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).