I am interested in learning and optimization questions related to systems within the Natural Sciences. Specifically, my fields of interest encompass Statistical Learning within Optimization and Deep Learning in Practice, Self-Supervised Learning, Algorithmically-Guided Experimentation, Combinatorial Optimization and Benchmarking (White/Gray/Black-Box), Quantum Optimization and Quantum Machine Learning.

Currently:
Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Principal Investigator, Computational Intelligence Group, Migal-The Galilee Research Institute.

Previously:

• Head, Computer Science Department, Tel-Hai College.
• Senior Lecturer, Computer Science Department, Tel-Hai College.
• Research Scientist, IBM-Research.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University. Host: Hersch Rabitz.
• MSc and PhD in Computer Science, Leiden University. Advisors: Thomas Bäck and Marc Vrakking.
• BSc in Physics and Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Teaching:

• The C++ Programming Language (121503; Fall)
• Introduction to Computational Intelligence (199811; Fall)
• Advanced Topics in Object-Oriented Programming (199414; Spring)
• Workshop on Operations Research and Optimization Methods (199833; Spring)

Algorithmically-Guided Scientific Discoveries (Migal's Talk, 2021):



Series of lectures on Evolutionary Computation (in Hebrew; taught in 199811 Fall 17-18):



Recent meetings: