Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With the application of machine learning techniques to various fields (for example, computer vision and healthcare), the problem of interpretability is gaining importance. Building transpare…
Biomedical Engineering
The duplication of genetic information (DNA replication) is central to life. Numerous control mechanisms ensure the exact course of the process during each cell division. Disturbances of DNA…
Mathematics
The max-cut problem as part of extremal combinatorics was formulated by Paul Erdos in the 1960s. Multiple papers have been written on the topic regarding its role in mathematics as an extrem…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Some of the most common machine learning pipelines with real-world applications in the fields of healthcare, finance and marketing involve manipulation of tabular data. In recent years multi…
Systems Software
USB mass storage devices security has been a leading issue in cybersecurity for decades. Attacks like Stuxnet and Flame and USB exploitation methods like BadUSB and Cottonmouth-I demonstrate…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Despite the success of machine learning models in an expansive range of tasks, they are still surprisingly brittle to seemingly inconspicuous input manipulations, called adversarial examples…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Abstract reasoning and logic inference are difficult problems for neural networks, yet essential to their applicability in highly structured domains. In this work, the Neural Abstract Reason…
Mathematics
A graph represents a group of objects (network) and the relations between them. This research introduces ranking of vertices – a mathematical concept, applied to various areas (Google search…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
Emotions are a key aspect of being human. Yet our technological tools largely ignore that. It is reasonable to expect that the next stage of personal assistants can also recognize and react…
Systems Software
The Universal Serial Bus is a serial communication standard that is implemented in most of the computer-like devices in the world. Despite its acceptance, government and private entities hav…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
While deep reinforcement learning has achieved some impressive results in the past years, it suffers from poor sample efficiency and an inablily to generalize, since they learn to manipulate…
Mathematics
We propose a generalization of Artin's conjecture on primitive roots to the ring Z[i] of Gaussian integers. We conjecture that for a fixed positive integer q, every non-zero Gaussian integer…