Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Dr. Aviv Censor is a faculty member in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion. He is well-known to high school and university students from all around Israel thanks to his hundreds of video lectures in academic and pre-academic mathematic classes that he uploaded to the Technion’s YouTube channel and that have gained millions of views. Just as popular is his dog Georgie, who is mentioned in the videos and even in the tests at the Technion. Over the last few years, Dr. Aviv Censor has been working in close cooperation with the Ministry of Education, within the framework of which the project “A New Online Direction” was launched, in which hundreds of 5-credit classrooms learn mathematics using the online videos and exercises of “Simply Mathematics” on Campus IL.

Dr. Aviv Sharon is a research fellow at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion. His academic studies center around scientific literacy and communication of science in an online environment.
Aviv has background in biological studies and in the instruction of biology to high school students, he is a local Haifa patriot and a musicals and podcasts enthusiast.

Dr. Ahmad Jabara is a senior lecturer at the School of Computer Science at Netanya Academic College, a research fellow and a staff member in the System Modelling Laboratory at the Technion, and an associate professor of software engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Industry and Management at the Technion. Between 2018 and 2019, Dr. Jabara was a staff member in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science at Connecticut University, USA, and between 2019-2020 he was a staff member in the Department of Computer Science and Cyber at Augusta University, Georgia, USA.
Dr. Jabara’s main areas of interests are software engineering, system engineering and the link between them. Dr. Jabara possesses excellent teaching skills, and over the years he has received several awards for excellence in teaching from higher education establishments, both in Israel and abroad.

.Author of the math blog “not precise”

Dr. Yael Barel-Ben David is a research fellow at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion, where she also manages the Citizen Laboratory – a center promoting collaboration between the Technion, Madatech and the community through projects of citizen science. Yael is a scholar, developer and facilitator of unique workshops on the subject of personalized communication of science to various audiences (further information may be found here).

Niva Wengrowicz holds a PhD from Bar-Ilan University and completed her postdoctoral studies at the Technion. Furthermore, she served as guest scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
Currently she is a teaching fellow and teaching staff member at the Faculty of Industry and Management at the Technion. Additionally, she is the coordinator of the specialization program in research and assessment and also the advisor on quantitative studies in the School of Professional Development at MOFET Institute.
Her main areas of interest include the engineering of model-based systems, systems thinking, verbal and visual representations of conceptual models, alternative assessment, and technology-rich learning environments.

Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar is a professor at the Technion, retired since 2004. Holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a master’s degree from the Technion and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her field of specialty is mathematical education.
The founder and director for more than 30 years of “Kesher Cham” – Research and Development Centre for the Advancement and Improvement of Mathematics Education in Israel; was the director of the National Museum of Science in Haifa; was head of the Teaching of Sciences Department at the Technion; trained pre-service teachers in teaching mathematics for secondary school; headed the writing staff of innovative curricula in mathematics for both struggling and gifted students, including the dramatic mathematics program series titled “Simple Math”, produced by the Israeli Educational Television, which won international awards.
Published many articles in professional journals, including one (co-authored with I. Kleiner), which won the Lester Ford Award, and one book (with John Webb) about paradoxes, which became a bestseller.
Has educated a generation of research students just as passionate as her to endear mathematics to the youth.
Since 2009 has been enjoying giving lectures to the general public on mathematics. Has also served in the consultant committee of the American Museum of Mathematics in New York since its opening in 2012. Currently dedicates herself to exposing high school students to breaking news in the field of contemporary mathematics, to developing the “Teacher’s Traffic Light” website in which various repositories of learning and teaching materials are available for teachers, and to personalizing mathematics instruction to the individual needs and unique skills of students with differing abilities, using highly advanced technologies.

Born in Argentina, immigrated to Israel in 1972 and has been living in Haifa since then. Upon completion of her secondary education and her military duty, she completed a bachelor’s degree at Haifa University and both a master’s and a PhD at the Technion. Currently she is a lecturer in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion, as well an instruction advisor for Technion staff.
Additionally, she is the head of the Department of Mathematics at Gordon College of Education, where she is also a lecturer.

