I’m father of the charming Yuval and lovely Ella, and companion of Hadas.
I have a lot of industry experience in image processing, physics and project leadership, as well as volunteering for environmental NGOs – Green Action (Head of board, Head of Haifa branch, spokesman), Natures Law (Founder, Director, Project Leader)

Education:
Ph.D. Computational Neuroscience – (not graduated) - Worked on biologically motivated computational models of connectivity in the cortex and its implication on learning and perception. 1999–2000 Full Senate Scholarship
MA Theoretical Physics. Thesis on Quantum Measurement theory (numerical and functional analysis).1996–1998 Full Dean Scholarship
BA Physics Including advanced math and computer science algorithms courses. 1990–1993

Publications:
REFEREED ARTICLES
O. Hay and A. Peres, Quantum and classical descriptions of a measuring apparatus, Physical Review A, July 1998, PP 116-123.
R. Wiemker, P. Rogalla, T. Blaffert, D. Sifri, O. Hay, E. Shah, R. Truyen, and T. Fleiter, Aspects of computer-aided detection (CAD) and volumetry of pulmonary nodules using multislice CT , Br J Radiol 78 2005, PP S46-S56
PATENTS
O. Hay, Automatic Registration Of Intra-Modality Medical Volume Images Using Affine Transformation (WO2005010793)
O. Hay, A. Markovitz, I. Levi, Automatic segmentation of tissues by dynamic change characterization (WO2005073915)
O. Hay, S. Gotman, Automatic Split of CT scan to body parts (pending)
O. Hay, S. Gotman, CT Angiography 3 phase liver in a single scan (pending)

Reaserch: "Computer Aided Quantitative Examination of Computed Tomography Imaging of the Lumbar Spine for Diagnosis of Low Back Pain ".