TECHNION PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Cover: Superconducting Quantum Circuits Lab in the Helen Diller Center for Quantum Science, Matter and Engineering PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

REVIEWING A DECADE OF THE TECHNION ETHOS OF ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE

In recent years, a new spirit has pervaded all areas of life, from academia to industry, through to the new technologies on which our lives depend. This is the spirit of innovation. In the 21st century, innovation is Israel, is Technion. As a nexus in the global ecosystem of progress, we are proud to offer the 2019 Technion President’s Report under the banner iTechnion. I #iTechnion From Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie

elcome to the 2019 President’s Re- speech laying out the goals and priorities Strategic Goal: W port, in which we review a decade of for my presidency. This strategic vision Replenishing the Faculty progress and look forward to continu- arose out of an intimate knowledge of In 2009, Technion’s faculty had been ing fruition of the Technion vision. the university since joining the faculty in reduced due to a wave of retiring baby 1975. Prior to my presidency, I was dean boomers. The departure of a large cohort When I received the tremendous honor of of the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of professors affected the quality of the becoming Technion President ten years of Medicine for six years and Technion education and research. Consequently, ago, I felt that I was handed an enormous Vice President for Resource Development a top priority was to refill the faculty’s responsibility: not only to maintain Tech- and External Relations for seven years. ranks with first-rate young professors. nion’s status as Israel’s first and lead- ing university but to steer it onward and This year’s President’s Report has a dual I was personally involved in recruiting upward to new levels of excellence and role. As always, it relates Technion’s candidates, meeting with the most prom- global standing. The challenges along the development since the last Board of ising men and women in their fields to way were numerous, but now that I am Governors meeting, but this year, we also persuade them to join Technion. The only completing my tenure, I look back at the summarize the progress of the entire last way to replenish the faculty with outstand- last decade with satisfaction. Technion’s decade. It is an opportunity to revisit our ing educators and scientists would be to role at the forefront of science and tech- strategic vision of 2009 and compare it provide up-and-coming stars with cut- nology is indisputable, both in Israel and to what actually unfolded. ting-edge laboratory facilities on a par around the world. with those at top universities around the At the time, I divided my strategic vision world. Consequently, during my tenure When I became President, the global fi- into fields which I deemed critical to the dozens of state-of-the-art labs were built nancial crisis of 2008 was fresh and Israeli university’s development: recruiting new and renovated throughout the campus higher education was in an existential crisis, faculty, improving the student experience, in order to accommodate incoming new caused by the proliferation of new private advancing the level of research conducted faculty – most of whom were moving back colleges and by the diminished status of on campus, developing the campus, and to Israel after spending years at the finest academia within Israeli society in general. strengthening Technion’s global role. institutions in the world. A large share of the campus development budget was At the beginning of my tenure, I presented allocated to these projects every year. a vision to the academic assembly in a PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Orientation day for new faculty, 2018

Approximately half of Technion’s current other important steps. The Students As- All these efforts have begun to bear fruit, faculty was hired in the past ten years. See sociation has been involved in the ongoing and we have made a quantum leap in page 6 to meet some of these impressive efforts to improve the student experience recent years. Technion has now been young professors. at the university. voted the top Israeli university for student satisfaction for three consecutive years! Strategic Goal: The Technion Center for Promotion of Upgrading the Student Experience Learning and Teaching continues to play a Strategic Goal: It is a delight to be part of the heightened key role in upgrading the quality of teach- Advancing Basic and spirit on campus. Over the past decade, ing, which is a critical factor for improving Applied Research the overall student experience at Technion student satisfaction. Intensive efforts are A fundamental part of the Technion found- has changed dramatically. Despite being being made to introduce more dynamic ing vision is to empower Technion’s position a first-rate teaching university, many as- and flexible learning environments, as at the front line of scientific and technologi- pects of student life were not optimal ten well as innovative, non-traditional forms cal research and development. In joining years ago, and this meant that a growing of learning suitable to the 21st century, the ranks of the world’s leading scientific number of excellent potential students such as MOOCs, flipped classrooms and and technological research universities, were choosing to study elsewhere. We video lectures. (See page 12) Technion is of service to the State of Israel made it a top priority to empower a nur- and to all of humanity. In addition to hiring turing and inspiring educational environ- Another initiative with a significant im- top researchers to join our faculty, the fund- ment in which each and every student pact on teaching quality is the Yanai Prize ing of research labs and equipment has can flourish. for Excellence in Academic Education. increased by 93 percent. Moreover, we have Launched in 2011, the Yanai Prize recog- dedicated a great deal of energy to rais- A committee headed by Prof. Yachin nizes faculty members who set an exam- ing funds for research. During my tenure, Cohen was tasked with examining the ple through their valuable contributions sponsored research from external sources student workload, and its findings led to to teaching, and who strive to improve has grown by 50 percent, from $61.7 million important changes implemented as of student involvement which enhances the in 2009 to $92.8 million in 2018. 2013. These included shortening the se- sense of belonging. The prize is consid- mesters and the exam periods, as well as ered prestigious and provides an incentive We have also encouraged collaboration coordinating and balancing the workloads to improve classroom performance and between Technion scientists and industry. of students in different faculties, among interaction with students. (See page 14) The new Center for Machine Learning Construction of the new Susan and David Wilstein Gate Solar panels atop the Sara and Moshe Zisapel Nanoelectronics Center

and Intelligent Systems that was re- aged tissue, revolutionize information During the last ten years, three new build- cently inaugurated, in partnership with processing and predict the effectiveness ings have been inaugurated: the Emerson Intel Corporation, is just one example of antibiotic cocktails, among many other Family Life Sciences Building, the D. Dan of a 21st century Technion platform that exciting advances. (See page 16) and Betty Kahn Mechanical Engineering facilitates cooperation between Technion Building and the David and Janet Polak faculties and high-tech companies, both Thanks to the hard work of T3, the Tech- Visitors Center. During this period, many Israeli and multinational. (See page 20) nion Technology Transfer Unit, optimal older buildings underwent significant alliances are being forged between sci- renovations, and labs were added and Another focus has been to increase global entists, industry and investors in order to upgraded on a massive scale throughout collaboration. Technion has academic bring Technion innovations to the mar- the campus. collaboration agreements with 213 uni- ketplace. The new DRIVE accelerator pro- versities in 41 different countries, and has gram for entrepreneurs who are part of The Technion is giving a whole new kind submitted 15 cooperation projects within the Technion community and whose start- of welcome to visitors. All entrances to the Erasmus+ program to strengthen ups are in the pre-seed or seed stages Technion City have been upgraded and the cooperation with European universities. is also showing impressive results after new main gates and approach roads are (See page 36) only 2.5 years. (See page 35) designed to ease traffic. Other large-scale ongoing projects included accessibility, Technion frequently makes headlines Strategic Goal: and the upgrading of basic infrastructure thanks to the numerous, highly impres- Campus Development such as air-conditioning and water-saving sive breakthroughs emanating from its We have invested heavily in state-of-the- systems, and improving campus safety. labs. It is heart-warming that many of art facilities and increased accommodation these groundbreaking discoveries are units on campus. Our priority has been to In addition, nearly 1,000 new dorm improving the world and benefitting hu- develop our beautiful campus on Mount beds have been added thanks to sev- manity. Just this past year, the work of Carmel to ensure that it keeps pace with eral major projects: the construction of our scientists is expected to improve the the university’s growing needs. the Stanley Shalom Zielony Graduate quality of brain scans, regenerate dam- Student Village, the new undergraduate PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Rededication of the Rosen Solid State Research Building Technion’s campus at CornellTech in New York City

student village, and substantial renova- student exchange programs has risen opened in 2017; and the Joan and Irwin tions of the Canada Dormitory Village sharply. Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, opened and the Rifkin Dormitories. Two more in 2013 as a partnership between Cornell 14-story towers with 314 beds will be During my tenure, we have seen a sig- University and Technion. (See page 38) ready in 2020. nificant increase in academic collabora- tions in the global arena and particularly It is wonderful to share with you that we See page 10 for a map of the campus with Europe. have made significant progress with each that highlights the changes made in the of our strategic goals. Technion is an past decade. On January 1, 2019, Technion became institution whose local and global con- the sixth member of the prestigious tribution is considerable - in excellence, Strategic Goal: EuroTech Universities Alliance, a teaching, innovation, and outstanding sci- Globalization network of top-tier research-based entific and technological breakthroughs. Our ambitious strategy of 2009 spoke universities known for their scien- It has been an honor to stand at the helm of the critical importance of facilitating tific excellence and vibrant innovation of this venerable institution and I am Technion’s expansion from the local to ecosystems. The combination with the confident that Technion will continue on the global arena. To this end, I led several great strengths of the other members a course of excellence and success for large-scale initiatives aimed at deepening of the alliance, an elite group of Euro- many more years to come. It is with deep Technion’s ties with the international pean universities similar to Technion, will gratitude that I end my tenure as Tech- scientific and academic community. help us ensure we are at the forefront nion President, passing on the beacon of scientific research. of the Technion vision to my successor, The Technion International School, of- Prof. Uri Sivan. fering English-language degrees and The jewel in the crown of Technion’s glo- numerous academic programs, has balization efforts, however, is the open- grown from 39 students in 2009 to over ing of our two overseas campuses. The 1,000 in 2018. The number of Technion Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Peretz Lavie students taking part in international Technology (GTIIT) in Shantou, China, MY TECHNION MYIMPASSIONED, INDUSTRIOUS, INSPIREDTECHNION Meet some of the outstanding young professors who are bringing fresh energy and cutting-edge research to Technion, Israel and the world.

STRATEGIC GOAL: ATTRACTING THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST NEW FACULTY

Asst. Prof. Ido Kaminer ANDREW AND ERNA VITERBI FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Ido Kaminer joined Technion as an assistant professor and an Azrieli Faculty Fellow in 2018, when he returned to Israel after a postdoc at MIT. He currently holds the Technion’s Prof. Ashraf Brik Jacques Lewiner Career Advancement Chair. SCHULICH FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY MY TECHNION “One major reason that brought me to Technion was the Ashraf Brik, who is an Arab Israeli, received his PhD decision to invest in an ultrafast transmission electron in Bioorganic Chemistry from Technion and was a microscope. This facility is unique in Israel and one of only a research associate at the Scripps Research Institute few in the world, enabling powerful research capabilities.” in California from 2002 to 2006. He returned to Israel in 2007, joining Ben-Gurion University’s faculty before Prof. Kaminer’s research on applications of quantum being recruited in 2015 by Technion’s Schulich Faculty mechanics and quantum electrodynamics applies ideas of Chemistry as a Neubauer professor. from the field of light-matter interactions to nanophotonics with 2D material platforms. His group is developing new Brik is well known for his contributions to the microscopy techniques in novel materials using ultrafast development of chemical approaches to prepare lasers and electron microscopes. posttranslationally modified proteins for biochemical, biophysical and functional analyses. In particular his During his PhD studies at Technion, Prof. Kaminer group has developed chemical methods to prepare discovered new classes of accelerating beams in nonlinear ubiquitin-based conjugates, which opened the door for optics and electromagnetism, for which he received the 2012 several studies that were not previously feasible. Israel Physical Society Prize and the 2014 APS Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Laser Science. MY TECHNION “The university has an excellent environment for my type of research.” Kaminer, 33, lives in a faculty apartment on the Technion campus. He has wide interests including sports, traveling, Brik is an elected member of the Israel Young Academy hiking, and the history of Israel and Judaism. of Sciences, and recipient of the ERC Advanced Grant. He has over 120 publications in top journals, holds several patents, and has received numerous prestigious awards. He is 45, lives in Haifa and has two children. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019 MY TECHNION 7

Assoc. Prof. Moran Bercovici Asst. Prof. Adi Radian FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Moran Bercovici, associate professor of analytical Adi Radian is an environmental chemist who, during her chemistry at Technion, is one of three outstanding recipients post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota, of the 2019 Blavatnik Israel Award for Young Scientists. designed encapsulation matrices for bacteria in order to He was recognized for developing novel microfluidic improve bioremediation technologies. She joined Technion in technologies for microscale manipulations of fluids and 2016 as an assistant professor. molecules. MY TECHNION A central theme in Prof. Bercovici’s lab has been the “I chose Technion mainly for the high quality of students, development of new microfluidic devices and assays. His the available facilities and funds for young scientists – current focus is on exploring physical mechanisms for the and, of course, for it being in Israel.” development of highly configurable microfluidic devices. He and his team demonstrated the ability to control flow Today, Prof. Radian heads a lab which studies the fate of patterns using surface chemistry, field effect electrodes or pollutants in the environment and the development of temperature gradients, all without the use of physical walls. comprehensive and sustainable soil and water remediation Prof. Bercovici joined Technion in 2011, following his postdoc solutions. Her team also designs and applies clay minerals at the Stanford University School of Medicine. and metal oxides as catalytic surfaces to improve and develop remediation technologies. Their work alongside Prof. Ayelet Fishman from the Faculty of Biotechnology and MY TECHNION Food Engineering has resulted in a provisional patent that “I was actively recruited by Prof. Pini Bar-Yoseph, who was then- hopefully will become applicable in the future. dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and by Dist. Prof. Moti Segev, who convinced me that one can conduct research at Aside from conducting research, Prof. Radian also finds Technion that is comparable to or better than any top US her role as a mentor and lecturer to be very important and universities. Both believed in me way before I believed in myself.” fulfilling. “I am devoted to my teaching and feel I can make a real difference through my work in the classroom,” she says. This year, she received a teaching excellence award for her Bercovici, 36, lives in Haifa with his wife and two “Introduction to Soil Chemistry” course. daughters. In addition to research, he also enjoys playing the saxophone. Radian lives in Kiryat Tivon with her husband Oren and their three young sons, aged 6, 4 and 2. YOUNG faculty

Asst. Prof. Shay Hacohen-Gourgy Assoc. Prof. Yael Yaniv FACULTY OF PHYSICS FACULTY OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Shay Hacohen-Gourgy is an experimental physicist who Yael Yaniv joined Technion’s Faculty of Biomedical joined Technion in 2017 after a postdoc at UC Berkeley. Engineering as assistant professor in March 2014, following a postdoc and research fellowship at the National Institute MY TECHNION on Aging–National Institutes of Health in the U.S. She “I wanted to join Technion as it educates high-quality received her BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from Technion. students and hosts high-quality fabrication infrastructure, which are important for building a MY TECHNION successful lab and research group.” “I joined Technion’s faculty because if you want to be the best you must join the best!” Prof. Hacohen-Gourgy works on quantum circuits built from superconducting materials. His most substantial Prof. Yaniv’s research focuses on two main objectives: achievement has been demonstrating a simultaneous understanding the molecular mechanisms that control heart measurement of non-commuting observables. The rate dynamics and developing algorithms to identify changes dynamics of such a measurement had been an open in heartbeat dynamics in a time window that will allow experimental problem until this demonstration, which prediction of future cardiac events or provide treatment in was published in Nature and opened a path for a wide the early stages of a disease. array of new capabilities for quantum systems. When using the current methods to quantify changes in He has also been active with small-scale quantum heartbeat dynamics, it is too late to provide a treatment simulators as tools to better understand certain to reverse the heart condition. In the last five years, Prof. physical models. In particular, he was involved in an Yaniv’s lab has discovered that both Ca2+ and phosphate emulation of a three-site one-dimensional Bose- ions control heart rate dynamics; used computational work Hubbard lattice with attractive on-site interactions, that led to two pharmacological approaches and one gene showing that selected states can actively be stabilized manipulation method to restore the beating rate of aged – an important feat for future quantum simulators and heart pacemaker cells to that of normal adult cells; and quantum annealers. Recently, Prof. Hacohen-Gourgy developed algorithms to predict fatal arrhythmias. has been working on using machine learning to aid in measurement and control of quantum systems. Yaniv, 38, is married and has a baby daughter.

Hacohen-Gourgy, 38, lives in Nofit with his wife and two daughters. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019 YOUNG faculty 9

263 faculty members recruited over the past decade

Asst. Prof. Yaron Fuchs Asst. Prof. Oksana Stalnov FACULTY OF BIOLOGY FACULTY OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

After completing his PhD at Technion and his postdoc in the Oksana Stalnov was born in Minsk, Belarus, and her U.S., Yaron Fuchs returned to Israel in 2014 as an assistant family immigrated to Israel when she was 11, settling professor at Technion’s Faculty of Biology, where he heads in Kiryat Gat. She received her MSc and PhD degrees in the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Mechanical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, and in Medicine. 2012 was appointed a research fellow at the University of Southampton, England. In 2017 she returned to Israel MY TECHNION and joined Technion as an assistant professor in the “I returned to Technion as I deeply love this institute. I Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. think the level of science here is truly phenomenal and as Technion is solely dedicated to science and technology, MY TECHNION it represents a unique environment that nourishes “The Faculty is world renowned in the field of Aerospace interdisciplinary collaborations.” Engineering, and Technion offered me the opportunity to establish a state-of-the-art research group.” Fuchs has had a long-term interest in different modes of cell death and how they regulate diverse aspects of stem cell At the heart of her research is the question of how noise biology and stem cell-dependent processes. Fuchs and his is generated when unsteady flow interacts with a blade, team discovered that by manipulating the process of stem cell where many complex phenomena take place within the suicide, they can dramatically accelerate the wound repair boundary layer; and how this knowledge can be used to process in both the skin and intestine. In addition, they have enhance performance. She is developing new diagnostic been able to find a potential new cure for melanoma, generate tools and modelling techniques, which will enable a different organs in the dish, and unearth novel stem cell step change in the understanding of noise generation populations. mechanisms and the development of advanced flow and noise control strategies.

