Assoc. Prof. Emil Saucan

Assoc. Prof. Emil Saucan

Assoc. Prof. Emil Saucan

077-9032065, פנימי 1365
EM312
מחלקה: Applied Mathematics
תפקיד נוכחי: Associate Professor

Education :

Ph.D.2005 (Mathematics) Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Dissertation: The Existence of Quasimeromorphic Mappings.

M.Sc. 1989 (Mathematics) Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Dissertation: Kleinian Groups.

B.Sc. 1989 Mathematics) Faculty of Mathematics, Bucharest University, Romania.
Final Project: Homotopy Groups

  1. D. Dissertation

PhD Thesis: “The Existence of Quasiregular Mappings”, 2005, 49 pages, Advisor: Prof. Uri Srebro, Department of Mathematics, Technion. The Thesis is based on two journal articles that were published previously, namely [1] and [5] in the publication list below.

  1. Edited Books and Special Journal Issues – Published
  2. E. Saucan and D. X. Gu, Eds., Discrete Differential Geometry and its Applications in Imaging and Graphics, special issue of Axioms, 2014.
  3. E. Saucan and D. X. Gu, Eds., Discrete Geometry and its Applications, special issue of Axioms, 2017.
  1. Edited Books and Special Journal Issues – Accepted for Publication
  2. Emil Saucan and David Gu, Editors, Geometric and Topological Methods for Imaging and Graphics, special issue of Mathematics, in progress (approx. 150 pages).
  1. Articles in Refereed Journals

