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Resume

Education & Appointments:

2019 -

Assistant professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

2018 -

Assistant professor at the Microbiology & Molecular Genetics department, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine. 

2012-2018

Postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University (jointly advised by Eric Lander and Ramnik Xavier). 

2008-2012

Graduate student at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University;

Visiting student at MIT.

2008-2012

PhD in computer science and computational biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (jointly advised by Nir Friedman and Aviv Regev). 

2005-2007

MSc in computer science and computational biology (magna cum laude), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (advised by Nir Friedman). 

2002-2005

BSc in computer science and computational biology (magna cum laude), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Grants:

2020

Rothschild Foundation - FightCorona grant 

2020

 Israel Science Foundation - Personal grant 

2019

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 Israel Science Foundation – Broad Institute collaborative grant

2018

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Azrieli Faculty Fellowship

2018

Israel Science Foundation grant

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2017

K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award (NIH/NIDDK)

 
 

Awards:

2016

 Charles A. King Trust Foundation postdoctoral fellowship

2013

 The Klarman Family and Israeli Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

2012

 Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship

2012

Dan David Scholarship

 

2011

Lawrence H. Summers Fellowship

2010

Google European Doctoral Fellowship (declined)

2010

 Clore Doctoral Scholarship

2019

Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship recipients

Conference organization:

Since 2019

CSHL Microbiome meeting organizer

Teaching:

Since 2020

Workshop in Processing and Visualizing Biological Data (Medical faculty graduate program)

Since 2019

Workshop in Computational Bioskills (Computer science undergraduate program)

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