News
May 2018
The first Zimin Institute project cycle was completed and winners were announced during the official Zimin Institute Inauguration ceremony
Five projects were selected out of 29 submitted proposals – all of them proposed research in one of the topics that the International Advisory Board indicated:
1. Artificial Intelligence:
a) Deep learning.
b) Medicine and life sciences applications.
2. Advanced sensors
The winning projects are:
- Innovative Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Heart Medical Procedures: Optimal Intervention Time for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement – Prof. Rami Haj-Ali, School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Development of a multimodal Brain-Computer Interface based on Artificial Intelligence for rehabilitation of people with motor disorders – Prof. Jason Friedman, Physical Therapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Individualized closed-loop sensorized virtual reality for behavioral change – Prof. Yael Hanein, Electrical Engineering and Dr. Tom Schonberg, Life Sciences
- Identification of intraperitoneal free cancer cell during surgical procedure for disease management: a multidisciplinary engineering solution using a deep learning and real-time-repaid sequencing technology – Prof. Noam Shomron, Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- 3D printing of cardiac patches with integrated sensors and actuators to regenerate the infarcted heart – Prof. Tal Dvir, Faculty of Life Sciences
May 2018
- Inauguration Ceremony of the Zimin Institute for Engineering Solutions Advancing Better Lives in Tel Aviv University
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vbSnSeKBAU8
November 2017
- Zimin Institute for Novel Engineering Solutions Inaugurated - Will harness Tel Aviv University ingenuity toward enhancing quality of life
https://english.tau.ac.il/vision/zimin_institute_inauguration