Published

  1. E. Saucan, Note on a Theorem of Munkres. Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, 2 (2005), 215-229.
  2. E. Saucan, Euler’s Theorem as the Path Towards Mathematics. Nexus Network Journal, 7(1) (2005), 111-119.
  3. E. Saucan and E. Appleboim, Digital Version of Green’s Theorem and its Application to the Coverage Problem in Formal Verification, Studii si Cercetari Stiintifice, Seria Matematica 16 (2006), 539-554.
  4. E. Saucan, The Existence of Quasimeromorphic Mappings in Dimension 3, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, 10 (2006), 21-40.
  5. E. Saucan, The Existence of Quasimeromorphic Mappings, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Mathematica, 31 (2006), 131-142.
  6. E. Saucan, The Existence of Automorphic Quasimeromorphic Mappings and a Related Problem, Revue Roumaine de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees, 51(5-6) (2006), 759-766.
  7. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Image Projection and Representation on Sn, Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, 13(6) (2007), 711-727.
  8. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Sampling and Reconstruction of Surfaces and Higher Dimensional Manifolds, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 30(1) (2008), 105-123.
  9. E. Saucan, E. Remarks on the Existence of Quasimeromorphic Mappings, Contemporary Mathematics, 455 (2008), 325-331.
  10. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim, E. Barak-Shimron, R. Lev, R. and Y. Y. Zeevi, Local versus Global in Quasiconformal Mapping for Medical Imaging, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 32(3) (2008), 293-311.
  11. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim, G. Wolansky and Y.Y. Zeevi, Combinatorial Ricci Curvature for Image Processing. MIDAS Journal, (2008), http://hdl.handle.net/10380/1500, 8 pages.
  12. E. Saucan and M. Katchalski, The existence of thick triangulations an “elementary” proof. The Open Mathematics Journal, 2 (2009), 8-11.
  13. E. Saucan, Intrinsic Differential Geometry and the Existence of Quasimeromorphic Mappings. Revue Roumaine de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees, 54(5-6) (2009), 565-574.
  14. E. Saucan, Geometric Sampling of Infinite Dimensional Signals, Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, 10(1-2) (2011), 59-76.
  15. E. Saucan, Curvature based triangulation of metric measure spaces, Contemporary Mathematics, 554 (2011), 207-227.
  16. E. Appleboim and E. Saucan, Normal Approximations of Geodesics on Smooth Triangulated Surfaces, Scientific Studies and Research. Series Mathematics and Informatics, 21(1) (2011), 17-36.
  17. E. Saucan, Isometric Embeddings in Imaging and Vision: Facts and Fiction, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 43(2) (2012), 143-155.
  18. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Geometric Approach to Sampling and Communication, Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing,11(1) (2012),1-24.
  1. E. Saucan and M. Katchalski, Fat Triangulations, Curvature and Quasiconformal Mappings, Axioms 1(2) (2012), 99-110.
  2. E. Saucan, On a construction of Burago and Zalgaller, The Asian Journal of Mathematics, 16(4) (2012), 587-606.
  3. X. D. Gu and E. Saucan, Metric Ricci curvature for PL manifolds, Geometry, (2013), Article ID 694169, 12 pages, doi:10.1155/2013/694169
  4. E. Saucan, Metric Ricci Curvature and Flow for PL Manifolds. Actes des rencontres du C.I.R.M., 3(1), 2013, 119-129.
  5. E. Appleboim, Y. Hyams, S. Krakovski, C. Sageev, and E. Saucan, The Scale-Curvature Connection and its Application to Texture Segmentation, Theory and Applications of Mathematics & Computer Science, 3(1) (2013), 38-54.
  6. E. Saucan, A Metric Ricci Flow for Surfaces and its Applications, Geometry, Imaging and Computing, 1(2) (2014), 259-301.
  7. E. Saucan, Metric Curvatures and their Applications I, Geometry, Imaging and Computing, 2(4) (2015), 257-334.
  8. R. P. Sreejith, K. Mohanraj, J. Jost, E. Saucan and A. Samal, Forman curvature for complex networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, (2016) 063206, http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-5468/2016/6/063206, 26 pages.
  9. M. Weber, J. Jost and E. Saucan, Forman-Ricci flow for change detection in large dynamical data sets., Axioms, 5(4) (2016), 26, doi:10.3390/axioms5040026, 12 pages.
  10. Z. Luo, Z.Wang, J. Zhang, and E. Saucan, ARAP++: A Free-Boundary Mesh Parameterization with Convex Combination Weights, Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 17(6) (2016), 501-515.
  11. R. P. Sreejith, J. Jost, E. Saucan and A. Samal, Systematic evaluation of a new combinatorial curvature for complex networks, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 101 (2017), 50-67.
  12. M. Weber, E. Saucan and J. Jost, Characterizing Complex Networks with Forman-Ricci curvature and associated geometric flows, Journal of Complex Networks, 5(4) (2017), 527-550.
  13. Z. Wang, Z. Luo, J. Zhang, J. and E. Saucan, ARAP++: An Extension of the Local/Global Approach to Spherical Parameterization, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 329 (2018), 294-306.
  14. A. Naitsat, S. Cheng, X. Qu, X. Fan, E. Saucan and Y. Y Zeevi, Geometric Approach to Detecting Volumetric Changes in Medical Images, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 329 (2018), 37-50.
  15. M. Weber, E. Saucan and J. Jost, Coarse geometry of evolving networks, Journal of Complex Networks 6(5), (2017), 706-732.
  16. E. Saucan, A. Samal, M. Weber and J. Jost, Discrete curvatures and network analysis (2018), MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 80(3) (2018), 605-622.
  17. A. Samal, R. P. Sreejith, J. Gu, S. Liu, E. Saucan and J. Jost, Comparative analysis of two discretizations of Ricci curvature for complex networks, Scientific Reports, (2018), 8:8650, 16 pages.
  18. A. Naitsat, E. Saucan and Y. Y. Zeevi, Geometry based distortion measures for space deformation, Graphical Models, 100 (2018),12-25.
  19. Emil Saucan, R. P. Sreejith, R. P. Vivek-Ananth, J. Jost, and A. Samal, Discrete Ricci curvatures for directed networks, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 118, (2019), 347-360.
  20. H. Kannan, E. Saucan, I. Roy and A. Samal, Persistent homology of unweighted networks via discrete Morse Theory, Scientific Reports (2019), 9:13817, 18 pages.
  21. E. Saucan, Metric Curvatures and their Applications 2: Metric Ricci Curvature and Flow, Mathematics, Computation and Geometry of Data, 1(1) (2020), 59-97.
  22. E. Saucan, A. Samal and J. Jost, A Simple Differential Geometry for Complex Networks, 2020, Network Science, Cambridge University Press, (2020) 29 pages.

(First View,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nws.2020.42).

