Application Development Project for a Study in the Department of Psychology

The Dynamic Processes of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy Lab (https://dplab-biu.wixsite.com/dplab) is looking for a software programmer for a short-term project. The lab is housed in the Department of Psychology at Bar Ilan University and directed by Dr. Yogev Kivity (https://psychology.biu.ac.il/en/node/1684).

The lab is currently designing a study that will make use of Garmin Vivosmart 4 wearable device (https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/605739) to record participants’ continuous physiological arousal (heart rate) as part of a study of emotion regulation in daily life. We would like to develop an application using Garmin’s Application Programming Interface (API: https://developer.garmin.com/health-api/overview/) to extract raw data from the lab’s devices that are not accessible using the device’s existing application. The project will include getting familiar with the device and the API, understanding the lab’s needs (through interaction with the study principle investigator), creating a project description, writing the application along with appropriate documentation, training lab personnel on its use and conducting rudimentary quality assurance checks.
The project is especially suitable for advanced Computer Science or Engineering students. Students will be paid on an hourly basis at a pre-agreed rate. For inquiries and application please contact Dr. Yogev Kivity (yogev.kivity@biu.ac.il) and include your CV and a short description of your interests and relevant experience.

 

ICML Best Paper Award

Big congratulations to Gal Chechik and Ethan Fetaya for winning the ICML best paper award! 

ICML is the top International Conference on Machine Learning   – this year 4990 papers were submitted, 1088 were accepted of which 2 were chosen for best paper! 

The first author of the work was Haggai Maron from NVIDIA research center in Israel. Work was done in collaboration with Dr. Or Litani from Stanford. 

“On Learning Sets of Symmetric Elements” is available in following link – 

https://proceedings.icml.cc/static/paper_files/icml/2020/1625-Paper.pdf

A workshop on the topic of Geometric Deep Learning will take place on Aug 2

DSI 2020 Call for Research Corona Grants – List of Accepted Corona Grants

Prof. Hanoch Senderowitz

Implementation and Application of a Deep-Docking platform for the Identification of Drug Compounds Targeting the main Cov-2 Proteins

NIS 21,000

Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern

Text mining and 3D molecular modelling to identify antiviral and anti-pneumonia drugs in order to fight COVID19 viral infection

NIS 15,000

Prof. Yoram Louzoun

Network and learning based estimates of epidemics spread in inhomogeneous populations

NIS 18,000

Dr. Simi Haber 

Dr. Baruch Barzel

COVID-19. Viral spread on temporal social networks

NIS 20,000

Prof. Reuven Cohen

Dr. Simi Haber

Efficient Quarantine in Social Networks

NIS 24,000

SparkBeyond user test

SparkBeyond is an Israeli startup changing the paradigm of how we do data science. Our ideation machine is the best colleague to collaborate with as you explore your data, discover the most effective features to engineer, and optimize your model.

As part of our efforts to improve the onboarding experience of new users (data scientists), we are performing a series of user tests on our system and educational resources. We would be very happy if you could help us with our effort by giving us feedback.
If you are a trained data scientist we invite you to spend 2 hours with our platform & earn $50 

This will take about 2 hours of your time: 

  • 75-90 minutes of self-onboarding, using educational videos, and on-screen guidance. 
  • 30 mins of interview, in which we will discuss your experience with the system and the resources.  

Few important things to note:

  • We are by no means testing your personal or professional abilities. Quite the opposite — we are testing and evaluating our own system, design, and resources. 
  • This two-hour session can be done either remotely (online), or face-to-face in our Netanya office — whatever you prefer.

If you are interested, please contact us and we will take it from there 🙂

Thank you for your time,

The SparkBeyond Team

פרס הרקטור לסטודנטים מצטיינים לתואר שלישי לשנת תש”פ

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.

Coronavirus Related Research Grants

NVIDIA

NVIDIA Gives COVID-19 Researchers Free Access to Parabricks

NSF – BSF

proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to better understand how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19

ISF 

Deadline – March 31

https://www.isf.org.il/Files/Announcement/Guidelines_Kill%20Corona.pdf

The Data Science Institute at Bar-Ilan University

Deadline – March 29

Call for research projects to help with the corona crisis

Ministry of Science and Technology

Deadline –  March 28

https://www.gov.il/he/departments/news/most_news20200322

The Israel Innovation Authority

Deadline – 26/03/2020

https://innovationisrael.org.il/kol-kore/4879

Dangoor Centre For Personalized Medicine, Bar-Ilan University

Deadline – March 25

http://dsi.biu.ac.il/dnagur-corona-cfp

Coronavirus Related Datasets

Covid-19 Twitter chatter dataset for scientific use

Dataset of 40+ million tweets of COVID19 chatter

See – http://www.panacealab.org/covid19/

COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)

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).

Lecturer Needed for Big Data Course

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