Ido Kaminer is a theoretical and experimental physicist at the Technion specializing in quantum optics, free-electron physics, and attosecond science. He leads the AdQuanta Lab, pioneering ultrafast experiments that combine femtosecond lasers with electron microscopy. Kaminer’s discoveries include new quantum effects in relativistic radiation and the foundations of free-electron quantum optics. Ido is also a pioneer in experimental mathematics, where he founded the Ramanujan Machine initiative. This initiative contributed to the rise of the field AI for science and its penetration into the domain of mathematics. Through their development of specialized algorithms, Ido’s team discovered thousands of new formulas for mathematical constants, now surpassing the combined number of such formulas found over hundreds of years. Ido is a member of the Israeli Young Academy, and has won multiple awards and grants, including two ERC Grants, the Moore foundation grant, and the 2022 Schmidt Science Polymath Award. Ido is the laureate of the 2021 Krill Prize, the 2021 Blavatnik Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering in Israel, and the 2022 Adolph Lomb Medal, the top international award for a young scientist (age 35 or younger) in the field of optics. He was recently selected for the 2023 Lem European Research Prize and for the 2024 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award.
Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech is an entrepreneur specializing in the integration of Generative AI within the realms of social impact and cross-sector collaborations in an ethical and responsible manner.
Shiran has led various projects aimed at promoting and raising awareness of social issues such as violence against women, education, democracy, and Holocaust commemoration, in collaboration with Meta, Microsoft, March of the Living, and more. Since October 7th, she has also been actively promoting the use of GenAI to combat hate, ignorance, and antisemitism. Some of her projects have won international awards and been presented at esteemed institutions such as the UN, NATO, and UN Women.
Today, she is the founder of Generative AI for Good and collaborates with tech companies, corporations, NGOs, and international organizations.
Shiran is a council member at the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue.
Shiran holds an EMBA from the esteemed Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
In an era when AI is reshaping society, Shiran is committed to harnessing the power of technology to effect positive social change.
Shie Mannor is the Edwards Chair in Engineering at the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion, the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Jether Energy Research and a Distinguished Scientist at Nvidia. Shie has published over 80 journal papers and over 250 conference papers and his papers were cited over 33K times with an H-index of 91. Shie’s research interests include machine learning and data science with an emphasis on reinforcement learning, planning and control, and analysis and control of large-scale systems.
Shai Rosenberg is a physician-scientist at Hadassah Medical Center and a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University. A graduate of the Technion Excellence Program, where he studied medicine alongside an intensive curriculum in mathematics and sciences, he completed both his MD (Cum Laude) and PhD in statistical genetics, receiving the Wolf Foundation Prize for PhD students. He completed his neurology residency at Hadassah with honors and pursued postdoctoral research in computational biology at the Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) in Paris as part of a selective international program. Today, Shai leads a research laboratory focused on applying artificial intelligence to cancer genomics and precision oncology. As Head of AI in Oncology at Hadassah, he bridges clinical care with algorithmic innovation, supported by research grants from the Israel Science Foundation (including the Mavri Grant) and the EU. He also directs the Sagol Program for outstanding students pursuing a combined MD and BSc in computer science - currently comprising 80 active and former trainees. He is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of GenoCure.AI, a translational startup leveraging academic research to advance AI-driven tools for personalized cancer treatment.
Nadav Cohen is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, and CTO, President & Co-Founder at Imubit. His academic research centers on the foundations of deep learning, while at Imubit he leads development of deep reinforcement learning systems controlling the largest industrial manufacturing plants in the world. Nadav earned a BSc in Electrical Engineering and BSc in Mathematics (both summa cum laude) at the Technion Excellence Program. He obtained his PhD (summa cum laude) at the Hebrew University, and was a postdoc at Princeton. For his contributions to AI, Nadav won a number of awards, including the ERC Starting Grant, the Google Research Scholar Award, the Google Doctoral Fellowship in Machine Learning, the Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Zuckerman Postdoctoral Fellowship.