tracking from Time Sequences of Graph Signals” (Dec. 2021)

  • New grant was awarded from the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources for research on
    “Physics-informed Learning and Graphical Methods for Data Processing in Power Grids” starting from January 2022.

  • Congratulations to Lital for winning the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources
    scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. students (Dec. 2021)

  • Congratulations to Lital for joining The Ariane de Rothschild Women's Doctoral Program for outstanding Ph.D. students (Nov. 2021)

  • A warm welcome to Itay Buchnik starting his M.Sc. jointly supervised by Dr. Nir Shlezinger (Oct. 2021)

  • Congratulations to Morad for winning “The Electra Co. Student Fellowships in Climate: Engineering & Sustainability”
    of Ben-Gurion University (Oct. 2021)

  • Congratulations to Lital for winning the “Hi-Tech Scholarship” for her Ph.D. from the Kreitman School (Oct. 2021)

  • New grant was awarded from Data Science Research Center at Ben-Gurion University for research on
    “Large Network Parameter Estimation by Graph Theory and Numerical Methods” starting from October 2021

  • Congratulations to Gal! Gal was selected to the European NGIExplorers project.
    The program is sponsoring European Top researchers and innovators (Explorers)
    to join a unique technology expedition in the US (July 2021)

  • Congratulations to Taeer for winning The Weinstein Prize for Signal Processing Paper at Tel-Aviv University (July 2021)

  • Nadav will present his work on “Post-Parameter-Selection Maximum-Likelihood Estimation”
    at SSP 2021, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (virtual conference, July 2021)

  • Congratulations to Tirza for winning the Toronto Prize for Excellence in Research of Ben-Gurion University (June 2021)

  • Nadav will present his work on “Low-Complexity Methods for Estimation After Parameter Selection”
    at ICASSP 2021, Toronto, Canada (virtual conference, June 2021)

  • Congratulations to Lital for awarding a certificate of excellence on behalf of the University Rector! (April 2021)

  • Congratulations to Morad for winning the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources
    scholarship for excellent students in engineering and exact science (Dec. 2020).

  • Congratulations to Morad for winning the Council for Higher Education (VATAT)
    scholarship for excellent students from the Arab community in sciences (Dec. 2020).

  • New grant was awarded from the Pazy Foundation grant for research on
    “Seismic Wave Direction of Arrival Estimation in a Correlated Noise Environment”
    (jointly with Dr. J. Rosenblatt, BGU, Y. Ben Horin (SNRC), Dr. Y. Radzyner (SNRC)
    starting from January 2021.

  • Congratulations to Lital for winning “The Electra Co. Student Fellowships in Climate: Engineering & Sustainability”
    of Ben-Gurion University (Nov. 2020).

  • We organize (with the IEEE SPTM Technical Committee) the IEEE Five-Minute Video Clip Contest (5-MICC)
    “Fight the Pandemic” at ICIP 2020.

  • Congratulations to Nadav for winning the “Negev (Tzin) Scholarship” for his Ph.D. from the Kreitman School (Oct. 2020).

  • Neta presented her work on “Colored Noise in DOA Estimation from Seismic Data: an Empirical Study,” and Nadav presented his work on “Bayesian Cramér-Rao Bound for Estimation After Model Selection” (invited) at Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers, Oct. 2020.

  • New grant was awarded from BGU Cyber Security Research Center for research on
    “Graph Signal Processing for Attack Detection in Smart Grids” starting from July 2020.

  • Congratulations to Lital for awarding a certificate of excellence on behalf of the University Rector and to Ariel for awarding a certificate of excellence on behalf of the Dean of the Engineering faculty! (March 2020)

  • A warm welcome to the new member in our lab, Yakov, and congratulations for winning the BGU multidisciplinary scholarship for M.Sc. students (March 2020)

  • Ariel Kroizer presented his work on “Modeling and Recovery of Graph Signals and Difference-Based Signals” at GlobalSIP 2019 (invited).

  • Congratulations to Shir, Eyal, and Tirza for winning the Excellence in Teaching Award of the ECE department, 2019.

  • New grant was awarded from Data Science Research Center at Ben-Gurion University for research on
    “Seismic Wave Direction of Arrival Estimation in a Correlated Noise Environment” starting from January 2020.

  • Congratulations to Lital for winning the Apple prize for excellent students (Jan. 2020).

  • Congratulations to Lital and Neta for winning the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources
    scholarship for excellent students in
    engineering and exact science (Jan. 2020).

  • Congratulations to Lital for winning the Council for Higher Education (VATAT)
    scholarship for excellent female students in High-tech tracks (Dec. 2019).

  • Congratulations to Gal for winning the Ze'ev Jabotinsky scholarship in applied science for Ph.D. students in the combined/direct track from the Israel Ministry of Science for 2020-2023

  • Congratulations to Gal for winning the “Lachish Scholarship” for Ph.D. students from Kreitman School of Ben-Gurion University.

  • Congratulations to Lital, Gal, Ariel, and Itai for Excellence Awards in their studies at 2018

  • A warm welcome to the new members in our lab: Lital and Morad! (Sep. 2019)

  • Tirza has been selected for Outstanding Reviewer Award at ICASSP 2019 (May 2019).

