2025 Top viewed article recognition in Laser & Photonics Reviews for my article entitled: Roadmap on Label Free Super Resolution Imaging.

2025 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS. My scholarly contributions have placed you in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide.

2025 Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in FAU University, Erlangen, Germany.

2024 International Academic Awards (ACA) selection for Best Researcher Award in material science category.

2023 China National Talent 1000 Award program.

2023-2026 Mercator-Fellow of DFG funded research proposal entitled “Locally high-resolution photoacoustic tomography with contactless speckle vibration analysis,” with FAU, Erlangen, Germany

2023 The Edmund Optics Educational Award Finalist for fiber-based leakage detector experiment.

2022 Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in Oulu University, Finland.

2022 Excellence Service Award in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science, and Medicine given by INSO Professional Association, India.

2021 8400 Fellowship and Yad-HaNadiv Foundation grant for health entrepreneurship leadership program.

2021 Donisi Health (former CU-BX) which is based on a technology that I have co-invented is the first place winner of the 2021 OpenMed Innovation Competition which was part of the MEDinIsrael conference. CU-BX also won the vote to be named top Israeli innovator in smart mobility in an Israeli-Japanese pitch event.

2021 Donisi Health (former CU-BX), the startup I have co-funded and which is based on a technology I co-invented was selected by StartUp Insights to be one of the top 5 startups tackling AFib (out of 383 inspected startups).

2021  Cognifiber startup that I have co-funded made it for the semi-finalpitch competition award organized by EY.

2021   I was selected for the International Faculty Exchange Program (IFEP) as Guest Faculty/Visiting Faculty (Aug. 2021-Nov. 2021), Chandigarh Univ., Mohali, Punjab, India.

2021   The technology I co-invented and took part in developing, for remote bio-sensing which was commercialized to ContinUse Biometrcis/Donisi Health was selected to be one out of 8 finalists in Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Award. We also won the first place in Saint Gobain innovation challenge in automotive technologies that was held in Israel in October.

2021 ICI (Innovation in Cardiovascular Intervention) 2021 Innovation Award Winner with the technology I have co-invented and took part in developing on remote bio-sensing and which was commercialized to Donisi Health (CU-BX).

2021 Finalist of Bell Prize given by Bell Labs and Nokia. Selected as one of 8 finalists out of more than 200 applicants.

2021 E&T Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Contact free bio-sensing and diagnosis," which I co-invented, was selected to be one out of 3 Finalists in the categories of R&D, Digital Health and Social Care and Future Unicorn in the Engineering and Technology (E&T) Innovation Award of 2021.

2021 Distinguished Scientist Award in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine given by VDGOOD Professional Association during event on August in Trivandrum, India.

2021,22,23 Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania.

2020 Selected as SPIE Community Champion for my volunteerism with the society in 2019.

2020 MedTech Outlook magazine has selected ContinUse Biometrics (whos technology I co-invented) to be one of the "Top 10 Biosensor Solution Providers 2020". 

2020  MedTech Outlook magazine has selected Z square (whos technology I co-invented) to be one of “Top 10 endoscopy solution providers for 2020”: https://www.medicaltechoutlook.com/magazines/September2020/Endoscopy/?digitalmagazine#page=1

2020 3rd place in an international competition for engineering the future Menora for Hanuka. Abhijit Sanjeev (my PhD student) and myself have developed a holographic Menora for allowing remote 3D experience of light. The competition was organized by ministry for foreign afairs and the innovation center of JCE.

2020 E&T Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Combined treatment of light-based home-use device and special eye drops for removing the need of spectacles," which I co-invented was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the categories of Excellence in R&D and Future Unicorn in the Engineering and Technology (E&T) Innovation Award of 2020.

2020 Amity Global Academic Excellence Award for my contribution in the field of Optical Computing given at the International Conference on Intelligent Engineering and Management (ICIEM-2020) organized by IEEE and held in London (UK), April 2020.

