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Plenary Speakers
Mr. Dror Goldenberg
Senior Vice President of Network Software Architecture at NVIDIA
Nvidia Israel-1 AI Factory Journey
Dr. Shimrit Maman
Senior Scientist & Director Earth and Planetary Image Facility (EPIF)
Space-Based Intelligence
Ori Tadmor
VP Operations, KLA- President, KLA Israel
Behind the AI Revolution: From Silicon to Intelligence
Dr. Anuradha Agarwal
Principal Research Scientist, MIT Microphotonics Center and Materials Research Laboratory
AI-Powered Data Centers: Building a Sustainable Future by Scaling the Package
Prof. Val Zwiller
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Quantum and Nano Physics
Devices for generation and detection of light at the single photon level
Tutorial Speakers
Prof. Sam Palermo
Texas A&M
Transceiver Architectures for Future System Interconnect Demands
Prof. Harald Giessen
University of Stuttgart
3D printed complex microoptics: Fundamentals and first benchmark applications
Prof. Yair Weiss
Hebrew University
The return of engineering in Computer Vision
Prof. Ebrahim Karimi
Chapman University
Structured Photons for High-Dimensional Quantum Information Processing
Prof. Eby Friedman
University of Rochester
VLSI Complexity Superconductive Quantum Integrated Circuits
Dr. Tomer Simon
Microsoft-Israel Chief Scientist
AI and the Future of Science
Invited Speakers
Prof. Haim Permuter
Ben Gurion University
Neural Network Approach
for Polar Codes Decoding
Prof. Anelia Somekh-Baruch
Bar-Ilan University
Impossibility Results in Channel Coding via Auxiliary Channels and Genie-Aided Techniques
Prof. Lilach Hadany
Tel Aviv University
Plant-emitted sounds: detection, interpretation and ecological implications
Prof. Roee Diamant
University of Haifa
Detection, source separation, and contextual inference of sperm whales’ vocalizations
Dr. Dan Kuchta
Nvidia
Co-Packaged Optical Transceivers for HPC, Data Centers and AI Applications
Dr. Eugene Frumker
Ben Gurion University
Exploring Laser-Induced Strong-Field Ionization Phenomena: Toward Dynamic 4D Imaging and Beyond
Dr. Hanan Sheinfux-Herzig
Bar-Ilan University
Extreme confinement with hyperbolic cavities – a new platform for quantum light-matter interactions
Dr. Lior
Michaeli
Tel-Aviv University
Optomechanics Beyond the Cavity: Forces, Nonlinearity, and Distributed Dynamics
Ofer Kfir
Tel-Aviv University
Elastic electron-photon coupling: towards
sub-Poisson free-electron states
Dr. Hagai
Diamandi
Hebrew University
Robust Ground-State Control of High-Frequency Bulk Acoustic Phonons
Dr. Roy Zektzer
Bar-Ilan University
Integrated Photonics and Atomic Vapors: Engineering Strong Light–Matter Interactions at the Single-Photon Level
Prof. Yuval
Shavit
Tel-Aviv University
Using AI for detection of Routing Deflection Attacks
Dr. Ariel Bruner
Israel Center for Advanced Photonics (ICAP)
Recent Advances in Specialty Fibers: From Research to Optoelectronic Applications
Odi Dahan
Husqvarna Tel Aviv Innovation Lab
Perception Challenges for Autonomous Robots in Unstructured Green Spaces
Prof. Sharon Gannot
Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University
Deep Learning Meets Beamforming: Recent Advances in Multi-Microphone Spatial Filtering
Prof. Tal Carmon
Tel-Aviv University
Photonic Origami for On-chip 3D Micro-Optics
Dr. Yakov Rozin
Tower Semiconductors
Photonics Technologies in CMOS Foundries
Dr. Michal Vadai
Elbit Systems
Defense Photonics: When ‘Light’ is the Spec and the Technology
Dr. Haggai Maron
Technion
Geometric Deep Learning for Neural Artifacts: Symmetry-Aware Learning across Trained Model Weights, Internal Representations, and Gradients
Prof. Amos Danielli
Bar Ilan University
Rapid and Highly Sensitive Detection of pathogens in Biological Fluids
Prof. Netanel Lindner
CTO at Qedma Quantum Computing
Quantum Advantage: Hype, Progress, and How Far We Still Have to Go
Dr. Ran Fischer
Rafael
Towards a high-sensitivity mobile gravity-gradiometer
Prof. Ofir
Lindbaum
Bar-Ilan University
Efficient Training, Fast Inference: Reducing Memory Requirements and Inference Time of Foundation Models
Prof. Amir Rosenthal
Technion
The silicon photonics acoustic detector (SPADE): a versatile platform for biomedical imaging and sensing
Prof. Em. Shmuel (Sam)
Ben-Yaakov
Ben-Gurion University