Fuchs, who is 40, has received more than 20 awards for his scientific excellence and his unique teaching style, including Stalnov, 39, lives in Haifa with her husband, 7-year-old the Wolf Foundation Krill Award and the American Association son and 2.5-year-old daughter. for Advancement of Science (AAAS) Sartorius and Science Grand Prize for Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy. He lives in Haifa with his wife and two children. Strategic Goal: NEW CONSTRUCTION / BUILDINGS UNDER Building the RENOVATION CONSTRUCTION 1 Stanley Shalom Zielony Student 16 “Broshim” Dormitories: campus of Union Building – new wing and two new 14-story towers overall renovation (2009) 17 Amos Horev Sports Arena the future Completion of 4th floor (2016) 2 D. Dan and Betty Kahn Mechanical 2009 2019 Engineering Building RENOVATION PROJECTS - (2010) UNDERWAY 3 Stanley Shalom Zielony Graduate Student Village (2010) Technion Strategic Master Plan and Community Center (2015) for Physical Development 4 Senate Building – Senate Hall renovation (2012) General Campus 5 Undergraduate Student Village Upgrading all dormitories (2016) Major renovations in Canada 6 Grand Technion Energy Village and Rifkin Dormitories Program floor (2016) Upgrading infrastructure 7 Hadarion (2016) throughout campus, including A/C 8 Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) and water-saving systems Lab (2016) Campus safety upgrades, including 9 Southern Palm Beach Chapter fire prevention zone Expansion of the Fried Student Making campus facilities Counselling Center (2017) accessible for disabled individuals: 10 Rosen Solid State Institute: improving accessibility both inside renovation (2017) buildings and in outdoor areas 11 David and Janet Polak Visitors Center (2018) Faculties 12 Taub Family Terrace Schulich Faculty of Chemistry: (2018) labs, teaching facilities, library, 13 Ullmann Teaching Center – infrastructure additional floor, structural Rappaport Faculty of Medicine reinforcement, sheltered areas Wolfson Faculty of Chemical and elevators (2018) Engineering 14 Churchill Plaza renovation (2019) Renovating and adding labs 15 Susan and David Wilstein Gate and in all faculties Clara Franziska Mertens Gate (2019) 7 HADAR MOUNT CARMEL CAMPUS

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S Technion Campus 2019 Captured by International Student Yanyao Li STRATEGIC GOAL: RETHINKING EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF THE

Over 650 students recently participated in a 30-hour FUTURE hackathon - the largest ever held in Israel Universities must adapt in order to thrive. Technion is reinventing “ educational paradigms At Technion, these changes are being in order to empower spearheaded by the Technion Center future generations. for Promotion of Learning and Teach- “Education is ing. “Technion is a leader in academic going to be education, encouraging pedagogical personalized. innovations and promoting state-of- We are adapting W the-art instructional methods as role the methods to e are at the cusp of a sweeping models for other universities,” notes Dr. the students.” - Assoc. Prof. evolution, if not an outright revolution. Abigail Barzilai, who heads the Center. Miri Barak Not long ago, we only had chalkboards, books and notebooks, but the modern FROM A SAGE ON THE STAGE digital age generated MOOCs, flipped TO A GUIDE ON THE SIDE ” classrooms, video lectures, project- In a digital learning environment, based learning and peer instruction. courses will be customized to the Indeed, globalization and accelerated unique needs of individual students. technological development require a Thanks to technological and pedagog- “Education is going to be personalized rethinking of teaching and learning pro- ical innovations, education is rapidly and we are in the process of adapting cesses in 21st century higher education. becoming more personalized. We are new instructional methods to meet the In the past, only the lecturers had ac- witnessing a transition to innovative, students’ needs,” reveals Assoc. Prof. cess to new information, but today web non-traditional forms of learning that Miri Barak, Head of the Science and and cloud technologies connect stu- promote student involvement through Learning Technologies group in the dents to a pipeline of infinite informa- hands-on experience. The learning Faculty of Education in Science and tion and they can share knowledge with environment is becoming 24/7, with Technology, adding that, “Teaching is people from all over the world. Since greater flexibility, customization and shifting from lectures to small group students perceive classroom lectures real-time engagement. settings – from a sage on the stage to as anachronistic, meaningful learning a guide on the side.” must occur in new ways. UNIVERSITY OF THE FUTURE the classroom, thehumanfactor will Despite technology’s expanding role in THE HUMANFACTOR teaching styles. signed to meettheneedsofthese new innovative classrooms specifically de renovated UllmannBuilding includes than inaclassroom. Technion’s newly pace and intheirown free time,rather to watch lectures onlineattheir own day, itiseasierfor manyyoung people solving problems in small groups. To the purposeofdeeperdiscussions and pects athomeandcome to class for where students learn theoretical as- ing steam isthe‘flipped classroom,’ Another learning modelthatis gain- the private sector. peers from allover theworld andwith groups, often incollaboration with spread: students willwork mainly in Project-based learning willbewide- from large lectures to smallgroups. ate inthenearfuture isthetransition One ofthetrends thatwillacceler a t-hubevent oncampus Israel’s R&DCenter, addresses Assaf Rappaport, CEOofMicrosoft - - - fields, seven are Technion courses. 15 MOOCs produced in Israel in these Council for HigherEducation. Ofthe Computer Science onbehalfofthe that produce MOOCs inbasicMathand sortium ofseven Israeli universities is a leader in this field, heading a con ing exponentially. InIsrael, Technion and, assuch,theirpopularityisgrow es –epitomize thefuture ofeducation MOOCs –Massive OpenOnlineCours GENERATIONTHE MOOC learning andworking inteams. well asadaptingto interdisciplinary ics, multiculturalism andcreativity, as interpersonal communications, eth- such asentrepreneurial thinking, Students willlearn more “soft skills” their students. level andwillprovide addedvalue to will focus onimpartingskillsatahigh continue to beimportant. Teachers increasingly professional andsophis demand for MOOCs, aswell asthe In order to keep upwiththegrowing - - - - As more courses are available online, become tomorrow’s top universities. that are top suppliers ofMOOCs will Prof. Barak predicts thatuniversities universities needprofessional studios. ticated production ofthesecourses, attuned to theneedsoftomorrow. pedagogical andtechnological leader novation, Technion continues to bea At the epicenter of educational in and willenrichlearning. ity willbecommon intheclassroom five years virtual and augmented real digital. Dr. Barzilai expects that within ment courses inthehumanitieswillbe introductory-level courses andenrich available online.Inthefuture, most ics, Chemistry andMath–are already courses atTechnion –suchasPhys- hands-on experience. Preparatory port through direct mentorship and sources to offering educational sup- universities willincreasingly shiftre PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019 - - - - 13 INITIATE, INVESTIGATE, INTELLECT A Class of Their Own

STRATEGIC GOAL: REWARDING EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

The Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education, which was awarded for the first time in 2011, has become a status symbol among Technion faculty – This year’s Yanai Prize ceremony. (l-r) Moshe Yanai, Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie, Students Association Chair Amir David Nissan-Cohen and Yanai recipient Assoc. Prof. Adi Salzberg reaffirming the importance of effective teaching.

O ne of the goals set a decade ago was to The prize is awarded in appreciation for recognize excellence in teaching. faculty members who set an example “ through their valuable contributions to To this end, the Yanai Prize for Excellence teaching, and who strive to improve stu- in Academic Education was launched dent involvement and sense of belonging “The main reward eight years ago together with Moshe to Technion. By honoring faculty, who are is not prestige Yanai, a Technion alumnus and global not only excellent researchers but also and money but your pioneer in the field of information stor- outstanding lecturers, the Yanai Prize opportunity to age. Yanai, together with his wife Ra- sends a clear message that teaching change and influence chel, sought to give back to Technion in quality is supremely important. people’s lives” gratitude for the life skills that he gained - Moshe Yanai during his studies nearly 50 years ago. Since it was established, 69 professors He contributed $10 million to reward have received the Yanai Prize, including lecturers who demonstrate teaching ex- five this year. cellence. The prize he endowed awards 100,000 shekels to each recipient. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Assoc. Prof. Avi Schroeder Congratulations to Wolfson Faculty of this year’s winners! Chemical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Keren Censor-Hillel “I developed a teach- Faculty of Computer Science ing method based on Assoc. Prof. Daniel Orenstein “Although the main goal of teaching ‘individually adapted Faculty of Architecture is to convey the material on the syl- teaching’ – a way of and Town Planning labus, I aspire to expand the students’ learning whereby each “My students receive a horizons and therefore I encourage subject is studied from several dif- solid knowledge base that them to gain research experience. I ferent angles, in complete cooperation enables them to critically believe in active learning. The website with the students. This multi-dimen- evaluate and understand Socrative.com is an important tool sional view enables the students to the factors that affect the for me; it enables students to choose express their aptitudes while acquir- main environmental challenges of answers to problems that I ask them. ing an in-depth understanding of the our generation. They learn to acquire I also use other interactive tools in subject in question. As a Technion many different types of knowledge, order to make the material more ac- professor, I feel it is an honor to be from academic textbooks and litera- cessible to the students.” an active partner together with the ture, from the cumulative experience students in building their skills and of experts, from people’s everyday their professional futures.” lives, and from the students’ own life experiences.” Assoc. Prof. Daniella Raveh Faculty of Aerospace Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty Engineering of Electrical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Adi Salzberg “I view training students as my fore- The faculty received the Yanai Prize Rappaport Faculty of Medicine most responsibility as a faculty mem- this year as a result of its continu- “I demand a high degree of in- ber. I believe that my unique contribu- ous improvement in teaching scores vestment from my students, so that tion to teaching comes from working and the many personal prizes they will have a high level of knowledge with students in various frameworks awarded to both senior and junior and understanding, but at the same and through continuous interaction, as faculty in recent years. The Faculty time I demand the same from myself. well as by being available to listen and has established an extensive sup- I invest a great deal of time and energy give advice. I am especially proud of my port network for students in order in frontal instruction and I spend many contribution as an advisor for student to respond effectively to all prob- hours preparing my course. Further- research projects and experiments.” lems that arise during their stud- more, I spend a lot of time in personal ies. The Faculty works with student meetings with students.” representatives to improve the stu- dent experience, nurture a pleasant social atmosphere, discuss changes HONORABLE MENTIONS: The Yanai Excellence in Teaching Prize was awarded to Assoc. Prof. Roee in the curricula, plan the class and Amit of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Assoc. Prof. exam schedules, and balance the Yael Yaniv of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, and Asst. Prof. Roi student work load. Reichart of the Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS 2018-2019

STRATEGIC GOAL: ADVANCING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

IMAGING AI Improved Brain Scans Artificial Intelligence Hardware: 1000x Faster An interdisciplinary research team at A team led by Asst. Prof. Shahar Kva- Technion has developed nanometric tinsky at the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical particles that will improve the quality of Engineering has developed hardware for brain scans by combining MRIs and light machine learning that is much faster than microscope photography. regular graphic processor units, yet re- quires much less energy. The team from the Russell Berrie Nano- technology Institute is led by Assoc. Prof. Most artificial intelligence applications rely Lilac Amirav from the Schulich Faculty of on computers that run programs using Chemistry, together with Dr. Shai Berlin mathematical models whose processing and Prof. Itamar Kahn from the Rappaport capabilities are insufficient. In order to Faculty of Medicine. accelerate the computation and reduce the energy, Prof. Kvatinsky’s team uses novel The problem with MRIs is that they don’t nano-scale devices called memristors to provide high enough resolutions at the level support deep neural networks using one of a single cell. Light microscopy, on the of the most popular learning techniques – other hand, is able to show single cells, but gradient descent with momentum. it requires that the tissue be penetrated. The nanometric particles developed at The research team developed a dedicated Technion are effective markers in that hardware based on memristors that is they are visible in both MRI scans and 1,000 times faster than GPUs, while us- light microscopes, and they can navigate ing seven times less energy. RESEARCHwithin the cells. BREAKTHROUGHS PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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TISSUE ENGINEERING QUANTUM MEDICINE Regenerating World’s 1st Quantum “Immune Age”: An Damaged Tissues Metamaterials Accurate Measure of Health Prof. Shulamit Levenberg of the Faculty of Two teams of Technion scientists have col- A team of Technion researchers led by As- Biomedical Engineering and her team have laborated to conduct trailblazing research soc. Prof. Shai Shen-Orr in collaboration brought successful tissue engineering a step which is leading to the development of a with Stanford University, have found that closer, paving the way for superior methods new and innovative scientific field: Quan- the state of our immune system provides of replacing damaged human tissue. tum Metamaterials. The study was jointly a more accurate measurement of health. conducted by Dist. Prof. Moti Segev, of the The field of tissue engineering involves tak- Physics Faculty, and his team, Tomer Stav The team has developed a way to gauge ing cells from the body and incorporating and Dikla Oren, in collaboration with Prof. “immune age,” which may push the limits them with very porous scaffold biomaterials, Erez Hasman of the Faculty of Mechanical of personalized medical treatment, drug which act as 3D templates that guide the Engineering and his team, Arkady Faerman, and vaccine clinical development, and growth of new tissue. Elhanan Maguid, and Dr. Vladimir Kleiner. health management. “Unlike your actual chronological age, your immune-age is Prof. Levenberg and her team found that The research demonstrates that it is directly linked to the state of your immune the most mature grafts with complex ves- possible to apply metamaterials to system, the body’s chief sentinel. We can sel networks increased graft-host vessel the field of quantum information and therefore capture medically relevant infor- anastomosis and improved penetration computing, thereby paving the way for mation using immune age that physicians of the vessels in the recipient. The less- numerous practical applications, such would otherwise miss,” explains Shen-Orr. mature vessels were less successful in as the development of unbreakable combining with the host tissue and caused encryptions, and new possibilities for RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHSmore clots to be formed. quantum information systems on a chip. ENVIRONMENT BIG DATA CT Scans for Clouds Will Chronic Use of β-Blockers Improve Climate Prediction Found to Increase the Risk of Parkinson’s Disease Inspired by medical CT scans, a space mis- A new study led by Visiting Prof. Kira Radin- sion consisting of tiny satellites will reveal sky of the Computer Science Faculty indi- detailed images of cloud structures and cates that chronic use of β-blockers con- properties, and may resolve some major fers a time- and dose-dependent increased uncertainties that limit current climate risk for Parkinson’s disease. prediction. Prof. Radinsky and her team used Mac- The project, which was recently awarded cabi Health Services electronic charts to €14 million by the European Research identify all patients receiving their first Council Synergy program, is led by Prof. β-blocker treatment. They calculated the Yoav Schechner of the Viterbi Faculty of morbidity hazard of Parkinson’s disease Electrical Engineering, an expert in com- diagnosis in users of β-blockers compared puter vision and computed tomography, with non-users, as well as users of angio- along with Prof. Ilan Koren from the Weiz- tensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors mann Institute of Science and Prof. Klaus for hypertension. The adjusted hazard ratio Schilling of the Center for Telematics in for Parkinson’s disease among β-blocker Würzburg, Germany. In analogy to the users was 1.51. In contrast, the Parkin- better-known medical CT, images will be son’s disease morbidity hazard for patients taken simultaneously from many directions receiving ACE inhibitors was no different around and above the clouds. This feat than for the general population. will be made possible by the networked self-organizing formation of multiple, in- RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHSexpensive, small satellites. & PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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INFORMATION PROCESSING HEALTH REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Revolutionizing Innovative System Predicts Revealing the Therapeutic Information Processing the Effectiveness of Promise of Programmed Antibiotic Cocktails Cell Death Technion researchers have succeeded in Researchers at the Faculty of Biology dis- Asst. Prof. Yaron Fuchs from the Faculty generating minute “nano-hedgehogs of covered an innovative system for measur- of Biology is the 2019 grand prize winner light” called optical skyrmions, which could ing the effectiveness of “antibiotic cock- of the Sartorius and Science Prize for Re- make possible revolutionary advances in tails” and proved that the variety of drugs generative Medicine and Cell Therapy, for information processing, transfer and stor- in the cocktail has a much larger impact work that reveals a role for programmed age. The research, published in Science, was than their dosages. stem cell death in wound healing and tis- led by Assoc. Prof. Guy Bartal of the Viterbi sue regeneration. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Assoc. The research was led by Prof. Roy Kishony Prof. Netanel Lindner of the Physics Faculty. of the Faculties of Biology and Computer The findings, described in his prize-winning Science, and his findings were recently essay, “The therapeutic promise of apopto- The researchers demonstrated that an elec- published in the journal Nature Microbi- sis,” could potentially pave the way to novel tric field can take on a “skyrmion” shape ology. Prof. Kishony’s team developed a regenerative medicine and tumor therapies and that these “light hedgehogs” are robust system that automatically and precisely that target stem cells undergoing apoptosis against various defects in the material host- measures the effect of different antibiotic – a type of programmed cell death. Prof. ing the electromagnetic waves. The new cocktails on bacteria. They found that the Fuchs heads the Laboratory of Stem Cell discovery could enable future replication of larger the number of different antibiotics in Biology and Regenerative Medicine. this unique effect in a wide range of systems the cocktail, the lower the doses required and materials, including liquids, nanopar- of each antibiotic without reducing the ticle systems and even cold atomic gases. cocktail’s effectiveness. It might also lay the ground for new sky- rmion applications in optical (rather than magnetic) information processing, transfer & and storage. MORE STRATEGIC GOAL: EXCELLENCE IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

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Center Stage Center Prof. Shie Mannor

echnion’s newlyAI inaugurated Prof. Shie Mannor of the Andrew and Erna Center for Machine Learning Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Systems is set to heads the new AI Center. Prof. Mannor is Tbecome a hub of creativity and an associate editor of the Journal of Ma- research that will benefit the scientific chine Learning Research, Operations Re- and medical communities, and industry. search and Math of Operations Research, and held the Canada Research Chair in Technion has succeeded in building a Machine Learning between 2005-2009 strong world-class AI group, with more while on the faculty of McGill University. ? than 20 faculty members carrying out first-rate theoretical and applied re- By promoting both pure and applied re- search. The new Center for Machine search in machine learning, the Center Learning and Intelligent Systems that serves as a bridge between academia and was recently inaugurated will maintain Israeli and global high-tech industries. It Technion’s position as one of the top uni- will educate hundreds of scientists and versities worldwide in both the research engineers and train researchers spe- and teaching of intelligent systems. cializing in data science and machine PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Technion autonomous Formula race car built by Technion students, cruises down Ayalon highway