2019  ContinUse Biometrics startup which I co-founded and which is based on a technology that I have co-invented, won the first place prize of the Sompo Digital Lab Challenge at Ecomotion, Tel-Aviv.

2019 ContinUse Biometrics startup which I co-founded and which is based on a technology that I have co-invented, won the 2019 Mobility EXPO in Japan.

2019 Appreciation trophy for keynote speakers at the 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO 2019), Budva, Montenegro (June 2019).

2019 Appreciation trophy for invited speakers at the International Workshop on Optoelectronic Perception (IWOP) 2019, Xian, China (June 2019).

2019 Appreciation trophy for plenary speakers at the International Conference on Optics and Electro-Optics (ICOL-2019), Dehradun, India (Oct. 2019).

2019 IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Non-contact, remote and continuous photonic sensing of hemodynamic activity in the brain," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the category of Start-Up and Information Technology in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2019 (out of more than 360 candidates).

2018 Top 10 Finalist of the 4YFN Awards to Identify Best International Startup received for co-inventing and technological leading the in-fiber optical computing technology which was commercialized to CogniFiber.

2018 The startup Cognifiber which commercialized the technology that I have co-invented at BIU entered the prestigious Intel startups accelerator program.

2018 The startup Fibrixense which commercialized the technology that I have co-invented at BIU entered the Power Camp of the Design Terminal Accelerator in Hungary as one of top 15 startups out of more than 125 submissions. Right after the camp our technology was one out of the 6 winners that were accepted to the mentoring program of the accelerator.

2018 Gartner has selected the eye drops technology for correcting vision which I have co-invented to be included in Gartner’s Top 100 Emerging Technology Report.

2018 MedTech Innovator’s Top 50 Companies selected ContinUse Biometrics which I have co-founded. http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/medtech-innovator-announces-50-leading-startups-selected-for-2018-showcase-and-acceleratorrecord-breaking-700-applications-for-2018-program-from-34-countries-1026882737

2018 Allied Health member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES).

2018 The technology I co-invented and which was commercialized to ContіnUse Bіometrіcs was selected to the Top 100 Science Spinoffs and has entered 2% out of 5,000 global science spinoffs according to the criteria of: uniqueness of the technology/product, high commercial potential and positive impact to the humanity’s well-being.

2018 NWO (Nederlandse Orgnisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) Visitors Travel Award received to visit Prof. Oded Raz at the Eindhoven University of Technology in order to collaborate on optical encryption system approaching closer the noise level and the quantum communication limits and enhancing the electronic-to-optical conversion efficiencies.

2018 A technology I co-invented was commercialized to a startup company called Nano Drops solving many vision problems and need for spectacles with eye drops. The technology was chosen as one out of 35 technologies inspiring the world: “35 ways Israel inspired the world in 2018,”  https://www.israel21c.org/35-ways-israel-inspired-the-world-in-2018/

2018  Best Research Work Award given to our paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society for Vision and Eye Research: D. Smadja, M. Lellouche, M. Krauthammer, Y. Harel, A. Abulafia, D. Zadok and Z. Zalevsky, “Nano-drops for correcting refractive errors,”

2018 Indian Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery Convention (IIRSI) gold medal award given for the presentation of the work preseted at the IIRSI Convention, Chennai, India: D. Smadja, Z. Zalevsky and J. P. Lellouche, “Nanotechnologies and Visual Correction, the next step?,”

2017 Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

2017 Finalist for the Prism award of SPIE for photonic innovation for co-inventing the remote laser based continues bio-monitoring and authentication technology being developed by ContinUse Biometrics.

2017 Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Award Finalist in the category of Device Characterization with the solution of “Photonic Integrated Circuitry Sensor for Remote Sensing and Characterization Of Devices' Malfunctioning” (I have received the second place from all candidates in my category. There were 3 finalists chosen in this category). http://www.picawards.net/vote

2017 Our remote photonic bio-sensing technology that was commercialized to ContinUse Biometrics was chosen to be one of eight Finalists of iNNOVEX Disrupt 2017 competition (out of 120 submissions).

