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Cloud computing offer by Microsoft

July 20, 2020 by The Data Science and AI Institute

Application Development Project for a Study in the Department of Psychology

August 17, 2020July 16, 2020 by The Data Science and AI Institute

The Dynamic Processes of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy Lab (https://dplab-biu.wixsite.com/dplab) is looking for a software programmer for a short-term project. The lab is housed in the Department of Psychology at Bar Ilan University and directed by Dr. Yogev Kivity (https://psychology.biu.ac.il/en/node/1684).

The lab is currently designing a study that will make use of Garmin Vivosmart 4 wearable device (https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/605739) to record participants’ continuous physiological arousal (heart rate) as part of a study of emotion regulation in daily life. We would like to develop an application using Garmin’s Application Programming Interface (API: https://developer.garmin.com/health-api/overview/) to extract raw data from the lab’s devices that are not accessible using the device’s existing application. The project will include getting familiar with the device and the API, understanding the lab’s needs (through interaction with the study principle investigator), creating a project description, writing the application along with appropriate documentation, training lab personnel on its use and conducting rudimentary quality assurance checks.
The project is especially suitable for advanced Computer Science or Engineering students. Students will be paid on an hourly basis at a pre-agreed rate. For inquiries and application please contact Dr. Yogev Kivity (yogev.kivity@biu.ac.il) and include your CV and a short description of your interests and relevant experience.

ICML Best Paper Award

July 14, 2020 by The Data Science and AI Institute

Big congratulations to Gal Chechik and Ethan Fetaya for winning the ICML best paper award!

ICML is the top International Conference on Machine Learning – this year 4990 papers were submitted, 1088 were accepted of which 2 were chosen for best paper!

The first author of the work was Haggai Maron from NVIDIA research center in Israel. Work was done in collaboration with Dr. Or Litani from Stanford.

“On Learning Sets of Symmetric Elements” is available in following link –

https://proceedings.icml.cc/static/paper_files/icml/2020/1625-Paper.pdf

A workshop on the topic of Geometric Deep Learning will take place on Aug 2

iGDL 2020: Israeli Geometric Deep Learning Workshop

DSI 2020 Call for Research Corona Grants – List of Accepted Corona Grants

July 6, 2020 by The Data Science and AI Institute

Prof. Hanoch Senderowitz

Implementation and Application of a Deep-Docking platform for the Identification of Drug Compounds Targeting the main Cov-2 Proteins

NIS 21,000

Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern

Text mining and 3D molecular modelling to identify antiviral and anti-pneumonia drugs in order to fight COVID19 viral infection

NIS 15,000

Prof. Yoram Louzoun

Network and learning based estimates of epidemics spread in inhomogeneous populations

NIS 18,000

Dr. Simi Haber

Dr. Baruch Barzel

COVID-19. Viral spread on temporal social networks

NIS 20,000

Prof. Reuven Cohen

Dr. Simi Haber

Efficient Quarantine in Social Networks

NIS 24,000

SparkBeyond user test

June 15, 2020 by The Data Science and AI Institute

SparkBeyond is an Israeli startup changing the paradigm of how we do data science. Our ideation machine is the best colleague to collaborate with as you explore your data, discover the most effective features to engineer, and optimize your model.

As part of our efforts to improve the onboarding experience of new users (data scientists), we are performing a series of user tests on our system and educational resources. We would be very happy if you could help us with our effort by giving us feedback.
If you are a trained data scientist we invite you to spend 2 hours with our platform & earn $50

This will take about 2 hours of your time:

75-90 minutes of self-onboarding, using educational videos, and on-screen guidance.
30 mins of interview, in which we will discuss your experience with the system and the resources.

Few important things to note:

We are by no means testing your personal or professional abilities. Quite the opposite — we are testing and evaluating our own system, design, and resources.
This two-hour session can be done either remotely (online), or face-to-face in our Netanya office — whatever you prefer.

If you are interested, please c ontact us and we will take it from there 🙂

Thank you for your time,

The SparkBeyond Team

פרס הרקטור לסטודנטים מצטיינים לתואר שלישי לשנת תש”פ

June 9, 2020 by The Data Science and AI Institute

Congratulation to Mr. Ofir Shtegmann for winning biu rector phd-student excellence award for academic year 2019-2020.

Ofir’s work under the supervision of Prof. Oren Perez (Law) and Prof. Reuven Cohen (Math) applies network science and graph analysis in the law domain and constitutes a great example of collaboration of DSI members and the strong collaboration of the Data Science Institute with the Law Department.

Student Position for Research Project on Bots in Social Networks

December 31, 2020June 2, 2020 by The Data Science and AI Institute

Position closed!

Seeking a student with python/data-science skills for work on a funded bot project lead by Dr. Alon Sela.
50% flexible position. Hourly rate – 90 NIS (may be option for Milga). Work my result in academic publications.

~~For details please contact Dr. Alon Sela – alonse2012@gmail.com~~

Position closed!