Cohen, Yoram
Faculty of Life Sciences
Phone at TAU: 03-6407232
Fax: 03-6409293
E-mail: ycohen@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging to brain research.

Current Research Topics:
Diffusion weighted MRI of cerebral ischemia. MRI and MRS of animal model of hydrocephalus. Contrast agents for MRI. NMR microscopy of brain transplant. Methods and Techniques:
Organic synthesis. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS). Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Horn, David
School of Physics and Astronomy
Phone at TAU: 03-6429305, 6406619
Fax: 03-6407932
E-mail: horn@neuron.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Neural computation.

Current Research Topics:
Neural modeling of cognitive functions. Networks of spiking neurons. Applications of neural networks.

Methods and Techniques:
Mathematical modeling. Computer simulations.

Intrator, Nathan
School. of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences
Phone at TAU: 03-6407598
Fax: 03-6415134
E-mail: nin@tau.ac.il

Research area:
Neural Computation, Machine Learning.

Current Research Topics:
Brain Imaging and Inference. Models of Memory and Learning. Cardiac Functionality Inference from Acoustics.

Applications:
Biomedical devices. Sonar and Ultrasound Enhancement. EEG and fMRI inference.

Kosower, Edward M.
School of Chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences
Phone at TAU: 03-6408556
Fax: 03-6409293
E-mail: kosower@chemsg6.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Molecular basis of learning and memory.

Current Research Topics:
FTIR-ATR of micrograms of protein by fiberoptic spectroscopy. Excitation spectra of bimane-labeled biological materials. Theoretical analysis of receptors, nAChR, rhodopsin and Na channel.

Methods and Techniques:
UV. Fluorescence FTIR.

Meilijson, Isaac
School of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences
Phone at TAU: 03-6408826
Fax: 03-6409357
E-mail: isaco@math.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Probability and statistics.

Current Research Topics:
A-Life. Multi-lesion analysis. Evolution and learning.Stem cells design issues.

Methods and Techniques:
Bayesian analysis. Hidden Markov models. Statistical modelling. Dynamic programming and other optimization techinques.

Navon, Gil
School of Chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences
Phone at TAU: 03-6408156
Fax: 03-6410665
E-mail: navon@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR, MRI)

Current Research Topics:
New method for metabolic functional imaging of the brain.

Methods and Techniques:
Proton NMR imaging of Oxygen-17 distribution

Ruppin, Eytan
School of Medicine, School of Mathematics
Phone at TAU: 03-6406528
Fax: 03-6409357
E-mail: ruppin@math.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Computational neuroscience. Evolutionary Agents.

Current Research Topics:
Neural models of memory and learning. Neural modeling of brain disorders. Dynamics of associative networks.

Methods and Techniques:
Computer models and simulations of neural networks.

Shamir, Ron
Dept. Computer Science
Phone at TAU: 03-6405383
Fax: 03-6405384
E-mail:rshamir@tau.ac.il

Research area:
neuroinformatics

Current Research Topics:
network analysis of fMRI signals

Methods and Techniques:
graph theory, algorithms, complexity, clustering

Sochen, Nir
Department of Applied Mathematics
Phone at TAU: 03-6409622
Fax: 03-6409357
E-mail: sochen@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Image processing and computational vision

Current Research Topics:
Color Segmentation, Texture Segmentation,Lie group invariants, stereo vision, motion analysis, learning in vision,for study of medical images and the construction of 3D scene from visual cues.

Methods and Techniques:
I apply differential geometry, calculus of variations, partial differential equations, Lie group theory and statistical mechanics as a means to extract meaningful information from image(s) or (spatial or temporal) sequence(s) of images.

Wolfson, Haim
School of Computer Science
Phone and FAX at TAU: +972-3-640 6476
E-mail:wolfson@math.tau.ac.il
URL: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~wolfson

Research area:
Structural (geometric) pattern discovery and recognition methods in Molecular Biology and Computer Vision.

Current Research Topics:
Computer Vision: algorithms for partially occluded object recognition in cluttered scenes. Structural Bioinformatics:Algorithms for protein structural alignment and classification, detection of conserved structural cores and detection of conformationally flexible motifs. Algorithms for the prediction of biomolecular recognition, docking and computer assisted drug design.

Methods and Techniques:
Algorithms based on geometric invariants and efficient indexing of geometric constraints into large memories.

Yeshurun, Yehezkel
Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences
Phone at Home: 03-5714561
Fax: 03-6409357
E-mail:hezy@math.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Computational vision

Current Research Topics:
Steropsis. Motion. Visual attention. Auditory scene analysis.