Dr. Nisan Ozana is an assistant professor in the Engineering Faculty at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. His interests are in developing and advancing optical and acoustical technologies for neurovascular coupling monitoring, and multimodal brain-computer interface sensing.

Vika Tarle received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Tel Aviv University in 2010, and her M.Sc. in Biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2015. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Bar-Ilan University, focusing on non-invasive neurovascular sensing using speckle-based optical techniques. Her research includes clinical trials of CBF measurement during surgery, interferometric SCOS development and multimodal EEG–SCOS system development.

Moshe holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Bar Ilan University, with a focus on machine learning, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Bioengineering and AI. With 8 years of industry experience as a software engineer — 6 of them specializing in AI — Moshe is currently an AI Research Engineer at Intel, where he focuses on innovation and publications in machine learning and natural language processing. His research spans AI-based classification of THC impairment using fNIRS brain signals, target speech separation from EEG signals, and decoding text from multimodal brain signals in reading comprehension tasks using large language models (LLMs).

Marina has completed a masters in Condensed Matter Materials, and has experience in Solid State Lasers. She is now pursuing her PHD.

Shani completed her BSc in Biomedical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University, specializing in Signal Processing and Machine Learning. Shani has experience with product development cycle from design, implementation and testing working as SW System Engineer at Neuroderm.

Nadav completed a degree in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Nano Technology and Bio Engineering, and is now pursuing a masters. Nadav has previous experience as an Analog Design Engineer at Intel.

Tamar has completed a degree in Electrical Engineering at Bar Ilan University specializing in Electro optics and Signal Processing, and is now pursuing a Masters.

Laurie completed her Bachelor's Degree at Tel Aviv University in Biomedical Engineering, and is now beginning her masters.

Amit’s research focuses on remotely sensing human speech and physiological signals using speckle patterns captured with rolling-shutter temporal sampling.
Amit has completed his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University in 2022, specializing in Signal and Image Processing and Electro-Optics. Currently is working as a System Engineer in the field of Electro-Optics, focusing on Laser-based systems.

Shira Tziony is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Neuroengineering at the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, and is concurrently pursuing a master's degree in Electro-Optics. Her research focuses on laser speckle imaging and biomedical optical sensing. She is currently developing an interferometric laser speckle imaging system for vibration detection via secondary speckle patterns and for contrast extraction in Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy (SCOS).

Ron’s research focuses on developing advanced optical systems for non‑invasive physiological monitoring. His work utilizes Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy (SCOS) in combination with synchronized rolling‑shutter cameras to acquire high‑resolution measurements of Pulse Transit Time (PTT) and blood pressure. By leveraging laser–tissue interactions, he aims to enable precise, cuffless hemodynamic assessment.

Danna is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Electro‑Optics and Biology.

Dan is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Neural Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Signal Processing and Bioengineering.

Maayan is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Neuro-Engineering.

Shoshana has completed her Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, with a specialization in Nano technology and Biology.

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Sammy Apsel's main focus of research includes : measuring human brain blood flow using a variety of techniques like DCS(Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy), SCOS(Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy) and LSI(Laser Speckle Imaging). Furthermore, running MC(Monte Carlo) simulations in order to understand how light interacts with biological tissues in the brain. Sammy has completed his BSc in Electrical Engineering at the Technion in 2022, specializing in biological signal processing, image processing and communication. His primary interest lies in utilizing engineering tools to tackle biomedical challenges, and has completed his masters.