  1. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books       (which are not Conference Proceedings)

Published

  1. Emil Saucan, Curvature – Smooth, Piecewise-Linear and Metric, In: What is Geometry?, Advanced Studies in Mathematics and Logic, Polimetrica, Milano, 2006, 237-268.
  2. Emil Saucan, Metric Curvatures Revisited – A Brief Overview, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM) 2184, Springer, 2017, 63-114.
  1. Articles in Conference Proceedings (Reviewed)

Published

  1. P. Soreanu and E. Saucan, Semi-Continuous Monitoring of Student Feedback in Interactive Synchronous E-Learning Environments, Proceedings of Third IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT’03), 2003, 276-277, Athens, Greece.
  2. P. Soreanu and E. Saucan, Instructor Immediacy in Synchronous e-Learning Environments, Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 2005, 3001-3005. Norfolk, VA: AACE.
  3. E. Saucan and E. Appleboim, Curvature Based Clustering for DNA Microarray Data Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, IbPRIA2005, 3523, 2005, 405-412, Springer-Verlag.
  4. E. Saucan, A Place for Differential Geometry, Proceedings of The Fourth International Colloquium on the Didactics of Mathematics, Vol II, 2005, 267-276, Rethymnon, Crete, Grece.
  5. E. Appleboim, E. Saucan, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Minimal-Distortion Mappings of Surfaces for Medical Imaging. Proceedings of VISAP 2006 International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2006, 422-427, Setubal, Portugal.
  6. E. Appleboim, E. Saucan, Y.Y. Zeevi and O. Zeitoun, Quasi-Isometric and Quasi-Conformal Development of Triangulated Surfaces for Computerized Tomography, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, IWCIA2006, 4040, 2006, 361-374, Springer-Verlag.
  7. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim and Y. Y. Zeevi, Two-Dimensional Sampling and Representation of Folded Surfaces Embedded in Higher Dimensional Manifolds, Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2006 – European Signal Processing Conference, 2006, 1-5, Florence, Italy.
  8. E. Appleboim, E. Saucan, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Quasi-Conformal Flat Representation of Triangulated Surfaces for Computerized Tomography, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, CVAMIA2006, 4241, 2006, 155-165, Gratz, Austria.
  9. R. Lev, E. Saucan, and G. Elber, Curvature Estimation over Smooth Polygonal Meshes using The Half Tube Formula, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Mathematics of Surfaces: 12th IMA International Conference, 4647, 2007, 275-289, Springer-Verlag.
  10. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim and Y. Y. Zeevi, Geometric Sampling of Manifolds for Image Representation and Processing. SSVM 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4485, 2007, 907-918, Springer-Verlag.
  11. E. Appleboim, E. Saucan, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Geometric Sampling for Signals with Applications to Images, SampTA 07 – Sampling Theory and Applications, 2008, 1-6, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  12. E. Saucan and E. Appleboim, Metric Methods in Surface Triangulation, Proceedings of IMA Conference “Mathematics of Surfaces XIII”, York, England, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5654, 2009, 335-355.
  13. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim, G. Wolansky and Y.Y. Zeevi, Combinatorial Ricci Curvature and Laplacians for Image Processing, Proceedings of CISP’09, Tianjin, China, Vol. 2, 2009, 992-997.
  14. E. Saucan, C. Sagiv and E. Appleboim, Geometric Wavelets for Image Processing: Metric Curvature of Wavelets. Proceedings of SampTA 2009, http://hal.archivesouvertes.fr/docs/00/49/54/56/PDF/SampTAProceedings.pdf, 2009, 85-89, Marseille, France.
  15. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim and Y. Y. Zeevi, Geometric Sampling of Images. Vector Quantization and Zador’s Theorem, Proceedings of SampTA 2009, http://hal.archivesouvertes.fr/docs/00/49/54/56/PDF/SampTAProceedings.pdf, 2009, 267-269, Marseille, France.
  16. E. Appleboim, E. Saucan, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Geometric Reproducing Kernels for Signal Reconstruction. Proceedings of SampTA 2009, http://hal.archivesouvertes.fr/docs/00/49/54/56/PDF/SampTAProceedings.pdf, 2009, 291-294, Marseille, France.
  17. E. Appleboim, E. Saucan, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Ricci Curvature and Flow for Image Denoising and Superesolution. Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2012, 2012, 2743-2747, Bucharest, Romania. [EUSIPCO Hindex 26, ranked 18 among Image Processing & Computer Vision conferences]
  18. E. Sonn, E. Saucan, E. Appelboim, and Y. Y. Zeevi, Ricci Flow for Image Processing, Proceedings of IEEEI 2014, 2014, 5 pages, Eilat, Israel.
  19. A. Naitsat, E. Saucan and Y. Y. Zeevi, Computing quasiconformal maps in 3D with applications to geometric modeling and imaging. Proceedings of IEEEI 2014, 2014, 5 pages, Eilat, Israel.
  20. N. Chien-Chun,Y.-Y. Lin., J. Gao., X. D. Gu and E. Saucan, Ricci Curvature of the Internet Topology, Proceedings of INFOCOM 2015, 2015, 2758-2766, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
  21. A. Naitsat, E. Saucan and Y. Y. Zeevi, Volumetric Quasiconformal Mappings, Proceedings of GRAPP/VISIGRAPP 2015, 2015, 46-57, Berlin, Germany.
  22. G. Gilboa, E. Appleboim, E. Saucan and Y. Y. Zeevi, On the Role of Non-local Menger Curvature in Image Processing, Proceedings of ICIP 2015, 2015, 4337-4341, Quebec, Canada.
  23. S. Lin, Z. Luo, J. Zhang and E. Saucan, Generalized Ricci Curvature Based Sampling and Reconstruction of Images, Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2015, 2015, 604-608, Nice, France.
  24. M. Goswami, S. Li, J. Zhang, J. Gao, E. Saucan, and X. D. Gu, Space Filling Curves for 3D Sensor Networks with Complex Topology, Proceedings of CCCG 2015, 2015, 21-30, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  25. A. Naitsat, E. Saucan and Y. Y. Zeevi, Geometric approach to estimation of volumetric distortions, Proceedings of VISIGRAPP 2016, 2016, 105-112, DOI:10.5220/0005778201030110, Rome, Italy.
  26. E. Saucan and J. Jost, Network Topology vs. Geometry: From Persistent Homology to Curvature, Proceedings of NIPS LHDS 2016, 2016, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/ rofuyu/lhdsnips16/ papers/11.pdf, 1-6, Barcelona, Spain.
  27. A. Naitsat, E. Saucan and Y. Y. Zeevi, A differential geometry approach for change detection in medical imaging, Proceedings of CBMS 2017, June 22-24, 2017, 85-88, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  28. M. Weber, J. Jost and E. Saucan, Detecting the Coarse Geometry in Networks, NIPS 2018 Workshop on Relational Representation Learning, (NIPS 2018) 2018, www.mis.mpg.de/preprints/2018/preprint2018_97.pdf, 1-6.
  29. E. Saucan and M. Weber, Forman’s Ricci curvature – From networks to hypernetworks, Proceedings of COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), Springer, 2019, 707-717.
  30. E. Saucan, A. Samal and J. Jost, A Simple Differential Geometry for Networks and its Applications, Proceedings of COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), Springer, 2020, 943-954.
  31. 3 J. Zhang, L. Zhang and E. Saucan, Ant Colony Shape Matching Algorithm Based on the Gromov-Wasserstein Distance, Proceedings of ICDH 2020, 7 pages, 2020.

