research

My research focues on studying the ways by which visual inputs are processed in the brain to create a conscious perception. The studies are conducted with human patients undergoing brain surgery to enable the research of the neural coding underlying our attention. In addition, I conduct eye-tracking studies with subjects with neurological disorders (autism, face blindness, amygdala lesion, agenessis of the corpus calosum, etc) to study mechanisms underlying emotions.
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academic

2009 - Postdoctoral research fellow, Neuroscience, Caltech; Department of Neurosurgery,UCLA advisors: professors Christof Koch and Itzhak Fried
2005 - 2009 Ph.D, Neuroscience, Caltech advisor: professor Christof Koch
2001 M.A., Philosophy of Science, Tel-Aviv University advisor: professor, Major General, Knesset member, Isaac Ben-Israel
1998 - 2000 B.Sc., Physics, Tel-Aviv University  

professional experience

2006 - 2009 Scientific consultant, AFI
2008 Lead prototype designer, Pharmaco-Kinesis
2003 - 2005 Senior security consultant, iMPERVA
2002 - 2003 Customer trainer, Product architect, TTI Telecom
2000 - 2002 R&D trainer, Check Point
2000 Inventor, S.I.T
1998 - 2000 Software developer, Team leader , Log-On
   
1995 - 1998 Intelligence corps, Israeli Defense Forces

 

languages

English, Hebrew, French
Basic knowledge of Chinese, Czech

honors and awards

2009 Good Clinical Practice (GCP), UCLA
2005 Writing competition in memory of Ofer Lider, Weizmann Institute of Science
2004 Awarded full-tuition scholarship for the year 2005, Tel-Aviv University
2003 President Scholarship for Excellent Ph.D. students. 4 Years scholarship, Bar-Ilan University
2001 Master's thesis, magna cum laude, Tel-Aviv University

 

publications

Number of publications: 11 (including 2 theses, excluding submitted papers)
Number of citations: 24 (source: Google Scholar, June 2009); n = 11, mean = 2.18, std = 4.67
H factor: 2
Impact factor: 3.16 (average, based on 4 journals with known impact factor); std = 3.72

Erdös number: 3 (via Harel, McEliece, Erdös)

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reviewer

Vision Research, Journal of Vision, European Association for Computer Graphics, Journal of Computer Science and Technology


memberships

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Society of Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience Society

computer skills

Matlab, C, C++, VB, Python, Perl, PHP, ASP, Database administration, Unix system administration, Linux, networking; Photoshop, Maya, Flash, Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator, and others; Application penetration testing, Security code review, analysis, and auditing.

funding

Mathers foundation, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) , Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Dana Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)


teaching/assistant

2006 - 2008 Introduction to Neural Computation, Caltech
2008 - 2009 Brains, Minds, and Society, Caltech
2006 The Neural Basis of Consciousness, Caltech
2005 Neural Computation, Caltech
2001 Internet Security, Tel-Aviv University
2000 Theoretical Methods in Physics, Tel-Aviv University

 

mentoring

Sami Zerrade (Caltech), Paxon Frady (UCSD), Alex Huth (Berkeley), Simon Kornblith (Caltech), Nikhil Thiruvengadam (Carnegie-Melon), Michael Mackay (Cambridge)

 

collaborators

Alex Huth (Berkeley)
Asya Rolls (Stanford)
Avshalom C. Elitzur (Bar-Ilan University)
Brad Duchaine (Harvard, University College London)
Dan Cleary (University of Portland)
Doris Tsao (Caltech)
Elina Birmingham (Caltech)
Florian Mormann (University of Bonn)
Jonathan Harel (Caltech)
Milica Milosavljevic (Caltech)
Paxon Frady (UCSD)
Ralph Adolphs (Caltech, University of Iowa)
Rob Peters (USC)
Sasha Kraskov (University College London)
Wolfgang Einhaeuser (University of Marburg)