PARTNERSHIP WITH INTEL The new AI Center enjoys especially close ties with Intel, the multinational semiconductor giant. Intel has had a strong relationship with learning, as well as attracting leading Technion for years, and it is a partner in the researchers from all over the world, and new Center. “As part of this collaboration with hosting industry and medical experts. Intel, the company supports research projects of Technion faculty members engaged in computational The Center provides a holistic multidis- learning and artificial intelligence together with ciplinary approach to the investigation of Intel researchers. The research covers a variety complex problems such as the applica- of areas, including natural language processing, tion of machine learning in personalized deep learning and hardware optimization for treatment of cancer. Its scope includes different learning algorithms,” Mannor explains. defense and homeland security, agritech, home and industrial robots, health and “We are proud of the cooperation with Technion, medicine, smart environments, fintech, which will promote Israeli technology and Intel’s and autonomous vehicles. technological leadership in the field of artificial intelligence,” Intel Israel CEO Yaniv Garty said Technion’s goal in establishing the Cen- at the inauguration ceremony. ter is to leverage its multidisciplinary ex- perience and expertise in fields such as science and technology that is vital to its data, information and computer sciences; security and economy. control theory; automation and robotics; The new Center is statistics and complex systems; neurosci- a one-stop-shop. Technion is well positioned to enhance its ences and more, in order to address rel- Now we can work many existing research relationships with evant challenges in artificial intelligence with much larger Israeli industry leaders and global compa- and machine learning science. companies with nies and to expand its range of partnerships complex needs. in areas that relate to the new Center. In As a leader in this field, Technion plays a - Prof. Shie Mannor this context, Technion has already estab- key role in the country’s efforts to main- lished close ties with Intel, Bank Hapoalim, tain and enhance the qualitative edge in Hyundai and other companies. IMAGINE, INVENT, INNOVATE The Quantum Imperative STRATEGIC GOAL: PIONEERING THE EDGE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

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ast June, Technion announced a $50 million Notable research breakthroughs include: gift from the Helen Diller Family Foun- > The first-ever topological insulator dation to support a new state-of-the-art laser - Prof. Moti Segev Lquantum center. Thanks to this gift, Tech- > The most advanced single and nion is poised to be a world leader in one of the entangled photon generating 21st century’s most important fields of science technique - Prof. David Gershoni and technology. > Metamaterial-based quantum manipulation - Prof. Erez The Helen Diller Center for Quantum Science, Matter Hasman and Prof. Moti Segev and Engineering is headed by Dist. Prof. Moti Segev > Advanced opto-atomic clocks - and Prof. Gadi Eisenstein. Prof. Segev is the Robert Prof. Gadi Eisenstein J. Shillman Distinguished Professor of Physics. Prof. Eisenstein holds the Mark and Diane Seiden Chair An Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscope fa- in Optoelectronics and is the director of the Russell cility, the only such system in Israel and one of a Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI). handful worldwide, will be inaugurated in 2019. In this system, the electron beam is pulsed – synchro- There are more than 30 faculty members engaged nized with an ultrafast optical pulse. It is used for in quantum-related research. The grant from the quantum electrodynamic experiments and other Helen Diller Family Foundation will enable Technion ultrafast quantum phenomena. to recruit ten new faculty members between 2018 and 2028. In November 2019, an important symposium or- ganized jointly by Technion and the newly formed Munich Quantum Center (which includes Ludwig Maximilian University, the Technical University of Munich, the Max Planck Institute and the Deutsche Museum) will take place at the Max Planck Institute in Garching near Munich. STUDENT MOSAIC

STRATEGIC GOAL: A THRIVING CAMPUS

Technion’s student body is more diverse than ever – with more women, minorities and international students than ever before.

Christine Khoury, 26, PhD Joseph Rodriguez, 21, BSc Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) Civil Engineering, Technion International

“I was born in a small village in Lebanon, and when “I grew up in Ecuador and I am proud to be a Technion I was seven, my family moved to Israel. In 2011, I student in Civil Engineering. I aim to someday work in started my studies at the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical the ever-growing construction industry. When I was Engineering and completed my BSc summa cum laude. younger, I had the opportunity to live in Tel Aviv with Technion provided me with a lot of intellectual chal- my family due to my Dad’s work. After experiencing lenges as well as allowing me to learn important skills life in Israel for a year, I knew it wasn’t going to be such as working in a team and self-learning. My re- my last time here. I found in Technion the school search topic is the ‘Transformation of Biomass-Derived that allowed me to fulfill my dream of both living Molecules to Fuels and Chemicals Using Cooperative in Israel and getting a top-level edu- Catalysis.’ As part of my research, I am trying to accel- cation. Throughout the past three erate environmentally-friendly reactions by designing years, this school has helped me and synthesizing new materials. In the future, I plan reach my academic potential, to work in R&D, using my skills to improve the yield learn from professors whom of chemical processes and suggesting sustainable I admire, and make lifelong alternatives to existing energy-intensive processes.” friendships. In my free time, I enjoy reading and playing sports such as soccer, tennis and chess.” PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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“I was raised in Tel Aviv and “I grew up in Jerusalem in a family of Gur Hassidim. in high school I was the cap- I live in Bnei Brak with my wife and three children. tain of my school’s FIRST I established an organization called “Haredim in robotics team. I have volun- Medicine” to help integrate Haredi men and women teered in this program ever into medical studies in Israel. I was attracted to this since. After serving in the IDF field since childhood, and for many years I volunteered as an artillery instructor, I moved with Magen David Adom. I am completing my sixth year to Haifa to study physics at Technion. I’m at Technion and plan to specialize in internal medicine or currently doing a Master’s degree in the Physics Fac- pediatrics. My biggest challenge was having to ulty with Prof. Noam Soker as my advisor. My research acquire pre-academic education when involves theoretical work in the field of Astrophysics. I was 20. I joined the first cohort of In my Master’s thesis, I hope to provide a theoretical the Technion program designed model for a peculiar supernova that was detected in to prepare Haredi students for 2014. As a daughter of Technion alumni, I always knew academic studies. What I love that I would study here. The things I like most about about Technion is that it is a Technion are the people and the atmosphere. I enjoy superb institution that leads in being surrounded by successful, interesting and excel- developing the country in every lent people. I like the fact that everyone’s main goal field – and always for the most here is to learn and understand more.” noble reasons.”

Boris Levin, 25, BArch Rotem Dror, 30 , PhD Architecture and Town Planning Natural Language Processing

“I was born in Saint Petersburg “I am half-way through my doctoral studies in natu- and when I was 16 I decided ral language processing at the Davidson Faculty of that I would make Aliyah and Industrial Engineering and Management. I am one of study at Technion to become 57 students from all over the world who was awarded an architect. I live in a dorm a Google Fellowship this year. I have spent my entire on campus and am consid- academic career at Technion.My research focuses ered a new immigrant, alone in on developing structured prediction algorithms for the country. The most challeng- natural language processing applications. I love to ing thing for students in the Faculty teach and my dream is to pursue a career in academia. of Architecture, I think, is a never-ending necessity I live in the Stanley Shalom Zielony to be creative, especially under the stress of a huge Graduate Student Village with my number of courses, projects and presentations. Nev- husband and young daughter. I ertheless, I do love my studies and try to appreciate love Technion. I was surprised everything that we have an opportunity to learn here. I that Technion chose me for believe that the technological approach and the deep the Google Fellowship com- research in topics such as urbanism, green architec- petition. The Fellowship is a ture and innovative infrastructure may be the answer vote of confidence. It’s a seri- to making our world a better place. Technion is the ous boost to my motivation.” very best place in Israel which can provide this sort of knowledge at the highest level.” I TECHNION TECHNION SPIRIT

STRATEGIC GOAL: prior to final exams. Each workshop is IMPROVING THE STUDENT 20 hours long and heavily subsidized. EXPERIENCE This year, the Technion Students Associa- The Technion Students tion (TSA) launched a new joint effort with Association isn’t only the the Center for Promotion of Learning and largest in Israel, it is also Teaching whose goal is to improve the qual- the most active – organizing ity of teaching at Technion. The Association a plethora of events and is involved in training teaching assistants, initiatives which enrich the advocating for more filmed courses, and overall student experience. processing student feedback on teaching quality and content.

PARTIES, SPORTS AND MORE T In addition to providing academic support, hanks to Technion’s diligent Students TSA ensures that Technion students have Association, students not only enjoy a rich access to a wide array of extracurricular selection of extracurricular activities and activities and cultural events throughout cultural events; they also benefit from a the year. The 4,000 tickets to each of their support network that helps them cope four annual mega parties usually sell out with the academic challenges. Under the fast, and the two-day Student Festival held leadership of Students Association Chair every May attracts 18,000 people a day, Amir David Nissan-Cohen, a Computer making it the largest of its kind in Israel. Science Master’s student, and Graduate Moreover, on Wednesdays from 12:30 to Students Chair Asaf Hershkovitz, a PhD 14:30 there are no classes on campus and student in Materials Engineering, the or- during that time the Students Association ganization is busier than ever. hosts a different event every week, such as a concert or crafts fair. “But every day there One of the Students Association proj- is something going on,” reveals Nissan- ects that gained steam this year involves Cohen, adding that TSA runs 36 different graduate students helping undergrads competitive sports teams, some of which with their coursework. The Students As- are quite successful. Over 3,000 students sociation also organizes approximately take part in sports. 40 workshops each semester for stu- dents who feel that they are behind Nissan-Cohen also stresses the impor- in their course material, and 40 more tance of volunteering and community PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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This year’s Technion Race, part of the 5th Technion Challenge that included a variety of sports competitions

outreach. Every two weeks, a busload of this large cohort has very different needs The secret of students participates in a voluntary activity and priorities from undergrads. “They are genius is to such as helping in local hospitals, painting generally at a later stage in life; many are carry the spirit apartments for elderly people or cleaning married and have children; and they have of the child up litter from the beach. Another project different cultural interests than younger into old age, involves the collection of old computers students,” points out Asaf Hershkovitz. which means never and other equipment, which students Many live in the Graduate Student Village, losing your overhaul and then donate to NGO’s or which Hershkovitz describes as “one of enthusiasm. disadvantaged students. the nicest neighborhoods in all of Israel.” - Aldous Huxley The Students Association has improved Other projects that the Association initiated the amenities at the Village, adding facili- this year include opening a Gymboree for ties such as a laundry room and outdoor children and building a music room where exercise machines. students can practice and record. More- over, it organized the first Technion-wide Special programs organized for gradu- hackathon, in collaboration with the private ate students include cooking workshops, sector. Over 650 students participated in plays and concerts, and subsidized meals the 30-hour hackathon – the biggest held for graduate students at campus eateries. in Israel. There are activities for their children, such as the annual kid’s carnival at the end of 1/3 GRAD STUDENTS the summer vacation. One out of every three Technion students is working towards an MSc or PhD, and The Israeli Olympic Sports Research Center was launched this year, headed by Prof. Alon Wolf, to leverage Technion ingenuity for the benefit of the Israeli Olympic team.TECHNION SPIRIT

Hodaya Oliel (center), who has cerebral palsy and recently graduated from Technion’s Rappaport School of Medicine, was honored with lighting one of the 12 torches at this year’s official Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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TECHNION SPIRIT Dr. Kangpeng Wang, postdoc in Prof. Ido Kaminer’s lab

Students from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine who are members of `Ruach Tova,’ Israel’s first student-run community health center offering services to those in need, free-of-charge. The center is headed by Prof. Ruti Margalit (Back row, 3rd from left). INNOVATION, INVESTMENT, IMPACT TIKUN oLAM* T3 has been instrumental in birthing many outstanding success stories which directly contributed to making the world a better place.

STRATEGIC GOAL: ADVANCING SCIENCE AND HUMANKIND

T3 the Technion Technol- sponsored research, licensing and the ogy Transfer Unit – is where great establishment of start-up companies ideas from campus labs and faculty based on Technion technologies. members are protected, enhanced, One reflection of the innovative accelerated and translated into prod- strength of Israel’s top institute of ucts through dynamic processes of technology is seen in the 100 affiliated commercialization. T3 is part of the companies which were established Technion Research and Development through the intellectual property of the Foundation Ltd. (TRDF). Technion ecosystem.

T3’s new Managing Director, Rona The Technion has tools to support and Samler, sees T3’s role as both active invest in these companies, from pre- and proactive: “Our ability to stream- seed through follow-up investments in line the commercialization process, designated funds, including the DRIVE making Technion innovation accessible accelerator, AMIT ‘s biomedical venture in a dynamic and changing environ- and The Technion Investment Opportu- ment, is fundamental,” she says, add- nity Fund. ing that, “The holistic approach means we are active and proactive partners in Here are some examples of how the promoting applications of high-quality commercialization of Technion discov- science. This is in relation to both eries has had a far-reaching impact, Technion faculty and to industry.” actively contributing to ‘Tikun Olam’: * “healing the world” - a central value in T3’s business activities include col- Judaism that espouses benefiting humanity laboration with industry, facilitating PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Prof. Havazelet Bianco-Peled (second from right) with the Sealantis team

Sealantis Based on Technion technology, Sealantis develops medical adhesives which mimic the mechanism of algae adhering to rocks in water and which have much lower risks of infection or allergy. The company was sold in January 2019 for US$25 million to Advanced Medical Solutions Group from England. Sealantis was established under the aus- pices of the Alfred Mann Institute at Technion The Seal-V vascular adhesive device invented by Sealantis (AMIT), under the leadership of Prof. Havaze- let Bianco-Peled, a world renowned expert in biomedical polymers, from the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering. TIKUN oLAM

Technion-born Mazor Robotics sells for a record $1.6B

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Prof. Moshe Shoham

Mazor Robotics In the largest ever ‘exit’ of an Israeli biotech company, Mazor Robotics – a pioneering de- veloper of robotic systems for spine and brain surgery, founded at Technion – was bought in September 2018 by Irish-American medical device company Medtronic for $1.64 billion. Mazor’s innovative products were originally developed by Prof. Moshe Shoham of the Fac- ulty of Mechanical Engineering. Mazor started out in the Technion Entrepreneurial Incubator Company (TEIC). Novocure In 2000, Prof. Yoram Palti of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine sought to lever- age his expertise in bio- BreezoMeter physics to develop a new BreezoMeter was founded way to treat cancer that in 2012 by Technion alumni would destroy tumor cells Ran Korber, Ziv Lautman while sparing healthy tis- and Emil Fisher. Environ- sue. His research led to Corindus mental engineers aware the founding of Novocure, Corindus Vascular Ro- of the connection between which has grown into an botics, Inc. is a global health and the environ- international oncology technology leader in ment, they were interested company with more than robotic-assisted vascular in knowing the quality of 495 employees and opera- interventions. Prof. Rafi the air we breathe in real tions in the U.S., Europe Beyar, Former Director

TIKUN oLAM time. The result is the and Asia. The company’s of Rambam Healthcare most accurate air quality development center re- Campus and former Dean application programming mains in Haifa. of the Rappaport Faculty interface (API) in the world. of Medicine, co-founded the company. Corindus’ next-generation CorPath GRX System is advancing the field of robotic interven- tional cardiology, offering Itamar Medical improvements in radiation Itamar Medical Ltd. is a protection for physicians publicly traded company and the potential to reduce that develops non-invasive radiation exposure for staff medical devices for moni- and patients. toring sleep and diagnosing sleep disorders based on its proprietary PAT™ tech- nology. This technology was developed in the labora- tory of Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie, who is also one of the company’s founders. Itamar Medical is based in Caesarea and markets the WatchPAT (pictured above) and En- doPAT devices worldwide. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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An innovative drone for the construction industry by tech start-up CivDrone, on display at the Technion France annual gala event in Paris

who are both new are based on Technion Dr. Shuli Shwartz, immigrants (from technologies. The others DRIVE’s Managing Direc- France and Bra- are by alumni. Compa- tor, is herself an experi- Technion DRIVE – an zil), raised $1.5 nies that are accepted to enced entrepreneur who accelerator for entre- million to fund further the program receive up to founded three ventures preneurs who are part of development of their $100,000, business men- and recently co-managed the Technion community product: rapid identifica- torship, space in DRIVE’s Runway, a start-up and whose start-ups are tion of antibiotic resis- offices on campus and incubator program for in the pre-seed or seed tance. The technology is access to Technion labs postdocs at the Jacobs stages – is bearing fruit based on research that and resources. The nine- Technion-Cornell Insti- after only 2.5 years. was carried out in Prof. month program provides tute in New York (see Shulamit Levenberg’s lab. participating entrepre- page 40). She is person- DRIVE start-ups cover BrainVu detects emotions neurs with assistance in ally involved with each of a large range of fields. on faces non-invasively fundraising and finding the accelerator’s start- One company, VineSight, and remotely using potential clients, as well ups, customizing the developed an algorithm Technion technology. Last as introducing them to a mentorship training of that identifies fake news year, it was acquired by huge network of men- the first-time entrepre- and is now gaining trac- Mantis Vision. tors and investors, many neurs and helping with tion. Another start-up, of whom are Technion pitching and fund raising, NanoSynex, founded by Out of the 26 companies alumni themselves. team building, product two young Technion alumni in DRIVE’s portfolio, four development and more. STRATEGIC GOAL: GLOBALIZATION

Technion Technion is a thriving nexus International (TI) in the global scientific and 2018-2019: technological ecosystem. 31 freshmen enrolled in BSc programs in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering A GLOBAL NETWORK taught in English degree programs – in A core team of Technion faculty mem- Program (TeAMS) prepares students 2 Chemical Engineering bers is leading the implementation of for a professional medical career in the and in Biotechnology the university’s globalization strategy. U.S., while exposing them to cutting-edge and Food Engineering – The goal is to expand Technion pres- medical research in Israel. are taught in English ence at major research centers, build- and are a part of the ing heterogenic groups of researchers Graduate students preparation for the Guangdong-Technion from different countries, establishing Among Technion’s 2,573 MSc students, programs joint research groups among the three 185 are considered international stu- Technion global campuses, promoting dents. Of the 1,155 PhD students study- research in fields of global significance, ing at Technion, 96 are international. 169 students encouraging faculty mobility and develop- In addition, Technion sends graduate currently enrolled in ing student exchange programs that will students to present their work at inter- 4 English-language degree programs inspire research collaborations. national conferences.

Technion International (TI), in its tenth Postdoctoral fellows 661 international year, serves as the home of the interna- There are currently 231 international students hosted at tional student community at Technion. postdoctoral fellows at Technion. In ad- Technion. Among them 62 dition, Technion sends six students each study-abroad students, and 165 visiting Undergraduate year to participate in the joint MIT-Tech- research students Technion International manages two nion Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. full degree programs – Civil Engineer- The Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholars ing and Mechanical Engineering – as Program attracts the finest postdoctoral 191 students in TI well as summer programs and student- scholars from leading universities in the summer programs exchange programs. U.S. to Technion. Over 500 Technion American Medical School International competitions students from China Technion’s Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Each year Technion sends teams of and India have taken Faculty of Medicine American Medical undergraduate students to participate part in special summer programs PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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66 Technion students spent a semester at a partner university in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Asia

in international competitions, such as MOOCs 21 Technion students in the Formula Student Challenge, Association This initiative serves to establish a global IAESTE summer for Unmanned Vehicle Systems Inter- online presence and as a tool to encour- internship program, national (AUVSI), and the International age international collaboration. The total where students spend Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design enrollment in Technion MOOCs to date a summer abroad Competition. is 81,400. working in their field

Research collaboration 15 Erasmus+ This year, Technion became the sixth cooperation member of the prestigious EuroTech Uni- projects submitted versities Alliance, a network of top-tier to strengthen research-based universities known for cooperation with their scientific excellence and vibrant in- European universities novation ecosystems. Close collaboration with the other members of the alliance, 29 agreements an elite group of European universities, were maintained with will help ensure that Technion remains at foreign medical the forefront of global scientific research. schools

Technion is part of the European CESAER 213 academic consortium, and participates in joint pro- collaboration grams such as EIT - European Institute agreements upheld of Innovation & Technology. with universities in 41 countries. THE EDGE IN ASIA Technion labs at GTIIT provide cutting-edge equipment and an TECHNION environment designed for the cultivation of first-class talent GUANGDONG

At Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute and Biotechnology Engineering. It has In 2017, of Technology (GTIIT) in Shantou, China, 22 first-rate faculty members from all Technion plans are already underway to expand over the world and 480 students, 28% of inaugurated two the campus, programs and student body. whom are women. Admissions require- new campuses Since the current site, known as North ments are stringent and comparable to outside of Campus, is being fully utilized, a new those of Technion’s International School. Israel – South Campus is being built across the Applicants must have top grades in their Guangdong road. South Campus will be four times as high-school matriculation exams; must Technion-Israel large as North Campus and, altogether, be proficient in English; and are required Institute of GTIIT is expected to enroll 2,600 students to pass an interview. Technology by 2026. The first stage of this four-year in China and project will be ready by July 2020, and will the Jacobs enable GTIIT to open additional academic “ Technion-Cornell tracks, in addition to a large library, more Institute in the GTIIT is a university dorms and other advanced facilities. United States. full of possibilities. Two years later, Even though it is GTIIT currently offers BSc degrees in both campuses difficult, we love this three tracks: Materials Science and are thriving. university and we love Engineering, Chemical Engineering, to study here.” - Yang Yifan, GTIIT PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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“ GTIIT is proud of the fact that 100% of its we can learn research funding requests have been ac- different cepted. Indeed, its scientists have already cultures from received prestigious research grants from professors competitive research foundations. More- from different YANG YIFAN, GTIIT over, Guangdong’s Provincial Government countries, “GTIIT is a university full of possibilities. Even recently approved GTIIT as one of the prov- and discuss though it is difficult, we love this university and ince’s four leading universities. As a result different we love to study here. We are rewarded for our of this status, GTIIT was able to apply for topics with hard work. Our English has improved a lot, our $10 million grants for teaching and re- professors, vision has been expanded, and we are starting to think more critically to explore new answers. search in each of four disciplines. GTIIT not limited to was also granted the right to participate our studies.” At GTIIT, we have many opportunities to develop in the founding of key semi-industrial labs -Yang Yifan our interests, and campus life is diverse and in Guangdong Province. Twenty research interesting. We students can join or start a proposals were submitted, totaling $80 student group according to our own interests. Last year, eight student groups were started, million in grants. including music, culture and athletics groups. Sometimes we also invite professors to participate in student activities, like watching movies together and sharing books; we can learn different cultures from professors from different countries, and discuss different topics with professors, not limited to our studies.

I think GTIIT is like a blank canvas, waiting for us to paint a picture on it. We have really good brushes and art teachers, which means high- end equipment and the best professors.”

Yang is a second-year student of Chemical Engineering at GTIIT. He is originally from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.

Faculty and students at GTIIT North Campus INNOVATION RUNWAY NYC

The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion- Cornell Institute, which was created in 2013 within Cornell Tech as a partnership between Cornell University and Technion, has plans to expand. Located within the new, modern Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City, the The Tata Innovation Center is a mixer of academia, start-ups and established companies. Jacobs Institute currently offers two A genuine crucible for innovation. Technion-Cornell dual Masters degrees, in Connective Media and Health Tech. Students receive degrees from both Cor- faculty members, including its director, nell and Technion. Ron Brachman, who is a professor of Computer Science at Cornell Univer- This past academic year, a total of sity. Three of the seven are Technion- 90 students were enrolled in the two appointed faculty. Master’s programs, of which about 75% were in Connective Media and 25% in The Jacobs Institute is also home to the Health Tech. Demand for the current Runway Startup Postdoc Program – part Master’s programs is growing, and the business school, part research institution number of applications continues to and part start-up incubator. Postdocs ar- rise each year. A new Urban Tech hub/ rive with ideas for unproven products and degree is expected to be launched in the markets that require time and specialized fall of 2021 and is likely to attract large guidance to develop. The program lasts interest. The Institute now has seven 12–24 months and incorporates academic PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Cornell Tech campus framed by the Queensboro Bridge

RENEE ZACHAROWICZ, HEALTH TECH, THE JACOBS INSTITUTE “This program helped me crystallize my and business mentorship. So far, it has passions and interests by providing me with an launched 24 companies. academically rigorous education and means to “ apply classroom techniques to problem sets in the wild. The Jacobs Institute provides the This past year was pivotal in strengthening framework to discover and then dive deeply into the ties between the New York and Haifa cam- a subject area of interest while maintaining an puses. Prof. Ariel Orda is Jacobs Program industry-driven focus. Consequently, the Health Head at Technion. Tech program boasts a multifaceted course load, augmenting coursework in machine learning, biostatistics, and neuroscience with Technion students intern at the Cornell courses in business, entrepreneurship and I am most grateful Tech campus. The Jacobs Institute is for- health tech engineering. malizing a Technion Visitors Program to for all of my support short-term visits, and the Runway experiences at the Above all, this Master’s program served as a unique and life-changing experience. ITrek, the program is working to strengthen ties with Jacobs Technion- Cornell Institue Jacobs annual trip to Israel, was a microcosm Technion DRIVE entrepreneurs. of the educational experience by saturating as I worked, its two-week winter trip with educational and The Ruch Faculty Exchange Program sup- built and engaged recreational experiences. . I am most grateful ports faculty and student collaboration with a group of for the friendships I have made on that trip and through all of my experiences at the Jacobs between Cornell Tech and Technion. Over international Technion-Cornell Institute as I worked, built and students with 50 Cornell Tech students took part in the engaged with a group of international students 2019 iTrek trip to Israel, half of whom were extraordinarily with extraordinarily diverse backgrounds.” Jacobs students. diverse backgrounds.” Renee, 24, is a Health Tech 2019 MSc alumna - Renee Zacharowicz, who graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva Jacobs Institute University’s honors program. She is originally from Far Rockaway, New York. GIVING 2018 - Guardians 2019 Technion Guardians have made the highest level of commitment to the Institute

HELEN DILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION CA, USA

DR. EUGENE KESSLER AND FAMILY CA, USA

DR. ALFRED MUNZER AND MR. JOEL WIND MD, USA

AVI SHAKED AND DR. BABS WALDMAN IL, USA

KENNETH SKODNEK MD NY, USA

ROBERT, YAN AND SAMANTHA STEWART MI, USA

A complete list of giving is available at: presidentsreport.technion.ac.il PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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GIFTS

Zvi Ackerstein Memorial Carson Trust Fund for JTCI Kleinkramer Family Apartment Prize Fund Runway Program in the Undergraduate Student Adama Agricultural Solutions Murray and Joseph Dalfen Fund Village in Memory of Saul Gift for Archimedes Program for New Directions in Kleinkramer Maria Ascoli Fund for Applied Membrane Research Lasky Foundation Fund for Orthopaedic Research Davison Fund for the First Steps AUVSI Competition Azrieli Foundation Gift to Program in the Faculty of Sam Lernik Trust Gift Upgrade Computer Farm Civil and Environmental Li Ka Shing Foundation Support in the Faculty of Architecture Engineering of Research by Prof. Eliezer and Town Planning Andre Deloro Building for Shalev Jacob Bar and Dan Mazar Bioscience, Medicine Trudy and Norman Louis Fund Laboratory in RBNI and Engineering for Applied Security Science Marguerite Barazani Greenberg Helen Diller Quantum Center and Technology Research Gift for Entrance Floor in Fischer Center for Reservists in the Center for Security Stanley Shalom Zielony and Students with Learning Science and Technology Student Union Building Disabilities Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Beracha Foundation Fund for Joseph Florian Memorial Fund Foundation Apartment in the the First Steps Program Alex Gellman and Robyn Moncrief Undergraduate Student Village Beracha Foundation Gift to Fund for the Technion Sonia T. Marschak Arts Biomedical Engineering Integrated Cancer Center Enrichment Program Laboratory Grand/Holdstein Drone Mauerberger Foundation Fund Beracha Foundation Gift for Technology Competition Research Award for Student Dormitory Fund for the Amos Horev Transformative Technologies Beracha Foundation Gift for Sports Arena for Africa Amos Horev Sports Arena Yeshaya Horowitz Gift Dan Maydan Fund for Research Beracha Foundation Faculty of Technion Research Fund Innovation in the Micro-Nano Recruitment Fund Yeshaya Horowitz Gift to Fabrication Unit Samuel H. Born Fund for Technion Fund for Etia Meilichson Research Fund Biomedical Research Advancement of Knowledge in Memory of Prof. Itzhak Boxenbaum-Netta Gift for Isler Gift for Accessibility Kidron Archimedes Program Elevator in the Faculty of Meyer Fund for Electron Dita and Yehuda Bronicki Gift Aerospace Engineering Microscopic Imaging System for Hardware Initiatives Joint Distribution Committee Gift Ran Naor Road Safety in Bronica Center for Druze High-School Research Center Bnei Moshe Carasso Ltd. Gift for Students Nikoh Foundation Grant for Computerization of Audio- Dr. Eugene Kessler and Family Lymphoma Research under Visual Library Services in the Fund for the Pre-University Prof. Yuval Shaked Moise and Palomba Carasso Center Center for Self-Study INDIVIDUAL AND FOUNDATION GIVING

GIFTS FELLOWSHIPS

Pa’amei Tikva (Israel 2004) Ltd. Gift from the Estate of Natalie Beck-Tech Jerusalem Gift for Prof. Mordechai Shaffer for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship Fund Choder's Research Fellowship in the Lokey Chuck and Madeleine Bellock Prize Fund from the Estate of Center and RBNI Doctoral Fellowship Fund Eliyahu Penn Shostakovsky and Shavit Mozelle and Joel Berkowitz Ravitz Foundation Fund Prize Funds Honorary Graduate for Ethiopian Student Edna and Jonathan Sohnis Fund Fellowship Fund Empowerment Program Hank Sussheim Memorial Brodie Family Doctoral Joel S. & Jeri J. Rothman Research Fund Fellowship Fund Apartment in the Stanley Shalom Josh Watson Gift for FIRST Israel Clore Israel Foundation Zielony Graduate Student Stephen and Helene Weicholz Fellowship Fund Village Fund for Recruitment and Joyce Croft Doctoral Fellowship Gift from the Estate of Michael Retention of Professional Staff for Technion International Rothschild to the D. Dan and at the Beatrice Weston Unit for Ruth and Arrigo Finzi Betty Kahn Mechanical the Advancement of Students Fellowship Fund Engineering Building Naomi Wertheimer Human Yitzhak Fryd Fellowship Fund Gift from the Estate of Mae Bionic Research Lab Ze’ev Gasko Fellowship Fund K. Rubin Wolfson Foundation and Wolfson Fund in memory of Zvi Goldberg Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund Family Charitable Trust and Orna Goldberg-Copilov for Strategic Innovation Gift Support for the Purchase Dr. Dov Goldstein Memorial for Scalable Spin-Based of Equipment for Research Graduate Fellowship Fund Quantum Computing and into Attosecond Science and Louis Family Doctoral Sensing High Field Physics Fellowship Fund Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund Zohar Zisapel Gift for Amos Professor Tobin J. Marks for Strategic Innovation Gift Horev Sports Arena Endowed Fellowship Fund for Research of Protein Yehuda Zisapel Gift for Amos Nash Family Foundation Turnover in Sporadic Horev Sports Arena Fellowship Fund Alzheimer's Disease Neurons Sam Peltzman Graduate Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund Fellowship Fund for Strategic Innovation Gift Jack and Harriet Rosenfeld for Molecular Profiling by Foundation Graduate Morphological Phenotyping Fellowship Fund Sharon and Joel Schwartz Dr. Gideon and Marla Stein Family Classroom Fellowship Fund Apartment in Memory of Barbara Myron and Linda Teitelbaum Seiden in the Morton and Doctoral Fellowship Fund Beverley Rechler Family Wjuniski Fellowship Fund for the Foundation Dormitory MD/PhD Medical Scientist Program Yunis Family Fellowship Fund PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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SCHOLARSHIPS

Martha and Mordechai Brodai Ran Naor Scholarships in Road BST Construction Gift for Scholarship Fund for Safety Research Scholarships for Outstanding Promotion of Palliative Care Zipora and Yitzhak Nissenbaum Minority Students Moshe Burstein Scholarship Scholarship Fund Gift to Chemistry Course for Fund Ing. Jacob Pinchuk Memorial High-School Students Gaby Maurice Cohen Memorial Scholarship Fund donated by Dexel Ltd. Scholarships Joseph Puritz Memorial EDC Gift for Amos Horev Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Scholarship Fund Sports Arena Scholarship Fund Rashi Foundation Scholarship Elbit Gift to Hybrid Imaging David Foundation Scholarship Fund in Education in Science Laboratory Fund for Ethiopian Students and Technology Elbit - Elron Research Fund Shirley and Isadore Feinberg Rashi Foundation Guastella EMC Gift for Scholarships in Scholarship Scholarship Fund Computer Science and Moshe Fradis Foundation Ben-Ami and Tamar Rosenfeld Electrical Engineering Memorial Scholarship Fund Scholarships Intel Israel Ltd. Graduate Sam Gelfer Memorial Reuven Shachtel Memiorial Student Prizes Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund from Intel Israel Gift for Technion Arie Grosburg Memorial the Estate of Azela Shachtel Research Grant Scholarship Fund Moshe Shnabel Scholarship Excellence Scholarships in Robert Guttman Memorial Fund Optical Engineering donated Scholarship Fund Dr. Gideon and Marla Stein by KLA-Tencor Abraham Hacohen, Aharon Ozeri Scholarship Fund KLA-Tencor Gift to Research and Eitan Shpigel Memorial Eugene and Magda Sternheim and Fellowships Scholarship Fund Memorial Scholarship Fund Microsoft Israel Gift to Upgrade Orly Hetzroni Scholarship Fund Yossi Vardi Scholarship Fund SSD Laboratory in Computer Helena Horman Scholarship for Ultra-Orthodox Students Science Fund Sholim Vizner Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund donated by Ori Kashti Memorial Scholarship Yaron Wynn Memorial Scholarship Rafael Advanced Defense Fund donated by Essence and Fellowship Fund Systems Retirees Security Yehuda and Diana Yehudai Tadiran Gift to Communication Lab Leah Katz and Abraham Artzi Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Carmela and Yosef Machlus Scholarship Fund Lipa and Yehudit Meshorer Excellence Scholarship Fund Guardians Miriam B. and Louis J. Benjamin, FL, USA Yoda Leon and Luna Benoziyo, Lausanne, Switzerland Technion Guardians have made the Dr Irving and Jeanette Benveniste, CA, USA highest level of commitment Beracha Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel Evelyn Berger, PA, USA to the Institute Ilene and Steve Berger, PA, USA A Bar-Nir Bergreen Family, PA, USA Ruth Berkowitz, Switzerland Menachem and Carmela Abraham, MA, USA Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Family, IL, USA Adelis Foundation, France Russell Berrie Foundation, NJ, USA Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Jerry and Evelyn Bishop, NY, USA Foundation, MA, USA Scott M. Black, MA, USA Catherine and Frederick R. Adler, NY & FL, USA Dahlia and Ilan Blech, CA, USA Nathan Adler Stier, Argentina Neri and Bernard Bloomfield, Montreal, Canada Alon Family Foundation, CA, USA Harold and Penny B. Blumenstein, MI, USA Paul and Sherry Altura, CA, USA Richard C. and Carol Blumenstein, MI, USA Maurice Amado Foundation, CA, USA Simon and Tekla Bond, NY, USA Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. Octav Botnar, Switzerland Annenberg Foundation, PA, USA Samuel and Millicent Broadwin, FL, USA Carl and Iris Barrel Apfel, FL, USA Frances Brody, CA, USA Applied Materials Foundation, CA, USA Dita and Yehuda Bronicki, Yavne, Israel Eng. Paul S. Arieli (Goldschmidt) and Dr May Arieli, Israel Jack Buncher Foundation, PA, USA Arison Foundation, FL, USA / Tel Aviv, Israel Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bundesministerium für Bildung Lester Aronberg Foundation, IL, USA und Forschung, Bonn / Berlin, Germany Norman and Helen Asher, IL, USA Paul and Rodica Burg, CA, USA Avraham and Patricia Ashkenazi, VA, USA Marshall and Marilyn Butler, NY, USA Victor and Efpichia Asser, Athens, Greece Automatic Data Processing, Inc., NJ, USA C Florette and Henri Avram, Paris, France Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation, Itice Avram, Paris, France Caesarea, Israel David and Stephanie Azrieli, Montreal, Canada Milton H. Callner Foundation, Joan C. Miller and Family, IL, USA Arie Carasso, Israel B Macabi and Matty Carasso, Herzliya, Israel Morton and Selma Bank, FL, USA Moshe Carasso and Sons Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel Bank Hapoalim, Israel Yoel and Stella Carasso, Ramat Gan, Israel Ovadia Barazani’s Foundation, Haifa, Paris, London Fausta Carli, Gilberto Finzi, Italy Samuel Barliant Family, IL, USA Ruth S. Carne, FL, USA Daron and Ron Barness Family, AZ, USA Caster Family, PA, USA Matilda and Gabriel Barnett, CA, USA Yoram and Zahava Cedar and their Trustees, CA, USA Dr. Euval and Olga Barrekette, NY, USA Stanley and Pamela Chais, CA, USA Syd Barrel, FL, USA Leona and Marcy Chanin, NY, USA Claire S. Behar, CA, USA Paul and Carol Chanin, FL, USA Bellock Family - Florence and Jack, FL, USA Dr. Lillian Chutick, NY, USA Madeleine Morrison and Chuck, CO, USA, Dr. Rebecca Chutick, NY, USA Emily and Steven, MI, USA Said Cohen Foundation, CA, USA Hilda and Manasche Ben Shlomo Foundation, Liechtenstein Jacob and Rosaline Cohn, IL, USA PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