Dr. Rami Cohen is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, with more than 20 years’ worth of experience in the high-tech industry and in teaching, as a teacher of introductory courses and advanced courses in computer science. Rami completed his doctoral studies in the faculty in 2008.

A lecturer and teaching assistant in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion. Has extensive experience in teaching 1st year courses such as algebra and calculus, including in the Odyssey Program for science-oriented youth at the Technion. One of the most prominent figures of pre-academic activity at the faculty: developing and providing academic guidance to the online mathematics prep-course, writing and validating classification exams in mathematics.

Holds a PhD in electrical engineering, has extensive experience in the industry, a scholar at the Transportation Research Institute in the field of autonomous vehicles and ethical aspects of engineering.

Yael is a teaching fellow at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion and a staff member in the Department of Electronics at Ort Braude College. Yael holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and a master’s degree in business management and electrical engineering, all from the Technion. Yael won the Chillag Award for excellence in teaching.

Prof. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari is the head of the science communication research group at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion and a former journalist. Ayelet is the recipient of the higher education award for young staff members whose academic activity constitutes a major contribution to society (2021); the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education at the Technion (2015); and Alon scholarship for support of outstanding young scientists (2011). She is a graduate of the Israel Young Academy (2016-2020) and the first, and so far only, Israeli to be appointed to the scientific board of the PCST, the international organization for the Public Communication of Science and Technology (2016-2021).

She completed her doctoral studies in 2007 at Weizmann Institute of Science in the field of teaching biology, and she has been a staff member at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology since 2008. In 2010 she spent one year at Cornell University, funded by the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, in order to promote research in the field of science communication in Israel. Her goal was to bridge the gap between the public’s right to know and its capacity to understand, as well as to support scientists who are interested in making their studies accessible to various audiences (for example).

Prof. Dov Dori is a life-long fellow of IEEE and a fellow in both INCOSE and IAPR. He is the head of the Systems Modelling Laboratory at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He has also been a recurring guest lecturer at MIT since 1993, when Prof. Dori developed a new methodology. A key figure in the field of system engineering of OPM-based systems. This is the first modelling language and methodology to be recognized as Standard ISO 19450:2015 in the industry.

Prof. Dori composed about 400 publications. He supervised over 60 students for advanced degrees both in Israel and in the USA, of which 13 have become staff members in several states. Prof. Dori headed 9 international conferences. He was co-chairperson of IEEE SMC in the field the engineering of model-based systems. His book on OPM from 2002 was cited more than 700 times. His book on the engineering of model-based systems serves as basis for this course. His studies have been funded by public and industrial sponsors, including the European Union and Airbus. He is the recipient of various awards for research and innovation, and he is a member of the Omega Alpha Association, the international honorary association for system engineering.

Director of the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, with an emphasis on advanced technologies. A professor of law at IDC Herzliya.
A research fellow in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, in association with the Center for AI and Data Governance at Singapore Management University.
Dov holds degrees and a postdoctoral scholarship from Yale University, Berkeley University, Stanford University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.
Dov is a practicing lawyer in the field of intellectual property.

Moris S. Eisen immigrated to Israel in 1977 from Colombia, South America. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Jochanan Blum. In 1990 as a Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow, he joined Prof. Tobin J. Marks’ group at Northwestern University. In 1993 he was awarded the State of Israel Alon Fellowship and joined the Department of Chemistry at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (since 2007, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry). Since 2003 he has been a full Professor incumbent of the Samuel O. Friedlander Academic Chair in Chemistry.

Ido studies the development, support, and evaluation of learning competencies focusing on scientific literacies, creative problem-solving, and sense making. His research utilizes large-scale fine-grain data to identify student learning strategies, interpret these, and offer intelligent support. His work is rooted in frameworks and methodologies from cognitive science, education, learning analytics, and human-computer interaction.

Ido received his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. Following, he was the Director of the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in University of British Columbia. Ido was on the Executive Board of the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education. He is also a member of OCED’s PISA Expert Group.