  • Congratulations to Neta for winning the Yaakov ben-Yitzhak Hacohen Excellence Scholarship for 2019!

  • Presentations at conferences:

    • Elisabeth will present her work on “Intrusion Detection in Smart Grid Measurement Infrastructures based on Principal Component Analysis” and Tirza will present her work on “Centralized Identification of Imbalances in Power Networks With Synchrophasor Data” at Powertech 2019, Milano, Italy.

    • Gal will present his work on “Network Constraints Against Cyber attacks in Power Systems,” and Sivan will present her work on “Graph Blind Source Separation with Applications for Power Systems” at Graph Signal Processing (GSP) Workshop 2019, Minneapolis, USA.

    • Eyal Nitzan will present his work on “Bobrovsky-Zakai-Type Bound for Periodic Stochastic Filtering” at ICASSP 2019, Brighton, United Kingdom.

  • New grant was awarded from the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MAFAT) for research on
    “Detection of Cyber-attacks and Changes in Power Systems” starting from February 2019.

  • New grant was awarded from the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources for research on
    “State Estimation and Attack Detection in Smart Grids” starting from January 2019.

  • Congratulations to Shlomit for winning the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources
    scholarship for excellent students in
    engineering and exact science (Dec. 2018).

  • We organize (with Dr. Yili Xia, Southeast University) the special session
    “Statistical Signal Processing for Smart Grid Applications” at ICASSP 2019.

  • A warm welcome to the new members in our lab: Shlomit, Neta, Ariel, and Itai! (Oct. 2018)

  • Congratulations to Nadav for winning the “Hi-Tech Scholarship” for his Ph.D. and to Eyal
    Nitzan for his short-term post-doctoral fellowship. Both scholarships are from the Kreitman School (Oct. 2018).

  • Tirza has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member (Aug. 2018).

  • Congratulations to Shir for winning the Ministry of Science and
    Technology of Israel scholarship for excellent students in
    engineering and exact science (Aug. 2018).

  • Congratulations to Sivan, who has graduated with a cum laude at her B.Sc.!

  • Congratulations to Eyal Nitzan! Eyal's paper on “Limitations of Constrained CRB and an Alternative Bound”
    has been selected as one of the three winners of the best student paper award at the SSP 2018 conference.

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  • Congratulations to Idan Gera and Yair Yakoby for winning the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Project Award for their B.Sc. research projects for the year 2017 (June 2018).

  • Congratulations to Shir for awarding a certificate of excellence on behalf of the University Rector! (April 2018)

  • Presentations at conferences:

    • Nadav presented his work on “Estimation methods after parameter selection” in the Workshop on “Post-selection Inference and Multiple Testing” February 2018 in Toulouse

    • Ido and Daniel presented their work on “Incorporation of Historical Data for Malicious Attack Detection in Smart Grids,” and Nadav presented his work on “Estimation methods after parameter selection” at The IEEE Israel Conference of Students and Young Professionals, April 2018 at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    • Eyal Nitzan will present his work on “Limitations of Constrained CRB and an Alternative Bound,” and Elad Meir will present his work on “Selective Cramér-Rao Bound for Estimation After Model Selection” at SSP 2018, Freiburg, Germany.

  • A warm welcome to the new members in our lab: Elisabeth and Eyal! (March 2018)

  • Congratulations to Elisabeth for winning the Post-Doctoral Scholarship of Kreitman School for Advances Research Studies! (Feb. 2018)

  • New grant was awarded from BGU Cyber Security Research Center for research on
    “Cyber Security for Smart Grids” starting from December 2017.

  • Congratulations to Sivan for winning the Ministry of Science and
    Technology of Israel scholarship for excellent students in
    engineering and exact science (Aug. 2017).

  • Congratulations to Eyal for winning the Ministry of Science and
    Technology of Israel travel grant for active participation in an
    international conference (Aug. 2017).

  • A warm welcome to the new members in our lab: Gal, Shir, and Sivan! (Aug. 2017)

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  • Congratulations to Nadav for winning the Electrical and Computer
    Engineering Department Outstanding Project Award for his B.Sc.
    research projects (June 2017).

  • Congratulations to Yair and Almog for winning the Electrical and
    Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Project Award for their
    B.Sc. research projects (June 2017).

  • Congratulations to Dolev for winning the Electrical and Computer
    Engineering Department Outstanding Project Award for her B.Sc.
    research projects (June 2017).

  • We have been invited to present the work of Yair and Idan at the
    Symposium on Information Processing and Optimization for Smart Grids in
    GlobalSIP 2017 in Montreal.

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  • Congratulations to Yair and Almog for winning the “Excellent project of
    the Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel 2016”
    (2016).

  • Congratulations to Eyal for winning the IEEE SPS student travel grant for
    the conference SAM 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

  • We have been invited to present the work on cyclic Cramér-Rao-type
    bounds (jointly with Prof. Tabrikian) at the Special Session on
    Directional Estimation in Fusion 2016.

  • B.Sc. research projects (2016)

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