47 Marcia Cohn, Il, USA F Jerome J. Cole, IL, USA Joan and Reginald Coleman Cohen, Brighton, England Hortense and Lawrence Fairberg, CT, USA Alex and Tina Coler, CA, USA Israel and Elizabeth F. Feldman, MD, USA Sydney and Florence Cooper, Toronto, Canada Ben and Fanny Fieldman, CA, USA Elizabeth and Sidney Corob, London, England Helgard and Irwin S. Field, CA, USA Jeffrey Cosiol, NJ, USA & Costa Rica Lotte Fields, NY, USA Crown Family, IL, USA Sylvia and David I. A. 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Friedman, NY, USA Max and Lottie Dresher, IL, USA Dr. Orrie and Laurel Friedman, MA, USA Jerome and Sylvia Drexler, CA, USA Leonard Friedman, CA, USA Eleanor and Mel Dubin, NY, USA Linda and Michael Frieze, MA, USA Estate of Eugenie Fromer, NY, USA E Boruch and Olga Frusztajer, MA, USA Rosalind Fuerst, NY, USA Louis Edelstein Family, NJ, USA Alvin and Helene Eicoff Charitable Foundation, IL, USA G Eldee Foundation, Montreal, Canada George Elbaum and Mimi Jensen, CA, USA Uzia and Ella Galil, Israel Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., Haifa, Israel Maurice G. and Hynda Gamze, IL, USA Carla and Dr Hugo Elsbach-Hertzdahl Estate, Israel Paul and Marilyn Geleris, CA, USA Col. J.R. and Anna Tulin Elyachar, NY, USA Mark I. Gelfand, MA, USA The Emerson Family, CA, USA Gemunder Family Foundation Joel F. Gemunder, FL, USA Dr. Joseph N. and Beatrice B. Epel, MI, USA German-Israel Foundation for Science and Development, Carol B. Epstein, MD, USA Jerusalem, Israel; München, Germany E. 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Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick, IL, USA Dr. Harry and Tamara Handelsman, MD, USA Dorothy Kobritz and Anthony Rios, FL, USA Dr. Harold L. and Margaret Harris, IL, USA Frances and Leo Kogan, CA, USA Homer and Gloria Harvey, CA, USA Jay M. Kogan Foundation, MI, USA Morven and Michael Heller, London, England Melville J. Kolliner, CA, USA Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, NY, USA Sidney and Vivian Konigsberg, CA, USA Paula Herschberg, NY, USA Anna and Alexander Konoff, NY, USA Hewlett-Packard, CA, USA Jon-David Koppel, FL, USA Beverly And Charles Hirsch, IL and FL, USA Koret Foundation, CA, USA Jon and Melissa Hirschtick, MA, USA Yaacov and Batya Kotlicki, Tel Aviv, Israel Fred and Sandra Hittman, MD, USA Jacob L. Kram, NJ, USA Louis and Marjorie Stoll Holtz, FL, USA Margaret Strauss Kramer, FL, USA Eddie and Sala Hudes, CA, USA PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

49 Theodore H. and Joan Krengel, IL, USA Miriam Malach, NY, USA Helen G. Kruger, FL, USA Alexandre Mallat, Paris, France George and Hannah Krumholz, FL, USA Claude and Alfred E. Mann, CA, USA Sybil and Reuben Kunin, Toronto, Canada Hal and Inge Marcus, WA, USA Saul and Gitta Kurlat, MA, USA William and Cynthia Marcus, MA, USA The Kurzbauer Family, DC, USA and Amsterdam, Netherlands Jennie and Dorothy Markowitz Trust, IL, USA Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, Japan Sonia Marschak, IL, USA Mauerberger Foundation Fund, Cape Town, South Africa L Dalia and Dan Maydan, CA, USA Medvedi, Shwartzman and Gensler Families, Israel Land Niedersachsen, Ministerium für Wissenschaft Rafi (Raphael) Mehoudar, Tel Aviv, Israel und Kultur, Hannover, Germany Marjorie Meltzer, NY, USA Benny and Patrisia Landa, Israel Eta Meilichson, Herzliya, Israel Noemi and Jacques Landau, NY, USA Frank and Sharon Meyer, CA, USA Stephen A. Laser, IL, USA Andre and Bella Meyer Foundation, NY, USA Lois and Leonard Laser, IL, USA Philippe Meyer, Paris, France Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder, NY, USA Vincent Meyer, London, UK Scott J. and Susan S. Leemaster, MI, USA Joseph Meyerhoff Fund, MD, USA Rose Lefkowitz, Toronto, Canada Maxwell E. and Frieda Miller, NJ, USA Legacy Heritage Fund Limited, NY, USA Amos and Anna Milo, FL, USA Corina Legrain, Barcelone, Spain Minerva-Stiftung, München, Germany Henry J. Leir, CT, USA Marianne Minkoff Lerner, FL, USA William M. and Gloria Lester, FL, USA Jessie Kaplan Mintz, CO, USA Leumi, Israel Raphael and Miriam Mishan, NJ, USA Dr Seymour Levine, NJ, USA Dr. Hyman and Myrna Mitchner, CA, USA Velva G. and H. Fred Levine, TX, USA Selma T. Mitrani, PA, USA Harry H. and Gene G. Lewin, CA, USA Mitrani Family Foundation, NY, USA Meyer (Max) Lewin Estate, WV, USA Maxine and Monte Monaster Foundation, IL, USA Yale S. Lewine and Ella Miller Lewine, CA, USA Monterey Design Systems, Inc. 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Segal, Washington DC, USA Sacta-Rashi Enterprises, Geneva, Switzerland Vilma and Ladislas Segoe, OH, USA Shirley and Manny Ravet, CA, USA Joan and Arnold Seidel, CA, USA The Ravitz Foundation founded by Edward Ravitz, MI, USA Barbara and Norman Seiden, NJ, USA Maria and Joseph Rebhun, CA, USA Les and Eileen Seskin, FL and PA, USA Morton and Beverly Rechler Family Foundation, Inc., NY, USA Avi Shaked and Dr. Babs Waldman, IL, USA Rudolph Reese, FL, USA Prof. Rachel and Uriel Shalon, Haifa, Israel Clara Reiss, NY, USA William and Sophia Shamban, CA, USA Barbara and Frank Resnek, MA, USA Andy and Kathy Shapiro, NJ, USA Hilda A. and Hershel M. Rich, TX, USA Eugene and Marlene Shapiro, AZ, USA Milton Richter and Daniel I. Friss, FL / NY, USA Paul and Deane Shatz, Washington, D.C., USA Eugene N. Riesman, Montreal, Canada Sholom and Theda Shefferman, MD, USA Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation, CA, USA Max and Amparo Shein, Mexico City, Mexico Dorothy Kobritz and Anthony Rios, FL, USA Irving and Sue Shepard, MS, USA Edward G. and Paula Robison, FL, USA David Shepherd, London, England Abraham and Sonia Rochlin Foundation, NV, USA Jane F. and D. Larry Sherman, MI, USA Morris and Renée Rochlin, MI, USA Leonard and Diane Sherman, IL, USA Helen and Louis B. Rogow, CT, US Honey and Barry Sherman, Toronto, Canada Ilsa Rooz Trust, IL, USA Nate H. Sherman Foundation, IL, USA Barrie Rose, Toronto, Canada Claire and Norton Sherman, MA, USA David Rose, NY, USA Dr. Merry Sherman and Dr Mark Saifer, CA, USA Frederick P. Rose, Daniel Rose, Elihu Rose, NY, USA Robert (“Dr. Bob”) and Mao Shillman, MA, USA Betty and Raymond Rosen, CA, USA PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Dr. S. Jerome and Judith D. Tamkin, CA, USA Z Bernice and Joseph Tanenbaum, NY, USA Kal and Joyce Zeff, CO, USA Jordan and Irene Tark, IL, USA Ruth and Allen Ziegler, CA, USA Henry and Marilyn Taub and Family, NJ, USA Shalom Zielony, NY, USA Joseph and Arlene Taub, NJ, USA Edith and Robert L. Zinn, TX, USA Ann and Andrew H. Tisch, NY, USA Yehuda and Nava Zisapel, Israel Dr. Sam B. and Eve Topf, FL, USA Zohar Zisapel, Israel Benjamin and Sarah Torchinsky, Canada / Cayman Islands Isaiah and Harriet Zucker, NY, USA Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Zuckerman Institute, NY, USA HONORARY DEGREES AND AWARDS

B Prof. Srulek Cederbaum, 2012 Dr. Moshe Epstein, 2011 Justice Aharon Barak, 1998 Prof. Malcolm Chaikin, 1991 Prof. Paul Erdos, 1983 Technion Alfred J. Bär, 2013 Stanley Chais, 2008 Medal Zahava Bar-Nir, 2009 Prof. Herman Chernoff, 1984 F Prof. The Honourable Prof. Alexandre Joel Chorin, Yekutiel Federmann, 1989 Uzia Galil, 1997 Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO, 2003 Israel Feldman, 2003 Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev, 1996 2016 Winston S. Churchill, 1997 Harry F. Fischbach, 1971 Irwin Jacobs, 2013 Norman Belmonte, 2005 Dr. Lillian Chutick, 1997 Edith Fischer, 2005 Martin Kellner, 2005 David Ben Gurion, 1962 Dr. Joseph Ciechanover, 2017 Max M. Fisher, 1991 Justice Moshe Landau, 1996 Louis Benjamin, 1993 Prof. Jacob Willem Cohen, 1988 Dr. F. Julius Fohs, 1957 Peter Munk, 2013 Miriam Benjamin, 1991 Prof. Morris Cohen, 1979 Dr. William Fondiller, 1949 Samuel Neaman, 1997 Gen. (Res.) Avihu Ben-Nun, 2006 Prof. Karl Taylor Compton, 1954 R. J. Forbes, 1953 Bruce Rappaport, 1998 Evelyn Berger, 2006 Sydney C. Cooper, 1992 Alan Forman, 2011 Haim Rubin, 1997 Prof. E. D. Bergman, 1955 Elizabeth Corob, 1993 Prof. Stephen R. Forrest, 2018 Norman Seiden, 2001 Angelica Berrie, 2008 Sidney Corob, 1986 Dr. J. Franck, 1953 Leonard Sherman, 2005 Prof. Sir Michael V. Berry, 2006 Prof. Frank A. Cotton, 1983 Reinhard Frank, 2009 Ben Sosewitz, 2008 Dr. A. Biram, 1965 Edith Cresson, 2011 Thomas L. Friedman, 2008 Henry Taub, 1998 Ilan Biran, 2013 Lester Crown, 1996 Dr. Dov Frohman, 1995 Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, 2015 Prof. Joan S. Lyttle Birman, 1995 Prof. Gilbert F. Froment, 1984 Lewis Weston, 2008 Dr. Joel Birnbaum, 1999 D Mortimer B. Zuckerman, 2016 Prof. R. Byron Bird, 1993 P. F. Danel, 1952 G Scott Black, 2007 Dr. George B. Dantzig, 1973 Uzia Galil, 1977 HONORARY Simha Blass, 1958 Robert A. Davidow, 2007 Dr. Jacob M. Geist, 1987 DOCTORS* Arthur Blok, 1972 Dr. Duncan Davies, 1982 Mark Gelfand, 2011 Melvyn H. Bloom, 2013 Dr. Igor Dawid, 2009 Raya Gensler, 2002 A Michael R. Bloomberg, 2016 Prof. Arnold L. Demain, 2000 Emmanuel Gill, 1994 Sir Patrick Abercrombie, 1953 Bernard M. Bloomfield, 1978 Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz, 2014 Arthur Gilbert, 1999 Prof. Anatole de Abragam, 1986 Neri J. Bloomfield, 1990 Bern Dibner, 1976 Benno Gitter, 1991 Joseph Ackerman, 2009 Erik Blumenfeld, 1992 Prof. François Diederich, 2012 Prof. Israel Gohberg, 2008 Frederick R. Adler, 1998 Prof. David Bohm, 1992 Prof. David L. Donoho, 2017 Alexander Goldberg, 1975 Prof. Yakir Aharonov, 1992 Dr. Niels Bohr, 1958 Gen. Yaakov Dori, 1967 Edward R. Goldberg, 1990 Elie Alalouf, 2010 Dr. Zeev Bonen, 2004 Prof. Israel Dostrovsky, 1994 Dr. Emanuel Goldberg, 1957 Yoram Alster, 2013 Dr. Carl de Boor, 2002 Max Dresher, 1991 Gary Goldberg, 2012 Prof. Bernard Amadei, 2017 Prof. Haim Brezis, 1998 Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Joan Goldberg Arbuse, 1987 Walter H. Annenberg, 1991 Dr. Andrei Zary Broder, 2014 1994 Prof. Jose Goldemberg, 1991 Prof. Michael Aizenman, 2018 Frances Brody, 2002 Prof. Daniel Drucker, 1983 Prof. Richard Goldstein, 1994 Efraim R. Arazi, 1985 Lucien Bronicki, 2007 Prof. Jack D. Dunitz, 1990 Prof. Andrew and Aviva MK Moshe Arens, 1986 Yehudit Bronicki, 2007 Goldenberg, 2018 Ing. Paul S. Arieli (Goldschmidt), Prof. Bernard Budiansky, 1995 E Dr. Sydney Goldstein, 1969 2003 Marshall Butler, 2001 Prof. Beno Eckmann, 1983 Prof. Solomon W. Golomb, 2011 Ted Arison, 1998 Dr. Albert Einstein, 1953 Prof. Graham C. Goodwin, 2006 Prof. Alain Aspect, 2011 C Prof. Odile Eisenstein, 2017 Dr. Bernard Gordon, 2005 David J. Azrieli, 1985 Dr. Santiago Calatrava, 2004 Col. Jehiel R. Elyachar, 1979 Stephen Grand, 2010 Prof. Alberto P. Calderon, 1989 J. Steven Emerson, 2013 Doreen Brown Green, 2014 Arie Carasso, 1988 Dr. Joseph N. Epel, 1994 Joseph Gruss, 1989

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Joseph Gurwin, 2004 Michael Kennedy Leigh, 1983 Galia Maor, 2010 Prof. Lev Pitaevskii, 2010 Dr. Nahum Guzik, 2018 Moshe Keret, 2000 Harold Marcus, 2012 David Polak, 2009 Dr. Laurence R. Klein, 1982 Inge Marcus, 2018 Israel Pollack, 1993 H Philip E. Klein, 2004 Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus, 1998 Rachel Pollak, 2005 Prof. Peter Haasen, 1993 Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, 2010 Dr. Herman F. Mark, 1975 Manes Pratt, 1968 Homer Harvey, 1989 Prof. Sir Aaron Klug, F.R.S., Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Dan Propper, 1999 Dr. George H. Heilmeier, 1997 1989 2015 Michael Heller, 2010 Teddy Kollek, 1994 Dr. Dan Maydan, 2001 R President Chaim Herzog, 1987 Prof. Karl Ludwig Kompa, 1995 Raphael Mehoudar, 2014 Dr. I. I. Rabi, 1963 Sandy Hittman, 2015 Sidney Konigsberg, 2002 Zubin Mehta, 2013 Yitzhak Rabin MK, 1990 Dr. Christian Hodler, 1998 Yaacov Kotlicki, 2011 Etia Meilichson, 1997 Prof. Seymour Rabinowitz, Dr. Nicholas J. Hoff, 1980 Theodore H. Krengel, 2001 Prof. Angelo Miele, 1992 1991 Dr. Alan Hoffman, 1986 Dr. Hyman Mitchner, 2010 Bruce Rappaport, 1979 Prof. Roald Hoffmann, 1996 L Gen (Res.) Amram Mitzna, 2010 Ruth Rappaport, 2014 Prof. Robert Hofstadter, 1985 Frank R. Lautenberg, 1984 Dr. A. I. (Ed) Mlavsky, 1994 Dr. Johannes Rau, 2000 Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev, 1984 Benny Landa, 2004 Dov Moran, 2016 Leon Y. Recanati, 1999 Dr. F. Houphouet-Biogny, 1962 Justice Moshe Landau, 1980 Martin Paul Moshal, 2017 Arnold Recht, 1999 Eli Hurwitz, 1990 Prof. Rolf W. Landauer, 1991 Prof. Klaus A. Müllen, 2018 Prof. L. Rafael Reif, 2017 Prof. Robert S. Langer, 1997 Prof. Benno Müller-Hill, 2000 Prof. James R. Rice, 2005 I Dr. Stephen A. Laser, 2009 Peter Munk, 2001 Hershel Rich, 1998 Isin Ivanier, 1981 David Laskov, 1975 Dr. J. Fraser Mustard, 1995 Dr. L. A. Richards, 1952 Gen. (Res.) David Ivry, 1996 Dov Lautman, 1995 Louis B. Rogow, 1988 Dr. Jean-Yves Le Gall, 2018 N Barrie Rose, 2000 J Prof. Jean Marie Lehn, 2009 Avinoam Naor (Aharonovich), Daniel Rose, 2013 Lawrence S. Jackier, 2004 François Leotard, 1992 2008 David Rose, 1961 Dr Irwin M. Jacobs, 2000 Dr. Richard A. Lerner, 2001 Ruth Leventhal Nathanson, Edward E. Rosen, 1966 Ludwig Jesselson, 1988 William Lester, 1999 2010 Maurice M. Rosen, 1978 HE David Johnston, 2016 Gustave Leven, 1991 Samuel Neaman, 1982 Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld, 2004 Prof. Joshua Jortner, 2005 Hubert Leven, 2005 Dr. Yuval Ne’eman, 1966 Prof. Alvin E. Roth, 2013 Prof. Michel Jouvet, 1991 Prof. Michael Levitt, 2015 Shlomo Nehama, 2006 Joel S. Rothman, 2015 Prof. Jacques Lewiner, 2016 Robert Neter, 1999 Baroness Ariane de K Emanuel Zvi Liban, 2017 Joseph Neubauer, 2017 Rothschild, 2018 D. Dan Kahn, 2011 Robert L’Hermite, 1960 Dr. Caroll V. Newsom, 1958 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, 1982 Prof. Thomas Kailath, 2011 Israel Libertovsky, 1987 Itzhak Nissan, 2012 Lord Rothschild, 1968 Dean Kamen, 2015 Arch. Daniel Libeskind, 2008 M. Novomeysky, 1957 Sanford Kaplan, 1995 Eric Lidow, 1984 S Dr. Shlomo Kaplansky, 1950 Prof. Anders Lindquist, 2010 O Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Dani Karavan, 2009 Sir Ben Lockspeiser, 1952 Harry Oppenheimer, 1989 2018 Prof. Marcus Karel, 1991 Lorry I. Lokey, 2007 Dr. Eli Opper, 2012 Lily Safra, 2018 Prof. Samuel Karlin, 1985 Dr. Walter C. Lowdermilk, 1952 Prof. Simon Ostrach, 1986 Dr. Henry Samueli, 2005 Prof. Theodore von Karman, Prof. Robert E. Lucas, Jr., 1996 George Sarton, 1953 1951 P Ed Satell, 2016 Prof. Richard M. Karp, 1989 M Prof. Amnon Pazy, 2006 Prof. Harold A. Scheraga, 1993 Prof. Alfred Kastler, 1983 Prof. Thomas L. Magnanti, 2007 Lois Peltz, 2006 Dr. M. Schiffer, 1972 Prof. Ephraim Katzir, 1983 Alexandre Mallat, 2002 Dr. Arno A. Penzias, 1986 Maximilian Schlomiuk, 1989 Martin Kellner, 1985 Alfred E. Mann, 2005 Shimon Peres MK, 1985 Michael Schor, 1985 HONORARY DEGREES AND AWARDS

