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American Technion Society – New England Presents Boston Business Council Virtual Breakfast Meeting With Technion alumnus Assaf Glazer Ph.D. ’13 Relive this interactive discussion with alumnus and entrepreneur Assaf Glazer Ph.D. ’13. Dr. Glazer, co-Founder and Chairman of Nanit, discusses taking research from vision to commercialization. This event is co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel to New England. Click on the image above to experience this virtual event.
Nanosynex, an innovative medtech startup that traces its beginnings to Technion Professor Shulamit Levenberg’s lab, is now on the frontlines in Israel tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The three year old-company, co-founded by alumnae Michelle Heymann MBA ’16 and Diane Abensur Bessin MBA ’16, is partnering with Israeli emergency medical services organization United Hatzalah to roll out COVID-19 rapid diagnostic kits. The launch is part of a pilot initiative to ramp up mass testing efforts. Even though Israel is the most vaccinated country on Earth, having doled out coronavirus vaccines to more than half its population (as of early February), COVID-19…
Technion researchers are accustomed to receiving awards for complex science breakthroughs conducted in their labs. Now they can claim a little piece of Hollywood. Technion alumni have received an Oscar and an Emmy — announced recently within the span of 10 days. Global video software company Beamr, whose technological leaders are graduates of the Technion’s Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, won a 2021 Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award for Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization. “It’s amazing,” said Technion alumna Tamar Shoham M.Sc. ’09. “I often encounter glossy looks when I say I’m an engineer…
Alumnus Launches UV Light Disinfectant Technion alum Eran Ben-Shmuel ’05 has come out with a product he hopes will literally be “the light at the end of the tunnel of the COVID-19 era.” He and his company, Juganu, have launched an indoor lighting system, which uses a mix of ultraviolet light that reportedly inactivates up to 99.9% of viruses and bacteria, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus that leads to COVID-19. The system, J. Protect, comes at a time when the world is trying to figure out how to safely reopen indoor spaces, in winter, when safer, outdoor options are unavailable. Ben-Shmuel…
Lead Researcher for New Space Missions and a Candidate for the Astronaut Selection Program The Netflix space drama Away follows the perils of a fictional expedition to Mars while gradually revealing the personal odysseys of its crew members. Listen to alumnus Eliad Peretz ’13 explore the challenges that instilled him with the right stuff to launch […]
How He Got Here: A Kibbutznik Alum’s Path From Startup to Microsoft A few years ago, Technion alumnus Omer Schneider ’05 and his partners pitched their young cybersecurity business to one of the wealthiest tech investors in Israel. “You guys are crazy,” the investor said. “How can an Israeli from a kibbutz who rides on camels sell cybersecurity to American utilities?” “Of course I don’t ride camels,” Mr. Schneider recalled, laughing. “My naïve answer to him was: ‘Because we can. They have a gap and we will do that.’” Fast forward to June 2020. Mr. Schneider sold CyberX, the company…
Rafi Yoeli with his Cormorant, credit Rafi Yoeli. After selling his first aviation company, Rafi Yoeli had time to ponder his next move. He’d already served in the Israeli Air Force, earned two Technion graduate degrees as well as a pilot’s license, and had worked at Boeing and Israel Aircraft Industries, where he was one of the chief designers of the Lavi Fighter Jet. What did he land on? The flying car. Growing up in the 1960s, Yoeli was enamored with a rudimentary flying machine called Airgeep. But the Vietnam War was in full swing and funding that could have…
Since its first class in 1924, the Technion has graduated over 111,000 alumni. Today, more than 70% are employed in the high-tech sectors that drive Israel’s economic growth, helping to build the country’s reputation as the Startup Nation. These brilliant alumni are working for multinational giants, shattering glass ceilings, moving stock markets, and creating technologies that benefit mankind.
No one really knows what the new normal post-pandemic will look like. But Israeli startup Sonarax is sure of one thing: many people will be wary of touching elevator buttons, ATM touchpads, and intercoms for a while to come. Employing technology developed by Roni Papo ’07, Sonarax is ready for the new touchless reality. The company is rolling out technology that uses soundwaves to transfer data between any two devices, provided each is equipped with a speaker and microphone. Users hold their phone near the access pad of an office building, for example, activate the app and the audio signals…
Ifat Rubin-Bejerano holds a Ph.D. and a B.Sc. magna cum laude from the Technion and today serves as Director of Translational Research Programs at Harvard Medical School. She is also a member of the Massachusetts Consortium for Pathogen Readiness that is helping find and fund innovative solutions in the fight against COVID-19. Can you share a bit about your background? I was born and raised in Hod HaSharon, Israel. My father was an engineer, my mother was a teacher and I grew up with three sisters. Though Hod HaSharon is now very urbanized, when I was growing up it was…
Technion Webinar If the coronavirus pandemic has underscored one message, it’s that the world is one big global village. We can no longer work in our own silos when stock market fluctuations, climate change, and pandemics affect us all. In this special webinar, Technion alumnus Dr. Eyal Zimlichman addresses this interconnectedness and Israel’s efforts in […]
Zeekit uses augmented reality to provide an interactive online shopping experience. With its virtual fitting room, the technology allows shoppers to see how an item will look on different body types. Zeekit’s Co-founder and CEO is Technion alumna Yael Vizel. She graduated from the Technion in 2010 with honors, earning numerous awards. Yael was a […]