   External Abstract/Abstracts (Reviewed)

  1.   E. Saucan and P. Soreanu, The Myhill-Nerode Theorem – from Automata to Formal

Verification, abstract accepted at GCETE’2005 – Global Congress on Engineering and Technology Education, March 13-16, 2005, 2 pages, Bertioga, Brazil.

  1.  2. E. Saucan, Appleboim and Y. Y. Zeevi, Two-Dimensional Representation of Folded Surfaces Embedded in Higher Dimensional Manifolds, accepted at ICIP 2006, Atlanta (poster session), 4 pages.
  2. E. Saucan and A. Marafon, Mathematical Notation – Between Scylla and Charybdis, abstract accepted at 3nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics, June 30 – July 5, 2006, 1 page, Istanbul, Turkey.
  3. 4. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim and P. Soreanu, Foldings – From Automata to Architecture, abstract accepted at 3nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics, June 30 – July 5, 2006, 1 page, Istanbul, Turkey.
  4. E. Saucan, E. Appleboim and Y. Y. Zeevi, A metric curvature and some of its applications, Quantum Graphs, their Spectra and Applications (An Isaac Newton Institute Workshop), Cambridge, Great Britain, April 2-5, 2007, (poster session), 2 pages.
  1. Other Scientific Publications

Published

  1. X. D. Gu, and E. Saucan, Discrete Geometry – From Theory to Applications: A Case Study (editorial paper). Axioms, 5(4) (2016) 27, 4 pages; doi:10.3390/axioms5040027. [IF 1.829 (SJR); Q3]

Preprints (Selected)

  1. M. Weber, J. Stelzer, E. Saucan, A. Naitsat, G. Lohmann, J. Jost, Curvature-based Analysis of Brain Networks,arXiv:1707.00180v1 [q-bio.NC], 7 pages, 2017.
  2. E. Saucan, Discrete Morse Theory, Persistent Homology and Forman-Ricci Curvature, 28 pages, arXiv:2003.03844v1[math.DG], 2020.
  1. Other Works Connected with my Scholarly Field
  2. E. Saucan, Exercises and Problems in Complex Functions Theory (in Hebrew), Technion, Haifa, 1997, 163 pages.
  3. E. Saucan and D. Guralnik, A Problem Book in Topology, (in Hebrew), Technion, Haifa, 1997, 225 pages.
  1. Submitted Publications

Journal Articles

  1. N. Lei, J. Huang, Y. Ren, Z. Wang, E. Saucan and Z. Wang, Ricci Curvature Based Volumetric Segmentation of the Auditory Ossicles, 2020, IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, IEEE,16 pages, (arXiv:2006.14788v2[cs.CV]).
  2. A Samal, H. K. Pharasi, S. J. Ramaia, E. Saucan, J. Jost and A. Chakraborti, Network geometry and market instability, 2020, Royal Society Open Science, The Royal Society Publishing, 25 pages, (arXiv:2009.12335v1[q-fin.ST]).
  3. V. Barkanass, J. Jost and E. Saucan, Geometric Sampling of Networks, 39 pages, 2020, Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications.

Academic Appointments

2017-   Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Ort Braude College, Karmiel, Israel.

2016-  present   Senior Research Fellow, Electrical Engineering Department, Technion, Haifa,Israel.

Lecturer, Mathematics Departments, Technion; The Neri Bloomfield, Haifa School of Design and Education; and Kibutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel.

2015- 2016 Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

2014-2015 Visiting Professor (Hai-Tian Scholar), Dalian University of Technology, China.

2009-2014 Senior Research Fellow, Mathematics, EE and CS Departments, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

2012-2014  Senior Research Fellow, The Open University, Raanana, Israel.

2012-2014  Lecturer, The Neri Bloomfield, Haifa  School of Design and Education, Haifa, nIsrael.

2010 Lecturer, Haifa University (The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences –  Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences).

2008-2009 Teaching Post-doctoral/Research Fellow, Mathematics Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

2007-2008 Senior Research Fellow, Mathematics and Electrical Enginering Departments, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Senior Lecturer, HIT- Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel.

2005-2007  Andrew and Erna Finci Viterbi Post-doctoral Fellow, Electrical Engineering Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

2001-2005 Lecturer, Ort Braude College, Karmiel, Israel

1999-2000 Supervising Teaching Assistant – Department of Mathematics, Technion, with responsibility over more than 100 Teaching Assistants.

1986-present  Lecturer/TA, Technion, Haifa, Israel Lecturer, The Open University, Raanana, Israel (intermittently).
Lecturer, The Jezreel Valley College, Afula and Nazareth Illit, Israel (intermittently).

2000-2001 Verification Engineer, GALILEO Technology Ltd. (Including Advanced Course at I.B.M. Research Labs, Haifa, Israel.)

1997-1999  Instructor at “Scitech” – The International Summer School for High-school students at the Technion.

1983-1985 High School Teacher, Bucharest and Targoviste, Romania.

Teaching Experience

ORT BRAUDE COLLEGE
  • Undergraduate Courses:
    Calculus I – for engineer students and for math students
    Calculus II
    Linear Algebra
    Advanced Mathematics (Ordinary Differential Equations and Laplace Transform)
    Partial Differential Equations (new course in ORT Braude College)
    Complex Analysis – for engineer students and for math students
    Dynamical Systems
     
OTHER UNIVERSITIES

Graduate Courses:
Technion:
Quasiregular Mappings (guided reading course),
Topics in Geometry (guided reading course),
Mathematics for Social Sciences 1,2,
Mathematics Seminar for System Engineering.

Haifa University:
Signal Analysis – Foundations and Applications.

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig:
Metric Curvatures and Applications.

