Christoph Standke, a PhD student at RWTH Aachen University and a long-standing collaborator of the lab, spent several days with us this week. During his stay he gave a talk titled "An Introduction to Local Explanations".
Our extended lab meeting was a great success! It was wonderful to see everyone, hear the excellent presentations, and enjoy the lively lunch + demo session.
The following demo was presented at SIGMOD 24: Markos Markakis, An Bo Chen, Brit Youngmann, Trinity Gao, Ziyu Zhang, Rana Shahout, Peter Baile Chen, Chunwei Liu, Ibrahim Sabek, Michael Cafarella: Sawmill: From Logs to…
Brit Youngmann co-chaired the First Workshop on Governance, Understanding, and Integration of Data for Effective and Responsible AI (GUIDE-AI) alongside Abolfazl Asudeh, Sainyam Galhorta, Amir Gilad, and Babak Salimi.…
Finally, we managed to hold a laboratory meeting, in which the soldiers among us also participated. There were interesting lectures, delicious refreshments, and we are waiting for the next meeting 🙂
Oren Mishali, our Lab Engineer, gave a lecture in the 3rd Online Conference for Software and Data. Oren talked about "Building a Semantic Search Model for Internet Rabbinic Q&A".
Jonas Israel from TU-Berlin visited in the Technion. Jonas has been a collaborator of Benny and Aviram during the past two years. We seized the opportunity to dine out at a restaurant 🙂
A tool developed in the lab as part of the “Jewish Bookshelf Project” was selected as one of the “Honorable Mentions” in the Sefaria 2021 contest. From the contest’s site: “An innovative tool that helps users search for…
This week, our lab engineer Oren Mishali, together with Moshe Schor (Technion) and Ophir Münz-Manor (Open University of Israel), have presented (virtually) the paper below in the 5th Workshop on Visualization for the…
The CS Department celebrated (virtually) the graduation of 315 students. Benny Kimelfeled, our head lab and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies, conducted the event together with actor and comedian Idan Alterman.
The paper was accepted for publication in Discrete Applied Mathematics, in a special issue for WEPA 2018 (Workshop on Enumeration Problems and Applications).
The GIF (German-Israeli Foundation) board of governors has awarded a grant to the project entitled “Splitting Information Extraction: Correctness and Complexity”, in collaboration with Prof. Wim Martens.
This week we have a visitor from University of Bayreuth: Johannes Doleschal. Johannes is a PhD student and he gave a talk about his doctorate research. Welcome to the Technion!
A recent Haaretz post reported on Kira Radinsky and Galia Nordon's research on the relatedness between medicines for blood pressure and the Parkinson disease. A local copy is available here.
We are happy to announce that our PhD student Nofar Carmeli has won, together with Markus Kröll, the PODS 2019 Best Student Paper Award. Well done Nofar and Markus!
Nofar Carmeli has won the Google PhD Fellowships for 2019. These awards have been presented to exemplary PhD students in computer science and related disciplines to acknowledge their contributions to their areas of…
Congratulations to Elad Kravi who gave his PhD seminar this week! Elad’s work, titled “Understanding the Context of Microactions on the Web”, was advised by Prof. Beny Kimelfeld and Prof. Yaron Kanza.
A new server has joined the lab computing infrastructure. The server, called Gaon7, has 500GB of RAM, and 64 CPU threads of the new Intel Scalable architecture (Xeon Gold). Happy processing!
The German Research Foundation DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has awarded a DIP grant to the project entitled “Quantitative Reasoning about Database Queries”, in collaboration with Prof. Martin Grohe.
Benny Kimelfeld and Nofar Carmeli attended the WEPA2018 workshop on Enumeration Problems & Applications. This year, the workshop took place in Pisa, Italy.
On April’18 we had a lab trip at the Carmel mountains. We visited the “finger cave”, then had a nice walk, and eventually enjoyed an authentic Druze meal.
