




Our Team
Group Leader

Dr. Avi Karsenty
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Head of ALEO - Advanced Laboratory of Electro-Optics
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Former Head of the Physics/Electro-Optics Dept, Faculty of Engineering.
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Former Head of HaEytanim - Personal Empowerment Excellence Program
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JCT Micro-Nano Technology Education & Research Center
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Email: karsenty@jct.ac.il
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Office: +972-2-6751140.
Short Bio: Dr. Avi Karsenty received his PhD degree in Applied Physics/Material Science (Microelectronics/Electro-Optics) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003. His research focuses on nanoscale electro-optical coupled devices. He has over two decades of experience in the high-tech industry, sixteen years of which were spent in engineering and management positions at Intel. After returning to academia, he served as head of the department of Physics/Electro-Optics Engineering at JCT from October 2014 to September 2018. Dr. Karsenty is a Senior Member of the IEEE and OSA, and has received around 40 awards in various areas of engineering and physics.
Graduate Students
Ph.D. Students

Yaakov Mandelbaum
PhD student,
2016-

Jeremy Belhassen
PhD student,
2018-
M.Sc. Students

Moshe Alfassi
M.Sc. student,
2019-

Avi Petrof
M.Sc. student,
2021-

Yair Zigman
M.Sc. student,
2021-

Itamar Ganan
M.Sc. student,
2022-
Undergraduate Students
B.Sc. Students

Simcha Glass
B.Sc. student, 5th year,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept

Binyamin Kusnetz
B.Sc. student, 5th year,
Applied Physics / Electro-Optics Engineering Dept

Maor Amir
B.Sc. student, 3rd year,
Applied Physics / Electro-Optics Engineering Dept
Yehonathan Megidi
B.Sc. student, 5th year,
Applied Physics / Electro-Optics Engineering Dept

Moshe Goldin
B.Sc. student, 5th year,
Applied Physics / Electro-Optics Engineering Dept


Matan Levi
B.Sc. student, 4th year,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept

Itzhak Shmueli
B.Sc. student, 4th year,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept

Daniel Bitton
B.Sc. student, 4th year,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept
Team Staff Collaborators
The ALEO team includes Staff Collaborators who share the benefits of their long experience in the both academic and high-tech spheres.

Dr. Avraham Chelly
BIU
Dr. Avraham Chelly received the MSc. degree in Material Science from Université Louis Pasteur, France (1992), and Ph.D. degree in Solid-State-Physics from Université de Haute Alsace, France (1997). He held a Postdoctoral position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Working as a research engineer at the Microelectronics Laboratory (2004), he moved to Bar-Ilan University, where he established the Advanced Semiconductor Devices Laboratory. He is involved in nanoscale electro-optics devices’ research and lectures.

Dr. Michael Bendayan
Rafael
Dr. Michael Bendayan received his Ph.D. degree at the Technion Institute. He is part of the research team under the supervision of Dr. Avi Karsenty. He is now Professional Fellow at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems LTD.

Dr. Benny Adoram
Elbit Systems
Dr. Benny Adoram (Grossman) has obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (HUJI) in 2002, His M.Sc. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1992 and his Bachelor degree in Electro-Optics from the Jerusalem Collage of Technology (JCT) in 1985. Dr. Adoram has extensive experience with Infrared detectors, micro-electronic device fabrication, fiber-optics and Electro–Optics systems. Dr. Adoram has lead demonstrator #3 of “Optipac” consortium. Other fields of interest include design of RF filters and EMI/RFI testing. Presently employed by Elbit Systems EW and Sigint - Elisra
Graduate Alumni
Team Alumni are now fully integrated in High-Tech, Academy and Defense corps.



Albert Ciprut
Rochester University
Intel
Tsion Eisenfeld
LUMUS
Eyal Terkialtaub
Alumni, year 2013
Alumni, year 2019
Alumni, year 2019
Undergraduate Alumni

Roee Zolberg
IDF
Alumni, year 2016


Roi Sabo
El-Op
Alumni, year 2016


Ariel Zev
IDF
Alumni, year 2017


Ilan Gadasi
IDF
Alumni, year 2017


Zvi Priel
IDF
Alumni, year 2017

Gaby Teller
Civan
Menahem Szfalfrok
Accellix
Alumni, year 2018
Alumni, year 2018

Harel Perlman
IAI
Alumni, year 2020

Harel Brestel
Alumni, year 2020
Frisch Amos
IDF
Gilad Hirshfeld
Mobileye
Alumni, year 2019
Alumni, year 2019

Raz Mottes
IDF
Alumni, year 2021

Elior Nir
Rafael
Alumni, year 2021
Matityahu Karelits
IDF
Alumni, year 2019

Shemuel Paknahad
Alumni, year 2021
Ariel Khakshoor
IDF

Elior Haffner
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Daniel Netanyahu
Rosh Electroptics Ltd.

David Glukhov
IDF
Alumni, year 2021
Alumni, year 2021
Alumni, year 2021
Alumni, year 2022

Avihu Levi
IDF
Alumni, year 2022

Yosef Berger
Mobileye
Alumni, year 2022
Team Atmosphere




Dynamic Team Atmosphere
Working at ALEO gives students an exciting and illuminating experience as working as part of a larger team.