Dalian University of Technology:
Advanced Differential Geometry,
Curvature and its Applications in Computer Science (mini-course).
The Center of Engineering Mathematics, Kunming, China.
Metric Geometry for Imaging and Graphics
The Open University:
Mathematics for Graduate Students in Business Management.
Kibutzim College of Education:
Combinatorics and Probability,
Non-Euclidean Geometry.

 Undergraduate Courses:
The Technion:
Calculus 1,2, (engineering students),
Infinitesimal Calculus 1 (math students),
Ordinary Differential Equations (math students),
Complex Analysis (engineering students),
Function Theory (math students),
Differential Geometry (math students),
Geometry (math students),
Foundations of Geometry (math students),
Linear Algebra (engineering students),
Modern Algebra, (engineering students),
Combinatorics (math students),
Mathematics for Architects,
Mathematics for Life Sciences

The Open University:
Introduction to Mathematics,
Linear Algebra,
Calculus II
H.I.T. – Holon Institute of Technology:
Calculus 1,
Image Processing,
Pattern Recognition,
Wavelets
The Neri Bloomfield Haifa School of Design and Education:
Mathematics for Designers
Kibutzim College of Education:
Analytic Geometry,
Space Geometry 2,
Euclidean Geometry 2

Academic and Professional Awards and Grants

 2005.2007 Winner of the Andrew and Erna Finci Viterbi Post-doctoral fellowship.

2012-2017       As member of the VISL Laboratory team, the Electrical Engineering

Department, Technion, I have obtained, in collaboration with the other

members of the group, a number of National and Industrial Research

Grants, in particular the “Magnet” (2015-2016), “Dvora” and “Magneton”

grants, joint with “Elbit” and “Intel” (researcher/ principal researcher).

2015-2019       Selected by the Recruitment Program of  High-end Foreign Experts of the State

Administration of Foreign Experts Affair of China

2016-2019        National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grant, Key

Technologies (with Jielin Zhang and Zhongxuan Luo, Dalian University of Technology).

 

Professional Activities

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Israel Mathematical Union (former)
IEEE (former)
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

2011-present    Editorial Board Member of “Axioms”.

2012                Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (Applied Mathematics)

2011                Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (Applied Mathematics)

2011               Evaluator for Partnership Programme – Joint Applied Research Projects –  PCCA 2011, the Romanian National Council for Research and Development.

2011               Program Committee member, National Conference on Mathematics and  Informatics, Faculty of Sciences Bacau, Romania, May 26-27.

2006               Program Committee member, Anniversary 45 years Conference of the  Department of Mathematics Bacau, Bacau, Romania, September 18-20.

1999-2000       Supervising Teaching Assistant – Department of Mathematics, Technion, with responsibility over more than 100 Teaching Assistants.

Geometry and its Applications to Imaging, Graphics, Complex Networks, Sampling Theory and Wavelets.
Geometric Function Theory (mainly quasi-conformal and quasi-regular mappings) and their applications to Medical Imaging and Graphics.
Low Dimensional Topology and its Applications.
Curriculum Theory.

RESEARCH COLLABORATION

2017     At the Capital Normal University, Beijing, China (with Professor Feng Luo,  Rutgers University).
2016-present     At the Chinese University of Hong-Kong (with Professor Ronald Lok Min  Lui).

2015-present    At the Max Planck Institute for the Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig,  Germany (with Professor Juergen Jost; Professor Areejit Samal – IMSc, Chennai, India; Melanie Weber – Leipzig/Princeton University; Doctor  Gabriele Lohmann, Tubingen University.)

2014-2015        At the Dalian University of Technology (with Professors Jielin Zhang and  Zhongxuan Luo)
2014-present     At the School of Software Engineering, Dalian, China (with Professor Xin Fan)

2013-present    At Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (with Professor Jie Gao).

2008-present    At Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (with Professor Xianfeng David  Gu)

2008-2012        At Technion, Haifa, Israel (with Professor Meir Katchalski).

2007-2010        At Technion, Haifa, Israel (with Professor Gershon Wolansky).

2005-present    At Technion, Haifa, Israel (with Professor Yehoshua Y. Zeevi).

2004-2007        At Technion, Haifa, Israel (with Professor Gershon Elber).

2001-2004        At Ort Braude College of Engineering (with Doctor Peter Soreanu).

2001-present    At Technion, Haifa, Israel (with Doctor Eli Appleboim).

 

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