Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron
Email: messer@eng.tau.ac.il
Site: Hagit Messer
Research Interests: Detection and parameter estimation theory; non-Gaussian detection and parameter estimation using statistical signal and array processing for underwater acoustics, bio- medical engineering and communication systems.
Biography: HAGIT MESSER-YARON received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel, and after a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, she joined the faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University in 1986, where she is The Kranzberg Chair Professor in Signal Processing at the school of Electrical Engineering. On 2000-3 she has been on leave from TAU, serving as the Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Science. After returning to TAU she was the head of the Porter school of environmental studies (2004-6), and the Vice President for Research and Development (2006-8). Then, she has been the President of the Open University (2008-13), and from Oct. 2013 till January 2016 she has served as the Vice Chair of the Council of Higher Education, Israel. On 2016 she has also become a co-founder of ClimaCell. In 2023, Messer received the IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for her contributions to sensing the environment using wireless communication networks.
Prof. Pinhas Alpert
email: pinhas@post.tau.ac.il
Site: Pinhas Alpert
Research Interests: Atmospheric dynamics, climate, numerical methods, limited area modeling, aerosol dynamics and climate change.
Biography: Pinhas Alpert received the Ph.D. degree in meteorology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1980. He joined the Department of Geosciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1982, after a Postdoctorate at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. He is currently the Mikhael M. Nebenzahl and Amalia Grossberg Chair Professor of Geodynamics. He served as the Head of the Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel-Aviv University, during 2008–2013, following 3 years as Head of the Department of Geosciences at Tel Aviv University.
Prof. Alpert is the developer of a novel Factor Separation Method in numerical simulations which is described in the following 2011 Book: P. Alpert and T. Sholokhman, “Factor Separation in the Atmosphere, Applications and Future Prospects”, Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521191739).
Prof. Alpert established and heads the Israel Space Agency
Middle East Interactive Data Archive (ISA-MEIDA). Prof. Alpert served as
co-director of the GLOWA-Jordan River BMBF/MOS project to study the water
vulnerability in the E. Mediterranean. He is the 2018 recipient of the EGUBjerknes medal.
Dr. Jonatan Ostrometzky
Email: jonatano@tauex.tau.ac.il
Site: Jonatan Ostrometzky
Research Interests: Statistical signal processing and estimation theory, parameter estimation from partial data, environmental monitoring using commercial microwave communication networks, resilience of wireless networks and smart power grids to natural and man-made based vulnerabilities.
Biography: Jonatan Ostrometzky received his B.Sc. degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in 2009. He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (through the Accelerated Master Program), and his Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He continued as a postdoctoral fellow at Tel-Aviv University until March 2018. Between March 2018 and 2020, he was a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, under the supervision of Prof. Gil Zussman. Currently, Jonatan is a faculty member in the Faculty of Engineering, at Tel-Aviv University.