Seymour Schulich, 2007 T Dr. Robert B. Woodward, 1966 Norman Belmonte, 1997 Prof. Helmut Schwarz, 2000 Joseph Tanenbaum, 2007 J. W. Wunsch, 1955 Louis Benjamin, 1986 Al Schwimmer, 1968 Henry Taub, 1983 Miriam Benjamin, 1986 Joan Seidel, 2012 Marilyn Taub, 2014 Y Evelyn Berger, 2001 Norman Seiden, 1986 PM Margaret Thatcher, 1989 Prof. Rosalyn Sussman Ilene and Steve Berger, 2017 J. R. Sensibar, 1963 Prof. Edwin L. Thomas, 2016 Yalow, 1989 Stephen Berger, 1982 Dr. Donna Shalala, 1994 Dr. Lester C. Thurow, 2001 Moshe Yanai, 2012 Sondra Berk, 2014 Prof. Rachel Shalon, 1988 Laurence A. Tisch, 1989 Elisha Yanay, 2013 Samuel M. Bernstein, 1975 Prof. Ascher H. Shapiro, 1985 Gen. Dan Tolkowsky, 1982 S. J. Birn, 1965 Max Shein, 1993 Sam B. Topf, 1992 Z Franklin G. Bishop, 1991 Irving A. Shepard, 2001 Prof. Barry M. Trost, 1997 Dr Felix Zandman, 1997 Scott Black, 1999 Dr. Bernard Sherman, 2004 Abraham Tulin, 1957 Prof. Bruno Zevi, 1990 Helene Blanc, 1991 Leonard H. Sherman, 1994 Stanley Zielony, 2003 Morley Blankstein, 1981 Dr. Robert J. Shillman, 2018 U Zvi Zilker, 2000 Ela Rousso de Blasbalg, 1993 Stanley Shirvan, 2006 Jacob W. Ullmann, 1980 Yehuda Zisapel, 2001 Dahlia Blech, 2004 Avraham B. Shochat, 2002 Dr. Harold C. Urey, 1962 Zohar Zisapel, 2001 Arthur Blok, 1954 George P. Shultz, 1992 Prof. Heinrich Peter Klaus Melvyn H. Bloom, 1993 Gil Shwed, 2004 Ursprung, 1996 Harry J. F. Bloomfield, Q.C., Ramie Silbert, 1996 HONORARY 2015 Julius Silver, 1971 V FELLOWS** Ilse Blumenfeld, 2009 Prof. Barry Simon, 1999 Dr. Yossi Vardi, 2009 Milford Bohm, 1999 Dr. David J. Skorton, 2016 Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, 2000 Rebecca Boukhris, 2015 Haim Slavin, 1958 A David Brecher, 2004 Prof. Richard E. Smalley, 2004 W Giora Ackerstein, 2010 Frances Brody, 1992 Prof. Louis D. Smullin, 1986 Dr. Selman A. Waksman, 1966 Reuven Agassi, 2008 Gen. (Res.) Shlomo Dr. Solomon H. Snyder, 2002 Eyal Waldman, 2016 Dr. Qanta Ahmed, 2015 Burstein-Inbar, 2008 Michael Sobol, 1980 Prof. Arieh Warshel, 2015 Aron Ain, 2014 Marshall Butler, 1994 Jonathan Sohnis, 2008 Sanford I. Weill, 2015 Dr Kenneth Alberman, 1995 Ben Sosewitz, 1999 Prof. Felix J. Weinberg, 1990 Ruth Alon, 2013 C Prof. Jason L. Speyer, 2013 Aharon Weiner, 1971 Carl Alpert, 1988 Joan Callner Miller, 1984 Dr. Philip Sporn, 1960 Prof. Victor F. Weisskopf, 1989 Yosef Ami, 1990 Dr Coleman Caplovitz, 2007 Prof. Günter Spur, 2012 Prof. Charles Weissmann, Helen Asher, 1991 Arie Carasso, 1976 Prof. Peter J. Stang, 2014 2015 Victor Asser, 2009 Benjamin Carasso, 2004 Eugene Stearns, 1986 Dr. Chaim Weizmann, 1952 Drora Avissar, 2012 Macabi Carasso, 2007 Harry J. Stern, 2000 Eitan Wertheimer , 2011 Yoel Carasso, 2007 Prof. Eli Sternberg, 1984 Stef Wertheimer, 1992 B Stanley Chais, 2002 Ing. Isaac (Eddie) Lewis Weston, 1996 Alfred J. Bär, 1995 Leona Chanin, 2004 Streifler Shavit, 2003 Prof. Elie Wiesel, 2005 Moshe Bar-Ilan, 1995 Paul Chanin, 1993 Prof. Werner Stumm, 1989 Dr. Eugene Paul Wigner, 1971 Zahava Bar-Nir, 2004 Jack Chisvin, 1983 Prof. Nam Pyo Suh, 2007 Dr. Shmuel Winograd, 1992 Itzhak Bar-Nov, 1992 Frances Cohen, 1984 Dr. Avraham Suhami, 1981 Ben Winters, 1993 Sarah Baruchin, 1986 Simcha Cohen-Stern, 1999 Albert Sweet, 2014 Dr. J. Wolfowitz, 1972 Albert Ben-David, 1990 Hans Cohn, 2003 Gerard Swope, 1957 Lord Leonard Wolfson, 1995 Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yitzhak Reginald Coleman-Cohen, Joseph Szydlowski, 1984 Prof. Chi-Huey Wong, 2007 Ben Dov, 2003 1983 Jack Bellock, 2000 Alexander Coler, 1988

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Maurice Commanday, 1986 Alan Forman, 2005 Robert Hanisee, 2016 Alexander Konoff, 1949 Sydney Cooper, 1988 Reinhard Frank, 2004 Burt I. Harris, 1987 Richard Aaron Koplow, 1992 Eedis Cooperband, 1981 Benjamin Free, 1991 Louis Harris, 1988 Yaacov Kotlicki, 2006 Jeffery Cosiol, 2012 Joseph Freed, 1998 Lawrence Harvey, 1977 Abba Kramer, 1988 David Friedman, 2001 Leo M. Harvey, 1972 Theodore Krengel, 1984 D Jerry Friedman, 1993 Alexander Hassan, 1975 Reuben Kunin, 1991 Jeannette Dankner, 2005 Michael Frieze, 2000 Max Hecker, 1954 Robert Davidow, 1997 Michael Fuerst, 2010 Tess Heffner, 1994 L Oscar Davis, 2011 Dr. Hiroshi Fujiwara, 2018 Michael Heller, 2002 Yeshayahu Landau, 1992 Albert Deloro, 2014 Samuel Fryer, 1959 Rose Herrmann, 1978 Ing. Zvi Langer, 1981 André Deloro, 2009 Sandy Hittman, 2009 Dr. Stephen A. Laser, 2003 Brent Dibner, 2013 G Dr. Christian Hodler, 1994 Ron Lazarovits, 2013 David Dibner, 2001 Mark Gaines, 2017 Ruth Hoenich, 2001 Scott Leemaster, 2009 Prof. Dr Ing. Ulrich Dr. Terry Gardner, 2017 Zeev Holtzman, 2016 Sidney Lejfer, 2011 Draugelates, 2002 Mark Gelfand, 2008 Charles Housen, 1997 Prof. Yossi Leshem, 2017 Max Dresher, 1985 Samuel Geltman, 1998 William Lester, 1991 Jerome Drexler, 1999 Raya Gensler, 1994 I Avraham Lev, 1976 Melvin Dubin, 1991 Moshe Bernard Gitter, 1979 Ivoncy Ioschpe, 1997 Ruth Leventhal Nathanson, Zvi Dvoresky, 1993 Dr. Amit Goffer, 2015 Dr. Jacob Isler, 1970 2007 Dr. Isaac Dvoretzky, 2006 Aviva Goldberg, 2010 Ing. Shaul Ivtsan, 2006 Charles Levin, 2010 Gary Goldberg, 2005 Prof. Jacques Lewiner, 2006 E Nathan Goldberg, 1977 J Leon Lidow, 1976 Louis Edelstein, 1995 Joan Goldberg Arbuse, 1982 Joseph H. Jackier, 1985 Prof. Asger Lindegaard- Dr. George Elbaum, 2016 Nathan Max Goldman, 1992 Lawrence Jackier, 2000 Andersen, 1995 Anna Tulin Elyachar, 1983 Horace W. Goldsmith, 1975 Jacobs K. Javits, 1973 Louis L. Lockshin, 1979 Col. Jehiel R. Elyachar, 1953 Ing. Aharon Goldstein, 1971 Martin Jelin, 1985 Trudy Louis, 1994 Rita Emerson, 2016 Salomon Gottesfeld, 1985 Ludwig Jesselson, 1973 J. Steven Emerson, 2008 Ben-Ami Gov, 2010 Anatol Josepho, 1980 M Dr Joseph N. Epel, 1987 Salman Grand, 1986 Prof. Eliahu I. Jury, 2001 Louis Bernard Magil, 1983 Carol B. Epstein, 2009 Doreen Green, 2000 Alexandre Mallat, 1997 Alex J. Etkin, 1995 Irving Greenberg, 1990 K Hal Marcus, 2006 Aaron Etra, 2004 Marguerite Greenberg, 2000 D. Dan Kahn, 2006 William Marcus, 1996 Joseph K. Even, 1991 Coleman Kenneth Shmuel Kantor, 1989 Dr. Shlomo Markel, 2016 Greidinger, 2006 Daniel Karp, 1994 Dr. Moshe Marom, 2018 F Chaim M. Gringlas, 1989 Eyal Kaplan, 2016 Sonia Marschak, 2015 Yekutiel Federmann, 1978 Irwin L. Gross, 2007 Dr. Albert A. Kaufman, 1991 Justice Roy Matas, 1981 Israel Feldman, 1992 Josef Gruenblat, 1979 Dorothy Kellner, 1999 Frank G. Meyer, 2002 Rod Feldman, 2014 Joseph Gurwin, 1996 Leon Kempler OAM, 2008 Pearl Milch, 1980 Elias Fife, 1955 Dipl. Ing. Helmut Gutmann, Adelaide Kennedy Leigh, 1991 Raphael Mishan, 2012 Ruben Finkelstein, 1985 1994 Michael Kennedy Leigh, 1975 Dr. Hyman Mitchner, 2003 Fausta Finzi Carli, 2011 Aaron Gutwirth, 1978 Avi Kerbs, 2015 Andre Molleson, 1989 Edith Fischer, 2001 Nathan Kirsch, 1984 Monte Monaster, 1989 Ruth Elaine Flinkman- H Michael Klein, 2010 Mark Moshevicz, 1983 Marandy, 2012 Uzi Halevy, 2014 Philip E. Klein, 1998 Prof. Burkhart Müller, 2001 Benjamin Fohrman, 1991 Dr. Harry Handelsman, 2011 Stephen B. Klein, 2016 Ing. Gen. Robert Munnich, Rudolph Forchheimer, 1997 Tamara Handelsman, 1998 Sidney Konigsberg, 1997 1985 HONORARY DEGREES AND AWARDS

N S Senator Paul B. W Ernest Nathan, 1982 Nina Sabban, 2004 Steinberg, 2012 Dr. Arthur Wein, 1998 Albert Nerken, 1992 Eliyahu Sacharov, 1973 Sir Louis Sterling, 1956 Naomi Weiss Newman, 2014 Tzvi Neta, 2009 Edmundo Safdie, 1991 Harry Stern, 1993 K. B. Weissman, 1997 Albert Newman, 1989 Ed Satell, 2011 Harry J. Stern, 1996 Eli Welt, 2002 Yehezkel Nussbaum, 1996 Stefanie Sonia Schreier, 1984 Ivan Stern, 2010 Irving Wenger, 1991 Dorothy Schussheim, 1992 Haim Stoessel, 1999 Mary Werksman, 1996 O Alf Schwarcbaum, 1983 Harold M. Stone, 1989 Lewis M. Weston, 1987 Seniel Ostrow, 1982 Arnold Seidel, 2017 Ing. Isaac (Eddie) Streifler Alexander Whyte, 1972 Joan Seidel, 2005 Shavit, 1989 William Wiener, 2005 P Norman Seiden, 1979 Henri Strosberg, 1986 Irma Wigdor, 1984 Daniel Peltz, 2014 Les Seskin, 2018 Louis Susman, 1980 Dan Wind, 1996 Lois Peltz, 2000 Emanuel Shachar, 1990 Stanley Sussman, 2011 Ben Winters, 1991 David Polak, 2001 Uriel Shalon, 1982 Albert Sweet, 2011 Roma Broida Wittcoff, 1992 Herbert W. Pollack, 2004 William Shamban, 1997 Janey Sweet, 2007 Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1956 Allen Prince, 2015 Andy Shapiro, 2014 Richard Swig, 1995 Sidney Wolberg, 1989 Miriam Pushkar, 2000 Dr. Stephen Shapiro, 1993 Mariane Szego, 2008 The Hon. Laura Wolfson Dr. Zalman M. Shapiro, 1988 Sandor Szego, 2008 Townsley, 2012 R Maurice Meir Shashoua, 2012 Abel Wolman, 1972 Judge Leonard Rabinowitz, Paul M. Shatz, 2011 T Joseph W. Wunsch, 1946 1984 Max Shein, 1978 Victor Tabah, 1973 Susan Raymer and Rona Ramon, 2018 Irving A. Shepard, 1988 Joseph Tanenbaum, 2000 Benjamin Wygodny, 2017 Norbert M. Rand, 1997 Harry Sheres, 1989 L. Shirley Tark, 1979 Bennett Rechler, 2009 Beatrice Sherman, 1982 Henry Taub, 1980 Y Hannah Rechler Leonard H. Sherman, 1987 Isaac Taylor, 1977 Solm Yach, 1980 Rabinowitz, 2009 Nate Sherman, 1977 Dov Tirosh, 1997 Elisha Yanay, 1998 Arnold Recht, 1994 Norton Sherman, 1996 Gen. Dan Tolkowsky, 1975 Chaim Yaron, 2009 Hershel Rich, 1992 Barnett Shine, 1972 Sam Topf, 1983 Eugene N. Riesman, 1986 Stanley Shirvan, 1999 Benjamin B. Torchinsky, 1999 Z Joseph Riesman, 1976 David Silbert, 1984 Col. Yitzhak Turgeman, 2003 Shlomo Zabledowitz, 1984 Morris Rochlin, 2002 Gerald Silbert, 1993 Samuel Zabner, 1992 Louis Rogow, 1983 Ramie Silbert, 1988 U Prof. Gerd-Volker Peter Simon, 1993 Jacob W. Ullmann, 1972 Röschenthaler, 2012 Cindy Sipkin, 2008 Yona Uspiz, 1994 ALUMNI Maurice M. Rosen, 1972 Rafael Sirkis, 2011 MEDAL Howard Rosenbloom, 2010 Jack Skodnek, 2006 V Dr. Martin and Grace Esther Smidof, 2005 Clément Vaturi, 1993 Rosman, 2018 Jonathan Sohnis, 2001 Lauren and John Veronis, David Perlmutter, 2018 Shmuel Rotem, 2005 Ben Sosewitz, 1990 2019 Joel Rothman, 2010 Eugene Stearns, 1976 Dan Vilenski, 2005 Gyora Rubinstein, 1997 Louis Stein, 1982 Joshua and Julia Ruch, 2016 PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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The Harvey Prize, established in 1971 by Leo M. Harvey of Los Angeles, is awarded annually at THE HARVEY PRIZE Technion for exceptional achievements in science, technology, and human health, and for outstanding contributions to peace in the Middle East, to society and to the economy.

