I hold a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering, an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Geo-information Engineering, all from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor leading the Swarm and AI (SAIL) Lab at the University of Haifa’s Hatter Department of Marine Technologies.  Before joining the University, I spent over two decades as the founder and CTO of Autonomy & Data Science R&D in the government sector. In this role, I collaborated with international research partners and led research groups. For the past five years, I have been engaged in joint research on swarms and machine learning algorithms with prestigious institutions like CSAIL & LIDS at MIT and UPenn.

My research focuses on harnessing the potential of swarms and artificial intelligence to benefit humanity. Swarms’ adaptability and scalability make them ideal for tasks requiring distributed sensing, acting, and processing. This presents exciting possibilities for tackling complex, large-scale challenges facing our world.  From nanorobots for cancer treatment to environmental monitoring and conservation in the ocean, disaster response and recovery, traffic management, and logistics, swarm intelligence offers humanity significant benefits.  In my free time, I love to travel with my wife and running.