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Academics

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Professor Alina Karabchevsky

Prof. Karabchevsky is the Director of Integrated Photonic Centre and Group leader of the Light-on-a-Chip at the  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BGU and a Visiting Researcher at the Physics Department of Lancaster University. She is leading the Integrated Photonics track.

Email: alinak at bgu dot ac dot il; a.karabchevsky at lancaster dot ac dot uk

Research Fellow

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Dr. Aviad Katiyi

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Dr Aviad Katityi graduated from Light-on-a-Chip group with MSc and PhD in 2017 and 2021 respectively. Aviad is an expert in guided-wave optics. 

His main interests lie in the areas of molecular vibrations with guided-wave optics. His thesis is entitled: 'Optical waveguides for sensing applications'.

MSc seminar at EOE Unit

MSc Thesis

PhD Thesis

Email: akatiyi at gmail dot ac dot com 

PhD Students

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Mrs. Maya Shor Peled

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Maya obtained her BSc in Material Science Engineering in 2017 from the BGU and MSc from Sde Boqer Campus at BGU under the supervision of Dr Avi Niv. In 2020 Maya joined the Light-on-a-Chip group of Photonics and Electro-Optics Engineering at the School of ECE at Ben-Gurion University as a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Alina Karabcehvsky. Her thesis entitled: 'Thermo-Optomechanically driven ‘nano-torches' as a new technique for investigating fundamental biological mechanisms via optical tracking'.

Email: shormaya at post dot bgu dot  il

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Roza Navitskaya obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in Physics from the Belarusian State University in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Her research interests are in laser physics and nonlinear optics. In 2020 Roza joined the Light-on-a-Chip group of Photonics and Electro-Optics Engineering Department at Ben-Gurion University as a Ph.D. student jointly supervised by Ihar Stashkevitch (BSU) and Stanislav Derevyanko (BGU). Her PhD thesis is entitled: "Rogue waves in laser dissipative systems".

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Anastasia Novikova received BSc degree in Environmental protection at the Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2014, a master's degree in Biotechnological Engineering at the Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2016. She was awarded with Tomsk University student's award to visit the Light-on-a-Chip group at 2019. at 2020, Anastasia was accepted as a PhD student at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BGU. Her research interests are in nanoparticles, sorbents, composite sorbents, water purification, heavy metals, radionuclides. Her thesis is entitled "Optical waveguides for applications in label-free chemical and biological sensors "

Email: furia dot 08 at mail dot ru

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Mr. Uzziel Sheintop

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Uzziel Sheintop obtained his MSc from Hebrew University of Jerusalem on high-power lasers. Since then, Uzziel worked as Electrooptics engineer in Emmerson company. He joined Light-on-a-Chip group at Ben-Gurion University at 2021 to pursue his PhD studies. His PhD thesis is entitled: 'Development evanescent sensors for detection in gas states'.

Email: Uzziel dot Sheintop at Emmerson dot com

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Mr. Fyodor Morozko

Fyodor Morozko obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Physics from the Belarusian State University in 2018 and 2019 respectively. His research interests are in non-Hermitian and Parity-Time symmetric systems and optics in complex media. In 2020 Fyodor joined the Light-on-a-Chip group of Photonics and Electro-Optics Engineering Department at Ben-Gurion University as a Ph.D. student jointly supervised by Andrey Novitsky (BSU). His PhD thesis is entitled: "Modeling of the spontaneous emission rate and energy transfer in photonic parity-time-symmetric systems".

Email: fyodormorozko95 at gmail dot com

MSc Students

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Mr. Ahmad Murad

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Ahmad Murad obtained his BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva in 2022 and continued with MSc studies. His main interests lie in the areas of on-chip devices, specifically "On-chip weights realization in optical neural networks"

Email: ahmadmur at post dot bgu dot ac dot il

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Mr. Shadad Watad

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Shadad Watad obtained his BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva in 2023 and continued with MSc studies. His main interests lie in the areas of Réservoir computing on a chip.

Email: watads at post dot bgu dot ac dot il

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Mr. Shalev Haimovich

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Shalev Haimovich obtained his BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva in 2024 and continued with MSc studies. His main interests lie in the areas of on-chip devices, specifically "Realization of optical components in a standard bulk - CMOS process"

Email: watads at post dot bgu dot ac dot il

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Yoav Yukelson,
Omer Gez,
Elad Elmakias,
Itay Sheetrit,
Shalev Alfasi

Projects are focused on novel devices and device automation and

optimization in fields of Solar energy, Neural networks on a chip,

Spectrosocpy on a chip.

BSc Project Students for 2024-2025 academic year

Former Group Members

Mr. Yohai Tevel, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Yonatan Frenkel, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Eilon Aharoni, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Lev Galperin, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Roei Bat, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Irad Peleg, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Ron Amram, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Maor Braun, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Itamar Azran, BSc project 2023-2024
Ms. Maya Halfon, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Ahmad Nassar, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Muhamed Yaseen, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Mahmoud Zubidat, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Moataz Biadse, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Ali Abu Dahesh, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Shay Gihaz, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Mason Naftali, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Yosseph Gavrielov, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Renan Weiss, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Ben Gadol, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Kobi Kuzminsky, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Oren Sberro, BSc project 2023-2024
Mr. Natan Yousufov, BSc project 2023-2024
Ms. Daniel Mednikov, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Vova Kostetsky, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Kareem Abedelrahman Dagash, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Shadad Watad, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Ameer Naser, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Uriel Manzur, BSc project 2022-2023
Ms. Lea Zamansky, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Idan Dahari, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Yadin Astivker, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Alex Dobrovolsky, BSc project 2022-2023
Mr. Eyal Rozenwald, BSc project 2022-2023
Ms. Sariel Bier, PhD 2023
Mr. Adir Hazan, MSc 2019-2022 
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Mr. Lev Tsapovsky, PhD 2021-2022
Ms. Tal Elbaz, MSc 2018-2021 
Part2 Thesis
Mr. Lior Salmona, BSc project 2021-2022
Mr. Muhammad Hamdan, BSc project 2021-2022
Mr. Tom Shimony, BSc project 2020-2021
Mr. Tal Alterman, BSc project 2020-2021
Mr. Ori Sheinfeld, BSc project 2020-2021
Ms. Eden Levy, BSc project 2020-2021
Mr. Benny Hadad, Technician, 2015-2020, Currently  an Engineer at Physics Department at BGU
Mrs. Angeleene Ang, PhD 2017-2020
Mr. Daler Dadadzhanov, PhD 2016-2020, Currently Research Assistant at ITMO University, Russian Federation 
Thesis
Mr. Marat Spector, Post-doc July-Oct 2020, Technician 2019-2020
Mr. Pavel Terekhov, PhD 2016-2020 
Seminar at EOE Unit 2019, Currently post-doc at Penn State University, USA Thesis
Mr. Adir Hazan, BSc project 2017-2019 BSc final project
Mr. Yaakov Keren, BSc project 2017-2019 
Dr. Ioseph Gurwich, Technician 2018-2019
Mr. Michael Elman, BSc project 2017-2019 
Mr. Kobi Harush, BSc project 2017-2019 
Ms. Yarden Tzabari, BSc project 2017-2019
Mr. Yakov Greenberg, MSc 2016-2019
Thesis
Mr. Nikita Volskii, visiting student 2016-2018
Mr. Vladislav Samishkin, visiting student 2017-2018
Mrs. Anar Ospanova, visiting student 2017
Mr. Yury Artemyev, visiting student 2016-2018
Mr. Aviad Katiyi, MSc 2015-2017, Currently Research Assistant at Light-on-a-Chip group
Mr. Avi Lerner, Technician, 2016-2017

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