RECIPIENTS

Prof. James P. Allison, 2014 Prof. Shlomo Dov Goitein, 1980 Prof. Benjamin Mazar, 1986 Prof. Vladimir I. Arnold, 1994 Mikhail Gorbachev, 1992 Prof. Shuji Nakamura, 2009 Dr. Arthur Ashkin, 2004 Prof. Michael Graetzel, 2007 Prof. Judea Pearl, 2011 Prof. Robert Aumann, 1983 Prof. Harry B. Gray, 2000 Prof. James E. Peebles, 2001 Prof. Sir David Baulcombe, 2009 Prof. David J. Gross, 2000 Prof. Jacob Polotsky, 1982 Prof. Wolfgang P. Baumeister, 2005 Prof. Stephen E. Harris, 2007 Prof. Alexander M. Polyakov, 2010 Dr. Charles H. Bennett, 2008 Prof. Peter Hegemann, 2016 Prof. Michael Rabin, 1980 Prof. Charles L. Bennett, 2006 Prof. Wayne A. Hendrickson, 2004 Prof. Ephraim Racker, 1980 Prof. Seymour Benzer, 1977 Prof. Eric Kandel, 1993 Prof. Barnett Rosenberg, 1985 Prof. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 1999 Prof. Michael Karin, 2010 Prof. Franz Rosenthal, 1984 Prof. Immanuel Bloch, 2015 Prof. Richard Karp, 1998 Prof. Bert Sakmann, 1991 Prof. Sydney Brenner, 1987 Prof. Marc Kirschner, 2015 Prof. Gershom Scholem, 1974 Dr. John Cahn, 1995 Prof. George Klein, 1975 Prof. Claude E. Shannon, 1972 Prof. Pierre Chambon, 1987 Prof. Jon M. Kleinberg, 2013 Prof. Barry Sharpless, 1998 Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, 1996 Dr. Donald Knuth, 1995 Prof. Carla J. Shatz, 2017 Prof. Paul B. Corkum, 2013 Prof. Willem J. Kolf, 1972 Dr. Peter Sorokin, 1984 Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, 1974 Prof. Roger D. Kornberg, 1997 Prof. Edward Teller, 1975 Prof. George B. Dantzig, 1985 Prof. Hans W. Kosterlitz, 1981 Prof. Kip Stephen Thorne, 2016 Prof. Karl Deisseroth, 2016 Prof. Eric Lander, 2012 Prof. Bert Vogelstein, 2001 Dr. Robert H. Dennard, 1990 Prof. Robert Langer, 2003 Prof. Isaak Wahl, 1978 Prof. Peter B. Dervan, 2002 Prof. Paul C. Lauterbur, 1986 Prof. Alvin Weinberg, 1982 Prof. Ronald Drever, 2016 Prof. Philip Leder, 1983 Prof. Robert A. Weinberg, 1994 Prof. Freeman John Dyson, 1977 Prof. Bernard Lewis, 1978 Prof. Rainer Weiss, 2016 Prof. David Eisenberg, 2008 Prof. Saul Lieberman, 1976 Prof. Edward Witten, 2005 Prof. Ronald M. Evans, 2006 Sir James Lighthill, 1981 Prof. Amnon Yariv, 1992 Prof. Sir Richard Friend, 2011 Prof. C. Walton Lillehei, 1996 Prof. Eli Yablonovitch, 2012 Prof. Hillel Furstenberg, 1993 Prof. Jacques-Louis Lions, 1991 Prof. Ada E. Yonath, 2002 Prof. Robert G. Gallager, 1999 Dr. Benoit B. Mandelbrot, 1989 Prof. Richard Zare, 1993 Prof. Pierre-Gilles de-Gennes, 1988 Prof. Herman F. Mark, 1976 Prof. Reinhard Genzel, 2014 Prof. Tobin J. Marks, 2017 BOARD OF GOVERNORS

HONORARY CHAIR ACADEMIC MEMBERS Mooly (Shmuel) Eden, Israel Moshe Lichtman, Israel Uzia Galil, Israel* Dr. George Elbaum, USA Yoseph Linde, Israel Prof. Bertil Andersson, Singapore J. Steven Emerson, USA Lorry I. Lokey, USA CHAIR Prof. Robert Calderbank, USA Carol Epstein, USA Dr. Yoelle Maarek, Israel* Lawrence Jackier, USA* Prof. Stephen Forrest, USA Prof. Yuri Estrin, Australia Mr., Israel Makov, Israel Prof. Suzanne Fortier, Canada Irwin Field, USA Prof. Fadel Mansour, Israel* DEPUTY CHAIRS Prof. Barbara J. Grosz, USA Edith Fischer, USA Dana Maor, Israel Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev, Israel* Prof. Sunil Kumar, USA Ruth Flinkman-Marandy, USA Joshua Maor, Israel Norman Seiden, USA Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Israel Alan Forman, USA Inge Marcus, USA CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL Prof. Helmut Schwarz, Germany Dr. Gilead Fortuna, Israel* Dr. Shlomo Markel, Israel Gideon Frank* Prof. Wei Shyy, Hong Kong Prof. Eby Friedman, USA Dan Maydan, USA Prof. Barry Simon, USA Iaqueaniello Gaetano, Italy Aryeh Mergi, Israel PRESIDENT Mark Gaines, USA Jonathan Metliss, Great Britain Prof. Peretz Lavie* MEMBERS Dr. Terry N. Gardner, USA Giora Meyuhas, Israel Jacques Garih, France Melvyn Miller, USA EXECUTIVE SENIOR VICE Joseph Ackerman, Israel Itschak Gat, Israel Gary Monnickendam, Great Britain PRESIDENT Dr. Eitan Adres, Israel David Gat, Israel Dov Moran, Israel Prof. Adam Shwartz* Reuven Agassi, Israel Eric Gertler, USA Dr. Alfred Munzer, USA EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Dr. Rafael Aharoni, Hong Kong James Gertler, USA Avinoam Naor, Israel FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Ruth Alon, Israel* Zohar Gilon, Israel Rafi Nave, Israel Prof. Hagit Attiya Yoram Alster, Israel* Dr. Amit Goffer, Israel Shlomo Nehama, Israel Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, Israel Gary Goldberg, Canada Meir Nissensohn, Israel EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Judge Hanoch Ariel, Israel Ben-Ami Gov, Israel Gilad Novik, Israel FOR RESEARCH Avraham Ashkenazi, USA Stephen Grand, USA Dr. Eli Opper, Israel Prof. Wayne Kaplan Avraham (Lulu) Assaf, Israel Doreen Green, Canada Prof. Meir Oren, Israel Victor Asser, Greece Daniel Gutenberg, Switzerland Marvin Ostin, Canada EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Eli Ayalon, Israel Gal Haber, Israel Dr. Edgar H. Paltzer, Switzerland & DIRECTOR GENERAL Dr. Naomi Azrieli, Canada Gen. (Res.) Shalom Hagai, Israel* Guido Pardo-Roques, Israel Prof. Zalman Palmor Avi Balashnikov, Israel* Gad Haker, Israel Daniel Peltz, Great Britain Colonel (ret.) Natan Barak, Israel Robert Hanisee, USA Lois Peltz, Great Britain VICE PRESIDENT FOR EXTERNAL Zahava Bar-Nir, USA Lady Morven Heller, Great Britain David Perlmutter, Israel RELATIONS & RESOURCE Sarah Baruchin, Israel Sir Michael Heller, Great Britain Orni Petrushka, Israel DEVELOPMENT Dr. Nayim Bayat, Germany Peter Hersh, Australia Prof. Eliot Phillipson, Canada Prof. Boaz Golany Norman Belmonte, USA PD Dr. med. Victor E. Hofman, Prof. Guilherme Ary Plonski, Brazil DEAN OF THE JACOBS Danny Benardout, Greece Switzerland Rina Pridor, Israel GRADUATE SCHOOL Dr. Albert Ben-David, Israel Dr. Irit Idan, Israel* Dan Propper, Israel Prof. Dan Givoli Jacques Benkoski, USA Maj. Gen. (Res.) Shlomo Inbar Irith Rappaport, Israel Gen. (Res.) Avihu Ben-Nun, Israel (Burstein), Israel Dr. Ruth Ratner, Australia DEAN OF UNDERGRADUATE Matilda Beracha, Greece Ing. Shaul Ivtsan, Israel Leon Recanati, Israel STUDIES Steve Berger, USA Michael Kagan, Israel Arnold Recht, Canada Prof. Orit Hazzan Harry Bloomfield, Canada Dr. Shlomo Kalish, Israel Prof. Dr. Oscar-Werner Reif, Germany Lucien Y. Bronicki, Israel Ronnie Kaplan, Canada Shlomo Reisman, Israel DEAN OF STUDENTS Shraga Brosh, Israel Miri Katz, Israel Prof. Dr. Gerd-Volker Roschenthaler, Prof. Benveniste Natan Pinchas Buchris Barel, Israel Ilana Kaufman, Israel* Germany Paul Burg, USA Avi Kerbs, Israel Howard Rosenbloom, USA DEAN OF THE AZRIELI DIVISION Yoel Carasso, Israel Moshe Keret, Israel Martin Rosman, USA FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION Joseph Ciechanover, Israel Michael Klein, USA Grace Rosman, USA & EXTERNAL STUDIES Ofer Kotler, Israel Helio Bruck Rotenberg, Brazil Prof. Zeev Gross Dr. Edith Cresson, France Dr. Jacob Dagan, Israel Yaacov Kotlicki, Israel Joel Rothman, USA CHAIR OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Mr., Israel David, Israel Prof. Gabriel P. Krestin, Netherlands Haim Rousso, Israel Sigal First Robert Davidow, USA Kobi Kurtz, Netherlands Kobi Rozengarten, Israel Brent Dibner, USA Benny Landa, Israel Joshua Ruch, USA MAYOR OF HAIFA Shimon Dick, Israel Dr. Stephen Laser, USA Julia Ruch, USA Einat Kalisch Rotem Prof. Francois Diederich Switzerland Ron Lauder, USA Nina Sabban, USA Dr. Alon Dumanis, Israel Ron Lazarovits, Australia Dr. Yoav Sarne, Israel EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Moshe Dunie, USA Scott Leemaster, USA Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheper, Germany Adv. Asaf Binder Ing. Zvi Dvoresky, Israel Isaac-Sakis Leon, Greece Benny Schnaider, Israel Dr. Shimon Eckhouse, Israel Prof. Jacques Lewiner, France Arik Schor, Israel

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Yigal Schreiber, Israel Zohar Zisapel, Israel Pearl Gameroff, Canada REPRESENTATIVES OF GROUPS Prof. Arie Scope, Israel Miriam Ziv, Israel Edward R. Goldberg, USA AND ORGANIZATIONS Dr. Yoram Sebba, Israel* Dr. Amir Ziv-Av, Israel* Sofia L. Grimberg, Argentina Arnold Seidel, USA Gary Gross, USA ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS Joan Seidel, USA ALTERNATE MEMBERS Jack Hahn, Canada AND ARCHITECTS Norman Seiden, USA Dr. Michael Helper, Canada Simcha Afek Stephen Seiden, USA Aron Ain, USA Dr. Christian Hodler, Germany Amnon Bartal Les Seskin, USA Jack Bensimon, Canada Charles Housen, USA Emanuel Zvi Liban Haim Shani, Israel Ilene Berger, USA Ivoncy B. Ioschpe, Brazil Ing. Shaul Shashoua, Brazil Howard Berish, Canada Dr. Irwin Jacobs, USA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Janet Shatz-Snyder, USA Serge Bitboul, France Maggie Kaplan, USA Eyal Kaplan* Raphi Shavit, Israel Steve Bramson, Canada Barbara Kay, USA Dr. Ilana Maor Leonard H. Sherman, USA Marilyn Caplovitz, USA Nathan Kirsh, South Africa Dr. Merry Sherman Saifer, USA Neil Closner, Canada Stephen B. Klein, USA PROFESSORS Dr. Robert Shillman, USA Rita Emerson, USA Alexander Lidow, USA Prof. Assa Auerbach Stanley Shirvan, USA Rod Feldman, USA Raphael Mishan, USA Prof. Alfred Bruckstein* Avraham (Baiga) Shochat, Israel Gill Fishman, USA Jonathan Mitchell, USA Prof. Ariel Orda* Melissa Singer, Canada Laura Flug, USA Dr. Hyman Mitchner, USA Prof. Yehuda Pinchover* Gadi Singer, Israel Harold Garfinkle, Canada Ruth Nathanson Leventhal, USA Rafael Sirkis, Israel Jon Hirschtick, USA Justice Shoshana Netanyahu, Israel PROFESSORS EMERITI Jonathan Sohnis, USA Tommy Klatzkow, Sweden Prof. Dr. Ewald Nowotny, Austria Prof. Abraham Berman Yitzhak (Eddie) Streifler-Shavit, Israel Agota Kuperman, USA Samuel Pisar, France Stefan Sturesson, Sweden Sid Lejfer, USA David Polak, USA TEACHING STAFF UNION Prof. Dr. Roderich Suessmuth, Charles Levin, USA Herbert Pollack, USA Aviv Sharon Germany William Marcus, USA Rachel Pollak, Israel Ing. Sandor Szego, Brazil Steve Merling, Canada Eugene Riesman, Canada FACULTY ASSOCIATION Prof. Zehev Tadmor, Israel Hans Nachmann, Sweden Morris Rochlin, USA Prof. Eyal Zussman Rami Tamir, Israel Ruth Owades, USA Barrie Rose, Canada Ira Taub, USA Beth Perlman, USA Elihu Rose, USA ORGANIZATION OF PRACTICAL Irwin Tauben, Canada Paul Raducanu, Canada Daniel Rose, USA ENGINEERS (HANDESSAIM) Gideon Tolkowsky, Israel Bennett Rechler, USA Shmuel Rotem, Israel David Avi Catherine Trautmann, France David Ronn, USA Eric Samson, South Africa Gen. (Res.) Itzhak Turgeman, Israel* Andrea Rush, Canada Eugene B. Shapiro, USA M4 ORGANIZATION: Oded Tyrah, Israel Senator Paul B. Steinberg, USA Paul M. Shatz, USA THE ACADEMIC EMPLOYEES Pim Van Den Dam, Netherlands Jozef Stern, Sweden Harry Sheres, Canada UNION AT THE TECHNION Dr. Yossi Vardi, Israel Lauren Veronis, USA Emanuel Shimoni, Israel Zvi Bar-Deroma John Veronis, USA Prof. Dr. Katja Windt, Germany Abe Simkin, Canada Dan Vilenski, Israel Janey Sweet, USA UNION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE Dr. Andrew Viterbi, USA HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Bernice Tanenbaum, USA WORKERS AT TECHNION Dr. Kobi Vortman, Israel Maj. Gen. (Res.) Dan Tolkowsky, Aliza Blasberg Eyal Waldman, Israel Paul Bernstein, USA Israel Prof. Dr. Peter Weinberger, Austria Dr. Joel Birnbaum, USA Lucy Ullmann, USA ORGANIZATION OF Joseph Weiss, Israel Scott Black, USA Yona Uspiz, Israel TECHNION PENSIONERS Arthur A. Weiss, USA Dr. Ilan Blech, USA Efraim-François Wasservogel, Israel Moshe Barak Naftali Weitman, Israel Robert Brand, USA Mary Werksman, USA Eitan Wertheimer, Israel Leona Chanin, USA Stef Wertheimer, Israel STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Avigdor Willenz, Israel Jack Chisvin, Canada Bruce F. Whizin, USA Undergraduate Students Andrea Wolfe, USA Mrs., Frances Helen Cohen, USA Roma Wittcoff, USA Amir Gerti Ben Wygodny, Canada Elizabeth Corob, Great Britain Estelle Yach, South Africa Ido Weiser-Bitoun Yoram Yaacovi, Israel Jeannette Dankner, Israel Ruth Ziegler, USA Danny Yamin, Israel Richard Davidson, USA Robert Zinn, USA Graduate Students Res. Gen. Shlomo Yanai, Israel Michael Dresner, Israel Amir David Nissan Cohen Elisha Yanay, Israel Prof. Jerome Drexler, USA Asaf Hershkovitz Chaim Yaron, Israel Meyer G. Frank, USA Dr. Giora Yaron, Israel Joseph Freed, USA Imad Younis, Israel* Dr. Avi Friedman, Canada Avi Zeevi, Israel Michael Frieze, USA Yehuda Zisapel, Israel Uzia Galil, Israel* FACTS AND FIGURES

NUMBER OF STUDENTS 2018 - 2019 Bachelor’s: 9,859 Master’s: 2,573 2000 Doctorate: 1,155 Total: 13,587

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Biology Physics Chemistry Medicine Chemical Eng. Electrical Eng. Mathematics Aerospace Eng. Biomedical Eng. Mechanical Eng. Computer Science International School General Eng. (M. Eng.) Biotechnology & Food Eng. Civil & Environmental Eng. Materials Science & Eng. Architecture & Town Planning Industrial Eng. & Management Education in Science & Technology Technion Excellence Program** Multidisciplinary Graduate Programs* * Applied Mathematics; Autonomous Systems & Robotics; Biotechnology; Design & Manufacturing Engineering; Energy; Polymer Engineering; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Real Estate Studies; Systems Engineering; Urban Engineering; and Vehicle Systems Engineering **First year intake and not including medical students

DEGREES AWARDED TOTAL DEGREES AWARDED FAST FACTS 2019 (graduates) (1924 - 2019)

FOUNDED 1912 2018 2019 STUDENT POPULATION 13,587 Bachelor’s 1,967 1,992 Bachelor’s 84,720 ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS 18 MD 148 139* MD 3,000 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS 50 Master’s 908 921 Master’s 23,614 PhD 216 216 PhD 5,805 GRADUATE PROGRAMS 83 TOTAL 3,239 3,266 TOTAL 117,139 DEGREES AWARDED 117,139 * Including 18 on the Technion American Medical School Program FACULTY 565 TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF 1,083 TOTAL STUDENT POPULATION

RESEARCH CENTERS 60 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS 106 BSc 9,503 9,536 9,819 9,622 9,354 MD 459 476 501 436 505 BUILT-UP AREA 468,477 m2 MSc 2,886 3,127 3,105 2,879 2,573 DORMITORY BEDS 4,977 PhD 1,078 1,147 1,113 1,150 1,155 TOTAL 13,926 14,286 14,538 14,087 13,587

All data correct to May 1st, 2019 FISCAL PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019 OVERVIEW 61

OPERATING BUDGET SPONSORED RESEARCH 2018/2019 FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES (October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2019) ($US M)

96.9 Income Thousands of NIS % 92.8 89.8 Government Allocation 1,094,550 71.1 86.9 86.3 83.8 83.3 Self Income 228,400 14.9 Tuition Fees 126,000 8.2 71.4 Technion Societies 63,200 4.1 Deficit 26,924 1.7 Total Income 1,539,074 100%

Expenditure Staff Emoluments 773,034 50.2 Pension Payments 297,464 19.3 Operating Expenses 216,462 14.1 Maintenance 129,108 8.4 Student Aid 123,006 8.0 Total Expenditures 1,539,074 100% 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

(*) The actuarial liability of the Technion as of September 30, 2018 was NIS 6.0 billion. The consolidated liability (Technion and TRDF) is NIS 6.6 billion.

