Lab alumni
Updated: June 2025
Ph.D. STUDENTS
Nadav Ben-Shushan, PhD
2022, Ph.D. in physics.
Dissertation title: “Fixational eye movements and their role in high acuity vison”.
Current position:
Algorithm developer, Mobileye.
Haggai Agmon, PhD
2022, Ph.D. in computational neuroscience.
Dissertation title: “Mechanisms of spatial representations in entorhinal cortex grid cells and hippocampal place cells”.
Current position:
Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University.
Noga Mosheiff, PhD
2020, Ph.D. in physics
Dissertation title: “Encoding and dynamics in noisy biological systems“.
Current position:
AI / ML Research Engineer, GSK
Neta Ravid Tannenbaum, PhD
2019, Ph.D. in computational neuroscience
Dissertation title: “Shaping neural connectivity by spike timing dependent plasticity“.
Nimrod Shaham, PhD
2018, Ph.D. in physics
Dissertation title: “Working memory of continuous parameters in noisy neural networks”.
Current position:
Algorithm developer, Mobileye's CTO office.
M.Sc. STUDENTS
Tal Bruker
2024, M.Sc. in physics
Thesis title: "Modeling of Fatigued Neural Attractor Networks".
Edward Tananyan
2023, M.Sc. in physics
Thesis title: "Shaping of Network Motifs by spike timing dependent plasticity in recurrent neural networks".
Current position:
Ph.D., student (physics, Burak lab).
Ishay Mor
2014, M.Sc. in physics
Thesis title: “Noise induced systematic drift in continuous attractor neural networks”.
Current position:
Algorithm developer and researcher, Final.
SHORT TERM RESEARCH STUDENTS
Yuval Marcus
2022, Short term research project.
Project title: "A General Method for Optimization of Ring Attractor Networks with Few Neurons".
Current Position:
Graduate student, Hebrew University (Physics).
Ido Shachal
2022 Short term research project.
Project title: "Dynamics of coupled line attractor networks".
Current Position:
Graduate student, Hebrew University (Physics).
Peleg Emanuel
2018-9, Short term research project.
Jonathan Kogman
2019, Undergraduate research project, Amirim honors program.
Project title: “Application of machine learning algorithms to the visual vernier task".
Current position:
Graduate student, Weizmann Institute of Science (Physics).
Yoav Rubinstein
2018, Undergraduate research project, Amirim honors program.
Project title: “Emergence of diverse cluster sizes in inhibitory networks under STDP dynamics”.
Current position:
Graduate student, Hebrew University (Computational Neuroscience).
Mirko Pieropan, PhD
2017, Research project co-supervised with Prof. Rava da Silveira (ENS Paris).
Project title: “Efficient neural coding using random projections“.
Current position:
Locum Associate Editor, Nature Machine Intelligence.
Itai Alpern
2017, Undergraduate research project, Amirim honors program.
Project title: “An idealized model for the dynamics of spatial working memory on a ring”.
Current position:
Graduate student, Hebrew University (Mathematics).
Yael Zak
2016, Undergraduate research project, Amirim honors program and cognition.
Project title: “The role of structural motifs in the spontaneous emergence of neuron assemblies structure”.
Sariel Ozmo
2016, Undergraduate research project, physics.
Project title: “Short-term memory of Shepard tones”.
Amit Aharon
2015, Undergraduate research project, physics and life sciences (Etgar excellence program).
Project title: “Is vernier acuity influenced by peripheral features in the visual scene?”
Current position:
Postdoctoral fellow, Cornell University (Physics).
Alon Salhov
2014, Undergraduate research project, Amirim Honors program.
Project title: “Importance of difference in synaptic time constants on maintaining information in a network of noisy neurons”.
Current position:
Graduate student, Hebrew University (Physics).
Avraham Moriel
2013, Undergraduate research project, physics and cognition.
Project title: “Amount of single module grid cells needed for position estimation”.
Current position:
Postdoctoral research associate, Princeton University (Physics).
Gad Naveh
2012, Undergraduate research project, Amirim honors program.
Project title: “Information decoding in the Vernier task”.
Current position:
Graduate student, Hebrew University (Physics).