Research Groups

 
HIT's research teams span the core study areas: sciences, engineering, management and design. These groups operate in various fields of interest, including: nano- and surface technology, smart networks, alternative energies, biomedical engineering, fuel substitutes, systems engineering, information mining and processes, antennas, risk analysis and management and many more … The ultimate objective is to develop major, applied interdisciplinary research, to address needs of commerce and industry, by means of cooperative work with them.
 
Each team is led by a technological leader, a HIT staff member/researcher. These teams are comprised of researchers from various faculties at HIT, students and industrialists.
 
The members of each research group conduct serial meetings, exchange ideas and opinions, provide answers to published appeals and more. The group-work process is based on the ongoing sharing of knowledge, aided by HIT's Internet support, enabling communication, video-conference discussions and shared files. The team's action is very dynamic, evolving as necessary by means of the creation of subsidiary groups, establishing new groups in new fields of interest and by adding new members to existing teams.
 

 

The List of Operating HIT Research Groups as of April 2012

 
  1. Alternative energies and smart networking – Dr. Yuval Beck
    Design of solar-cell arrays and alternative energy systems, smart electrical distribution and pinpointing of malfunctions, Smart Grid characteristics, market education for the "Big Brother" approach.

  2. Nanotechnology and surface-science – Prof. Amnon Fruchtman
    Design of technologies for the production of nanoparticles, surface analysis and microscopy, vaporization of thin layers and plasma research, friction and lubrication of materials, surface science research, material structure, coatings and thin-films.

  3. Photo-electronics and optical communications – Prof. Uri Mahleb
    Photo-electronics, optical fiber communications.

  4. Computerized infrastructures for Hebrew font improvement – Prof. Shimon (Jogol) Zandhouse
    An interdisciplinary research team of typographic designers, engineers and scientists seeking to develop a means to increase the ease of reading Hebrew texts by providing typographic solutions, based on various studies in areas associated with the vision, comprehension and sensory and other mechanisms.

  5. Sustainability – Dr. Elias Massins and Mrs. Ela Adital
    An overview of global search toward urban design, based on the values of sustainability and providing a glimpse into the not-so-remote future of congested cities, where people may meet, participate and share, offering their dwellers new possibilities on the personal, community and urban levels.

  6. Mr. Aharon Cohen GIS – Geographic Information System
    The Geographic Information System presents and analyzes all physical and spatial phenomena. It identifies, stores, processes and manages these signals on a geographical map.

  7. Interaction design – Mrs. Michal Rinot
    Futuristic design and thinking on man-technology interfaces, the augmentation of objects by means of information from the Web and from sensors, interactions in the public domain, visualization and sonification, sensory-stimulating interfaces, methodology of interactive design and prototyping.

  8. Technology management – Dr. Gila Albert
    Studies involving areas such as: information systems, information management, performance study, project management, transportation research, environmental and natural resources, economics, systems engineering.

  9. Antennas and radiation – Prof. Motti Kharedim
    The design and planning of methods to reduce radiation to the user's head. Radiation reduction in areas proximate to radio components, to effectively resolve a problem in the field of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). This sort of solution might also be applied to the protection of the human body from electromagnetic radiation. The preservation of antenna features, e.g. the radiation curve, compatibility and efficiency, is a crucial prerequisite for any such solution.

  10. Biomedical engineering – Dr. Ronen Shoshnik
    Neuro-engineering, the brain-machine interface known as BMI, is an area combining electrical or magnetic signals as they are registered directly from the brain (non-invasively) with other biological signals to create an interface between the examined person and external devices, such as a robotic arm, a computer mouse, etc. and for processing medical signals, medical data-mining and diagnostic technology.

  11. Propaganda shapes reality – Mr. Eitan Bartal
    This research deals with the epistemological aspects of propaganda as a tool for the creation of a worldview and for shaping private and collective realities between the virtual and the real. The way we recognize and perceive the world around us as being real is examined through the prism of various communication media and propaganda techniques that create the communicative state from which our experience stems.

  12. Learning technology – Prof. Mickey Ronen
    Computer-mediated teaching and computer-assisted instruction, educational computer games, a mobile instructional environment, and user-interface design.

  13. Theory and control in design – Dr. Dror K. Levi
    Academic development of study programs that investigate the complex political, social, economic, ideological, cultural and aesthetic aspects of contemporary design.

  14. Development of innovative formats for math courses – Dr. Ayelet Butman
    An approach intended to refresh and renovate the mathematical courses taught during the freshman year in the sciences and engineering faculties and their adjustment to the 21st century, in the sense of emphasizing the practical facets of these courses, as expressed in lectures, labs and homework. Likewise, emphasis is placed on synchronizing these courses so that they integrate the methods and mathematical tools studied in a unique, holistic way (not yet being done today).

  15. Process mining & medical data – Dr. Rafael Barchan
    A multi-disciplinary area combining fields of knowledge from medicine, computer sciences, applied mathematics and information systems. This group is comprised of Institute and external researchers and focuses on modeling, measurement and the mining of medical processes for enrichment and improvement of medical treatment quality.