TOTAL INCOME FROM TECHNION TECHNION SOCIETIES INVESTMENT ($US M) Millions of NIS % 108.5 104.2 108.1 CPI Linked Investments 3,011 45 97.8 94.1 84.4 80.4 74.0 Stocks 1,985 30

Shekel Unlinked 1,468 22 Investments

Foreign Currency 236 3 Investments

Total 6,699 100% 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18

DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURE 2017/2018 ($US M) (October 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018)

72.3 Thousands Thousands of $US % of NIS*

43.6 Buildings, Renovations & 23,462 60.6 82,303 42.5 40.1 35.0 38.8 Infrastructure 31.1 26.4 Multidisciplinary Research Centers 6,994 18.0 24,730

Laboratories & Equipment 8,309 21.4 29,387

2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 Total 38,765 100% 136,420

* $US 1 = 3.627 NIS LEADERSHIP

Lawrence Jackier Gideon Frank Prof. Peretz Lavie Prof. Adam Shwartz Chairman of the Chairman of the Council President Senior Executive Vice President Board of Governors

Prof. Hagit Attiya Prof. Wayne Kaplan Prof. Zalman Palmor Prof. Boaz Golany Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Vice President for for Academic Affairs for Research and Director General External Relations and Resource Development

DEANS Wolfson Faculty of Faculty of Mechanical ADDITIONAL OFFICERS Chemical Engineering Engineering Dean of Undergraduate Studies Prof. Gideon Grader Prof. Oleg Gendelman Deputy Senior Vice President Prof. Orit Hazzan Prof. Alon Hoffman Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Dean of the Jacobs Prof. Noam Adir Prof. Elon Eisenberg Deputy Vice President for Research Graduate School Prof. Anath Fischer Prof. Dan Givoli Faculty of Civil and Faculty of Physics Environmental Engineering Prof. Ehud Behar Deputy Vice President for Research Dean of the Azrieli Division Prof. Oded Rabinovitch for the Pre-Clinical Research of Continuing Education Guangdong Technion-Israel Authority and External Studies Faculty of Computer Science Institute of Technology Prof. Jackie Schiller Prof. Zeev Gross Prof. Dan Geiger Vice Chancellor Prof. Eliezer Shalev Deputy Vice President Dean of Students Faculty of Education for Academic Affairs Prof. Benveniste Natan in Science and Technology Joan and Irwin Jacobs Prof. Avi Ostfeld Prof. Yehudit Judy Dori Technion-Cornell Institute Prof. Ron Brachman ACADEMIC HEADS Deputy Vice President for Com- Viterbi Faculty of Electrical puting and Information Systems Engineering Liaison Program with the Prof. Roy Friedman Faculty of Aerospace Prof. Nahum Shimkin Jacobs Institute and Engineering Collaboration with Cornell Deputy Vice President Prof. Itzchak Frankel Department of University for Safety Matters Humanities and Arts Prof. Ariel Orda Prof. Yaacov Mamane Faculty of Architecture Prof. Efraim Lev and Town Planning Assistant to the President Deputy Director General for Finance Assoc. Prof. Jacob Yasha Grobman Davidson Faculty of Industrial for Strategic Projects and Dganit Shindelman Engineering and Management Technion International Faculty of Biology Prof. Carmel Domshlak Prof. Paul Feigin Deputy Director General Prof. Yoram Reiter for Human Resources Faculty of Materials Science Technion Program for Excellence Ariel Hazan Faculty of Biomedical and Engineering Prof. Idit Keidar Engineering Prof. Yair Ein-Eli Deputy Director General Prof. Shulamit Levenberg Center for Pre-university of Operations Faculty of Mathematics Education Zehava Laniado Faculty of Biotechnology Prof. Michah Sageev Prof. Noam Soker and Food Engineering Prof. Marcelle Machluf FACULTY PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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Faculty Individuals Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) ACADEMIC Full Professor 226 226 FACULTY Associate Professor 165 164 2019 Assistant Professor 156 153.5 Lecturer 5 5 Others 13 12.5 Total 565 561

Clinical Track Appointments 343 125 External Adjuncts 793 290

NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS Dina Tsybulsky MEDICINE Clinical Lecturers Assistant Professor Sara Selig Offir Ben-Ishay ARCHITECTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AND Associate Professor Oren Yosef Ben-Lulu TOWN PLANNING FOOD ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL Liron Borenstein Shany Barath Amit Zeisel ENGINEERING Eitan Auriel Tatyana Ebert Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ido Kaminer Clinical Assoc. Professor Tamar Etzioni-Friedman Assistant Professor Dvir Froylich Emil Israel CIVIL AND Assistant Professors Gali Garmi Assistant Professor ENVIRONMENTAL Eilam Yalon Danny Eytan Alina German ENGINEERING Assistant Professor Yelena Granovsky Amnon Gil Zvi Koren Yaniv Edery Tamar Katz Yael Goldberg Assistant Professor Assistant Professor HUMANITIES AND ARTS Meir Preis Ayala Gover Avital Binah-Pollak Shiri Soudry Mordechai Grupper Matanya Sack Fadi Kizel Senior Teaching Fellow Michal Gur Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Clinical Asst. Professors Ori Hochwald INDUSTRIAL Efraim Aizen Olga Kagna Dan Price Sabrina Spatari ENGINEERING AND Amnon Amit Milian Kroitoru Assistant Professor Associate Professor MANAGEMENT Yaron Bar-Lavie Eti Kruzel-Davila Yoreh Barak Noa Lavi BIOLOGY COMPUTER SCIENCE Yair Goldberg Ilan Calderon Amit Lehavi Noga Ron-Harel Ron Rothblum Associate Professor Or Cohen-Inbar Issa Metanes Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Zeev Goldik Gai Milo Shlomi Laufer Amir Klein Erez Nadir Shay Stern Ori Rottenstreich Assistant Professor Gad Mendelson Shirley Portuguese Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ziv Neeman Sharon Reisfeld Shimrit Shtern Erez Sharoni Tarek Saadi BIOMEDICAL Inbal Talgam-Cohen Assistant Professor Sergey Yalonetsky Inna Tzoran Rosenthal ENGINEERING Assistant Professor Limor Freifeld MATERIALS SCIENCE Senior Clinical Lecturers Clinical Lecturers Assistant Professor Gala Yadgar AND ENGINEERING (Educators) (Educators) Assistant Professor Yehonadav Bekenstein Nira Beck-Razi Nina Avshovich Firas Mawase Assistant Professor Nizar Elias Yaron Berkovich Assistant Professor EDUCATION IN SCIENCE Michael Kaffman Yigal Elenberg AND TECHNOLOGY MATHEMATICS Assad Khoury Muli Linder Yosef Shamay Shirly Avargil Nir Lazarovich Alon Reshef Efrat Gil Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ilana Zalmon-Koren John Kennedy Rinat Rosenberg-Kima Lecturer Lecturer AWARDS AND HONORS 2018 - 2019*

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS The Aerosol Society American Society of Civil Foundation for AND HONORS DDL Emerging Engineers (ASCE) Landscape Studies Scientist Award Distinguished Member The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize Assoc. Prof. Josué Sznitman Prof. Emer. Uri Shamir Faculty of Biomedical Faculty of Civil and Assoc. Prof. Alona Engineering Environmental Engineering Nitzan-Shiftan Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Agora University of Oradea Association for Israel Honorary Doctor Studies (AIS) Annual Shapiro Award The Franklin Institute Prof. Alfred Bruckstein for Best Book in 2019 Benjamin Faculty of Computer Science Israel Studies Franklin Medal Assoc. Prof. Alona Dist. Visiting Prof. American Association Nitzan-Shiftan Eli Yablonovitch for the Advancement Faculty of Architecture Viterbi Faculty of of Science (AAAS) and Town Planning Electrical Engineering Sartorius and Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy Clarivate Analytics Horizon 2020: Highly Cited Researcher EU Framework Programme Asst. Prof. Yaron Fuchs for Research And Innovation Faculty of Biology Prof. Michael Elad European Research Council Faculty of Computer Science Grants (ERC) American Biophysical Prof. Emer. Basil Lewis Society (BPS) Rappaport Faculty ERC Starting Grant Margaret Oakley of Medicine Assoc. Prof. Ronen Talmon Dayhoff Award Dist. Prof. Shlomo Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Assoc. Prof. Shamai (Shitz) Engineering Meytal Landau Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Asst. Prof. Yuval Filmus Faculty of Biology Engineering Faculty of Computer Science Asst. Prof. Yoav Shechtman EuroSys 2019 American Ceramic Society Faculty of Biomedical Jochen Liedke Young Robert B. Sosman Award Engineering Researcher Award Prof. Wayne Kaplan Faculty of Materials Science Assoc. Prof. Dan Tsafrir ERC Consolidator Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Prof. Shulamit Levenberg Faculty of Biomedical American Chemical European Commission Engineering Society (ACS Axial) Innovation Award Assoc. Prof. Kinneret Keren Advances in Measurement Prof. Hossam Haick Faculty of Physics Science Award Wolfson Faculty of Assoc. Prof. Oren Cohen Assoc. Prof. Ester Segal Chemical Engineering Faculty of Physics Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering * Select list PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2019

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ISRAELI AWARDS ERC Advanced Grant NATO Science AND HONORS Israel Chemical Partnership Prize Engineering Association Prof. Amit Meller SPS Prize in CBRN Defense Faculty of Biomedical Entrepreneurship and Engineering Assoc. Prof. Oded Lewinson Innovation Prize Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Prof. Ashraf Brik Blavatnik Award for Young Prof. Havazelet Bianco-Peled Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Scientists in Israel Wolfson Faculty of Johnson & Johnson Assoc. Prof. Moran Bercovici Chemical Engineering ERC Synergy Grant Women in STEM2D Faculty of Mechanical Scholars Award Prof. Yoav Schechner Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award Viterbi Faculty of Asst. Prof. Naama Prof. Emer. Avinoam Nir Electrical Engineering Geva-Zatorsky Council for Higher Wolfson Faculty of Rappaport Faculty Education Chemical Engineering of Medicine Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Alon Fellowships Israel Heart Society Nokia Asst. Prof. Ittay Eyal (2018) Honorary Fellow Fellow Bell Labs Prize Viterbi Faculty of Prof. Emer. Basil Lewis Prof. Igal Sason Dist. Prof. Shlomo Electrical Engineering Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Viterbi Faculty of Shamai (Shitz) Asst. Prof. Ori Rottenstreich Electrical Engineering Viterbi Faculty of Technion Computer Electrical Engineering Engineering Center Israel Planners Association IEEE Signal 2018 Notable Processing Society Asst. Prof. Aviv Tamar Planner Award Best Paper Award Republic of France Viterbi Faculty of Ordre des Palmes Electrical Engineering Prof. Emer. Amnon Frenkel Dist. Prof. Shlomo Académiques Faculty of Architecture Shamai (Shitz) Asst. Prof. Yehonadav and Town Planning Viterbi Faculty of Prof. Daniel Rittel Bekenstein Electrical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Faculty of Materials Science Engineering and Engineering Israel Vacuum Society IEEE Signal IVS Research Award Maof Fellowship Processing Society Schmidt Science Fellows Prof. Yair Ein-Eli Claude Shannon-Harry (2019) Asst. Prof. Fadi Kizel (2018) Faculty of Materials Science Nyquist Technical Faculty of Civil and and Engineering Grisha Spektor Achievement Award Environmental Engineering Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Prof. Michael Elad Engineering Asst. Prof. Shady Farah Municipality of Haifa Faculty of Computer Science Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Citizen of Merit Award Engineering Society for Industrial and Dist. Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig International Engineering and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Asst. Prof. Firas Mawase Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Technology Institute (IETI) Faculty of Biomedical Fellows Prof. Emer. Amos Etzioni Fellow Engineering Prof. Michael Elad (2018) Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Prof. Igor Verner Faculty of Computer Science Prof. Emer. Elias Toubi Faculty of Education Rappaport Faculty in Science and Technology Prof. Ron Kimmel (2019) Faculty of Computer Science of Medicine AWARDS & HONORS 2018/2019*

TECHNION Society of Electrical and Wolf Foundation AWARDS Raymond and Miriam Klein Electronics Engineers 2019 Krill Prize Research Prize in Israel (SEEEI) for Excellence in AND HONORS Asst. Prof. Galia Maayan Honorary Fellow Scientific Research Schulich Faculty Prof. Emer. Avraham Shitzer Asst. Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky of Chemistry Faculty of Mechanical Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering Engineering Cooper Award for Hilda and Hershel Rich Asst. Prof. Yaron Fuchs Excellence in Research Israel Physical Society (IPS) Technion Innovation Awards Faculty of Biology Prof. Oleg Gendelman Assoc. Prof. Aharon Faculty of Mechanical Honorary Fellow Blank and Itai Katz Yad Hanadiv Engineering Prof. Emer. Joshua Zak Schulich Faculty (Rothschild Foundation) Faculty of Physics Asst. Prof. Shoham Sabach of Chemistry Michael Bruno Davidson Faculty of Industrial Memorial Award Assoc. Prof. Yael Yaniv Jacob Bekenstein Prize Engineering and Management Prof. Hossam Haick Faculty of Biomedical in Theoretical Physics Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof. Shlomo Razamat Engineering Alexander Goldberg Dr. Hen Dotan, Faculty of Physics Research Prize Prof. Gideon Grader, Asst. Prof. Alex Hayat Avigail Landman, Assoc. Israel Young Academy Viterbi Faculty of Prof. Avner Rothschild, Elected Member Electrical Engineering and Dr. Gennady Shter Faculties of Chemical Assoc. Prof. Asya Rolls Engineering and Materials Rappaport Faculty Uzi and Michal Halevy Science and Engineering of Medicine Innovative Applied Engineering Award Assoc. Prof. Sefi Givli and Assoc. Prof. Hagai Perets and Research Grants Dr. Itamar Benichou Faculty of Physics Asst. Prof. Beni Cukurel Faculty of Mechanical Prof. Ashraf Brik Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Schulich Faculty Engineering of Chemistry Assoc. Prof. Moran Bercovici, Asst. Prof. Vadim Indelman Tal Zeidman Kalman, Faculty of Aerospace Nadya Ostromohov, and Engineering Tally Rosenfeld Faculty of Mechanical Assoc. Prof. Alejandro Sosnik Engineering Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering Assoc. Prof. Carmel Rotschild Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

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Norman Seiden Moshe Yanai Awards Career Advancement Chairs André Deloro Career Prize for Academic for Excellence in Education Advancement Chair Excellence Nancy and Stephen Grand in Engineering Assoc. Prof. Daniel Orenstein Career Development Chair Prof. Levi Schächter Faculty of Architecture Asst. Prof. Shay Stern Viterbi Faculty of and Town Planning Asst. Prof. Shimrit Shtern Faculty of Biology Electrical Engineering Davidson Faculty of Industrial Assoc. Prof. Adi Salzberg Engineering and Management Chaya Career Rappaport Faculty Development Chair of Medicine Diane Sherman Prize Irwin and Bethea Green Asst. Prof. Fady Kizel Assoc. Prof. Keren and Detroit Chapter Career for Medical Innovations Faculty of Civil and Censor-Hillel Development Chair for a Better World Environmental Engineering Faculty of Computer Science Assoc. Prof. Alejandro Sosnik Asst. Prof. Yehonadav Faculty of Materials Science Assoc. Prof. Bekenstein and Engineering Daniella Raveh Faculty of Materials Science Leaders in Science Faculty of Aerospace and Engineering and Technology Engineering Jack Klein Career Horev Fellows Daniel Shiran Assoc. Prof. Avi Schroeder Advancement Chair Memorial Prize Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Asst. Prof. Nir Lazarovich in Cancer Research Assoc. Prof. Avi Schroeder Engineering Faculty of Mathematics Asst. Prof. Yosef Shamay Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Asst. Prof. Amit Zeisel Faculty Prize Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Biotechnology Andrew and Erna Viterbi Engineering and Food Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering Women’s Division Career Henry Taub Prize for Taub Fellows Advancement Chair Academic Excellence Asst. Prof. Ori Rottenstreich Honorable Mentions Assoc. Prof. Sabrina Spatari Assoc. Prof. Tal Carmon Faculty of Computer Science Assoc. Prof. Roee Amit Faculty of Civil and Faculty of Mechanical Faculty of Biotechnology Environmental Engineering Asst. Prof. Inbal Engineering and Food Engineering Talgam-Cohen Assoc. Prof. Keren Assoc. Prof. Yael Yaniv Northern California Career Faculty of Computer Science Censor-Hillel Faculty of Biomedical Development Chair Faculty of Computer Science Engineering Asst. Prof. Eilam Yalon Prof. Yuval Ishai Asst. Prof. Roi Reichart Viterbi Faculty of Faculty of Computer Science Davidson Faculty of Industrial Electrical Engineering Prof. Eugen Rabkin Engineering and Management Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering TECHNION SOCIETIES

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