The Data Science Institute at Bar-Ilan University Congratulation to Mr. Ofir Shtegmann for winning biu rector phd-student excellence award for academic year 2019-2020.
Ofir’s work under the supervision of Prof. Oren Perez (Law) and Prof. Reuven Cohen (Math) applies network science and graph analysis in the law domain and constitutes a great example of collaboration of DSI members and the strong collaboration of the Data Science Institute with the Law Department.
Position closed!
Seeking a student with python/data-science skills for work on a funded bot project lead by Dr. Alon Sela.
50% flexible position. Hourly rate – 90 NIS (may be option for Milga). Work my result in academic publications.
For details please contact Dr. Alon Sela – alonse2012@gmail.com
Position closed!
Just completed a very successful online networks course with over 200 students participating from around the world:
In photo, you can see Israel Prize winner Prof. Shlomo Havlin lecturing on spread of Corona (COVID-19) and Influenza in Italy.
NVIDIA Gives COVID-19 Researchers Free Access to Parabricks
Deadline – March 31
https://www.isf.org.il/Files/Announcement/Guidelines_Kill%20Corona.pdf
Deadline – March 29
Call for research projects to help with the corona crisis
Deadline – March 28
https://www.gov.il/he/departments/news/most_news20200322
Deadline – 26/03/2020
https://innovationisrael.org.il/kol-kore/4879
Deadline – March 25
Dataset of 40+ million tweets of COVID19 chatter
over 44,000 scholarly articles, including over 29,000 with full text, about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and related coronaviruses.
See — https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge (Data + Tasks).
We are looking for a lecturer to teach a course on “Big Data Processing and Analysis”.
The course is intended for STEM students (Chemistry, Physics, Life Sciences, Geography and Environment, Math, Engineering) providing them with theory, techniques and tools to deal with very large amounts of data.
Course will be taught at Bar-Ilan University during fall 2020 (semester I of 2020-2021 academic year).
Following is a draft syllabus – סילבוס קורס ניתוח ועיבוד נתוני עתק – טיוטא (to be updated and finalized by lecturer).
If interested, please send email to dsi@biu.ac.il
AI2 released a large dataset of ~29k coronavirus related research papers, in a somewhat-convenient-to-process json format. The data is hosted on Kaggle, with an accompanying list of research questions (provided by the white house and NIH) including information they want to get extracted out of the data.
These are the questions:https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge/tasks
This can be an interesting opportunity for some relevant and hands-on NLP work, especially those of you who already are into relation extraction / health / biomed. Any approach goes, clustering, ML, sci-BERT, hand-built heuristics… happy to brainstorm about this.
Moreover, some of you may remember that i briefly presented a tool that allows querying of syntax-based patterns over wikipedia data. We (at AI2 Israel) indexed this coronavirus corpus with the tool, to allow syntactic queries over it. This can also be an interesting avenue for exploring the data. While the tool is not yet ready for public release, and is a bit rough around the edges, I will be happy to share it with the lab if there is interest. If anyone wants, I will present the tool to you again in a zoom meeting tomorrow (if there is interest, probably around 15:00, email me if interested).
Following are two papers that we submitted to the ACL demo track: one of them describing the search tool (reading sections 6 and 7), and another about Aryeh’s work (joint with Reut) on BART: an extended syntactic representation that exposes many relation-extraction related relations in a more unified way (it is relevant, as the tool is indexing syntactic graphs after Aryeh’s enhancements. + it is also a really cool paper, imo).
The Bar-Ilan Data Science Institute has initiated a call for research grants that aim to help with the challenges the world is facing due to the corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak.
This is a short cycle call for grants proposals of up to 50K NIS. Deadline: March 29, 2020.
Please see call for full details:
Prof. Yanay Ofran, Life Sciences
Prof. Ron Unger, Life Sciences
Prof. Yoav Goldberg, Computer Science
What makes a sequence of amino acids a protein? Data Driven Approach
75,000 ₪
Dr. Anat Tchetchik, Geography and Environment
Dr. Nir Cohen, Geography and Environment
Prof. Orly Benjamin, Sociology
Constructing a comparative database: cash and in-kind urban welfare payments
72,000 ₪
Prof. Yoram Louzoun, Math
Dr. Omry Koren, Medicine
Predicting the effect of the perturbation on the human microbiome for therapeutic intervention
86,000 ₪
Dr. Vadim Axelrod, Brain
Dr. Baruch Barzel, Math
Network analysis of vegetative state functional MRI data to understand mechanisms of consciousness
86,000 ₪
Prof. Gal Chechik, Brain
Prof. Sharon Gannot, Engineering
Audio-visual referring expressions
86,000 ₪
Dr. Baruch Barzel, Math
Dr. Simi Haber, Math
Dr. Amir Bashan, Physics
Nonlinear to linear Spectral theory for nonlinear network dynamics
86,000 ₪
Dr. Yogev Kivity, Psychology
Prof. Reut Tsarfaty, Computer Science
Learning to Automatically Assess the Capacity for Mentalizing in Clinical Interviews via Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Techniques
86,000 ₪
Prof. Oren Perez, Law
Prof. Reuven Cohen, Math
Networked Compliance: Exploration of Regulatory Inter-linkages in a Multifaceted Regulatory Setting Using Network Analysis
60,000 ₪
Dr. Jonathan Rubin, Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology
Burchard of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terre Sancte: Application of Machine Learning Technologies to the Study of Its Transmission and Reception
77,000 ₪
Prof. Roy Gelbard, Business Administration
Dr. Alon Raviv, Business Administration
Prof. Daniel Levy, Economics
Trends and Events in Business and Economics: A Text-Mining Approach
40,000 ₪
Prof. Oren Perez, Law
Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Medicine
Optimizing the Realization of Legal Rights by Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients Using AI
25,000 ₪
Dr. Rose Stamp, English Literature and Linguistics
Israeli Sign Language (ISL) Corpus
40,000 ₪
Dr. Amiyaal Ilany, Life Sciences
Building an integrative relational database for a long-term animal study
36,000 ₪
Dr. Itamar Lensky, Geography and Environment
Dr. Anat Tchetchik, Geography and Environment
Dr. Keren Agay-Shay, Medicine
Prof. Eyal Yaniv, Business Administration
GREEN SMART CITY: USING PRECISION AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGIES ON GREEN HIGH-RISE BUILDING WALLS
25,000 ₪
Dr. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Law
Dr. Ayelet Sela, Law
A Thematic Analysis and Typology of Ethical Risks in Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Agreements of Mobile Applications
40,000 ₪
Prof. Reuven Cohen, Math
Dr. Simi Haber, Math
Prof. Yoav Goldberg, Computer Science
The Network Properties of Word Embeddings
30,000 ₪