I am interested in learning and optimization questions related to systems within the Natural Sciences. Specifically, my fields of interest encompass Statistical Learning in Theory and in Practice, Experimental Optimization, Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics, Scientific Informatics, Natural Computing, Computational Intelligence in Physical Sciences, Quantum Control and Quantum Machine Learning.

Currently:
Head, Computer Science Department, Tel-Hai College.
Principal Investigator, Computational Intelligence Group, Migal-The Galilee Research Institute.

Previously:

• 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: