BIU granted 10.1 million NIS from Israel’s The Planning & Budgeting Committee (VATAT)

We are happy to share that BIU was recently granted 10.1 million NIS from Israel’s The Planning & Budgeting Committee (VATAT) for 4 data science projects in the areas of NLP, Vision, Speech and BioInformatics.

The list of projects:

  • AUDIENCE: Audio-Visual Analysis and Separation 
    • Sharon Gannot, Ethan Fetaya, Jacob Goldberger (Engineering)
  • Learning Dynamic Vision and Language 
    • Gal Chechik (Brain), Reut Tsarfaty, Yoav Goldberg (Computer Science)
  • SeqSpace: Supervised Prediction on Unstructured Data 
    • Gur Yaari (Eng), Yoram Louzoun (Math), Omry Koren (Medicine),  Sol Efroni (Life Sciences)
  • Language-portable NLP Infrastructure with Hebrew Data Science as a Case Study
    • Reut Tsarfaty, Ido Dagan, Yoav Goldberg (Computer Science)

Congrats to the winning PIs.

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