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Undergraduate Alumni

Team Members

Group Leader

  • Head of ALEO - Advanced Laboratory of Electro-Optics

  • Former Head of the Physics/Electro-Optics Dept, Faculty of Engineering.

  • Former Head of HaEytanim -  Personal Empowerment Excellence Program

  • JCT Micro-Nano Technology Education & Research Center

Dr. Avi Karsenty

Group Leader

Dr. Avi Karsenty received his PhD 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

PhD Students

Yaakov Mandelbaum

Yaakov Mandelbaum

PhD Student

Jeremy Belhassen

Jeremy Belhassen

PhD Student

Moshe Alfassi

MSc Student

Maor Hasidim

MSc Student

Yair Zigman

MSc Student

Amit Gueta

MSc Student

Itamar Ganan

MSc Student

Ashkan Aghagani

MSc Student

Amos Laist

MSc Student

Amichai Bazak

MSc Student

Undegraduate Students

BSc Students

Yehonathan Meguidi

BSc Student

Binyamin Kusnetz

BSc Student

Jonathan Behar

BSc Student

Graduate Alumni

Albert Ciprut

MSc, 2013

Intel

Moshe Eisenfeld

MSc, 2019

LUMUS

Eyal Turkialtaub

MSc, 2019

Undergraduate Alumni

Roi Sabo

BSc, 2016

El-Op

Menahem Szfalfrok

BSc, 2018

Accelix

Harel Brestel

BSc, 2020

Daniel Netanyahu

BSc, 2021

Rosh ElectrOptics

Avihu Levi

BSc, 2022

IDF

Roee Zolberg

BSc, 2016

IDF

Gaby Teller

BSc, 2018

Civan

Harel Perlman

BSc, 2020

IAI

Elior Nir

BSc, 2021

Rafael

Simcha Glass

BSc, 2022

IDF

Ilan Gadasi

BSc, 2017

IDF

Amos Frisch

BSc, 2019

IDF

Elior Haffner

BSc, 2021

Shemuel Paknahad

BSc, 2021

Matan Levi

BSc, 2022

IDF

Zvi Priel

BSc, 2017

IDF

Gilad Hirshfeld

BSc, 2018

Mobileye

Ariel Khakshoor

BSc, 2021

IDF

Yosef Berger

BSc, 2022

Mobileye

Ariel Zev

BSc, 2017

IDF

Matityahu Karelits

BSc, 2018

IDF

Raz Mottes

BSc, 2021

IDF

David Glukhov

BSc, 2022

IDF

Staff Collaborators

Dr. Avraham Chelly

Bar-Ilan University

Dr. Avraham Chelly received his MSc degree in material science from the Université Louis Pasteur, France (1992), and his Ph.D. degree in solid-state physics from the Université de Haute Alsace, France (1997). He held a postdoctoral position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where he worked as a research engineer at the microelectronics laboratory (2004). He has since moved to Bar-Ilan University (BIU), where he established the Advanced Semiconductor Devices Laboratory. He is involved in nanoscale electro-optical device research and lectures on the subject.

Dr. Benny Adoram

Elbit Systems

Dr. Benny Adoram (Grossman) obtained his BSc in electro-optics from the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) in 1985, his MSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) in 1992, and his PhD in applied physics from the same in 2002. Dr. Adoram has extensive experience with infrared detectors, micro-electronic device fabrication, fiber-optics and electro–optical systems. Dr. Adoram served as the lead demonstrator #3 of the Optipac consortium. His other fields of interest include the design of RF filters and EMI/RFI testing. He is presently employed by Elbit Systems EW and Sigint - Elisra.

Dr. Michael Bendayan

Rafael

Dr. Michael Bendayan received his PhD degree from the Technion, and is now a Professional Fellow at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems LTD.

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