2017 Selected by Marquis Who's Who for the 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Award.

2017 IHEL Award for homeland security research on “Remote detection of terrorists hiding in underground attack tunnels”

2017 Short term visiting fellowship award given by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) for the project of "Microfluidic Lab on a Chip for Novel Biomedical Applications,”

2017 Top 20 Finalist of the Photonics Award at Startup World, Munich, Germany with our solution for ultra-thin endoscopy technology (Z square medical).

2017 Advances in Engineering Prestigious Key Scientific Article Certificate for our following papers which were identified as a key scientific article contributing to research excellence in science and engineering (invited articles are less than 0.1% of the whole published literature):

• “Silicon based mechanic-photonic wavelength converter for infrared photo-detection,”
• “Analysis of photonic noise generated due to Kerr nonlinearity in silicon ring resonators,”

2017 UK-Israel Science Lectureship Award received to visit Prof. Kishan Dholakia at the Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, to lecture on my research on extended depth of focus and super resolution and to establish collaboration.

2017 The technology that I have co-invented and took part in developing and which was commercialized to ContinUse Biometrics was chosen by CBinsight (the top market intelligence platform of VC community) to be included in the top 40 (out of 2000) companies globally (including all categories) presenting at CBInsights A-ha! Conference in the Demo Day.

2017 ICI 2017 Innovation Award finalist (one out of 9 finalists which were selected out of more than 30 submissions) with the micro-endoscopy technology I have co-invented and took part in developing and which was commercialized to Zsquare.

2017 Appreciation trophy for plenary speakers at the ICAOP-2017 (International Conference on Advances in Optics and Photonics (XLI conference of the optical society of India), Hisar, India (Nov. 2017).

2017 IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Non-contact and continues optical sensor for authentication and bio-sensing," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the category of Emerging Technology Design in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2017 (out of more than 300 candidates).

2016, 2019 ICO Traveling Lecture Award to visit and lecture in Uzbekistan Republic in March 2016; and to visit and lecture in Lima, Peru in March 2019.

2016, 2017 Certificate of recognition given by ACS publications for serving we reviewer to ACS publications during the calendar year of 2015 and then for the year of 2016.

2016 Tubitak Bideb 2221 Fellowship for Visiting Scientists Award given by Tubitak (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).

2016-2024 Traveling Lecturer for OSA's Centennial. Funded lecturing visit to the University of Riga, Latvia on March 2016; to Saratov Russia on September 2016; to University of Oulu, Finland on June 2017, to Dehradun, India on Oct. 2019, to Chandigarh, India on Oct. 2024.

2016 Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in the University of Valencia, Spain.

2016 SPIE Startup Challenge Semi-Finalist (25 out of few hundreds of entries) for our smart clothing (FabriXense) project.

2016 One out of 10 Finalists of BOLEO (business opportunity in Israeli lasers and electro optics) startup competition, Lev academic Center, Jerusalem, Feb. 2016.

2016 Our technology of “Non-contact wearable continues in-blood glucose concentration sensor” was chosen to be one out of 3 Finalists of the Innovative solutions for accurate measure and real-time control of glucose level by Moscow professional sports athletes (out of overall of 38 submissions).

2016 The remote laser based sensing and authentication technology which I co-invented was selected as one out of 50 top innovators in the 11th annual New England Venture Summit, Boston, Dec. 7th 2016.

2016 Finalist (one out of 5) for the Geek Time Award for the CTO of the year (2016).

https://www.geektime.com/2017/01/26/here-were-the-winners-of-geektimes-geek-awards-2017-the-best-of-israels-startup-scene/

2016 German Berthold Leibinger innovation prize nominee distinction award in applied laser technology: Finalist of the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis for 2016, for the prize worthy development work in applied laser technology entitled “Laser Based Remote Bio-Sensing and Authentication,” Ditzingen, Germany.

2016 IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Non-contact and continues optical sensor for authentication and bio-sensing," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the categories of Emerging Technology Design and Start-up in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2016 (out of more than 300 candidates).

2015 Second place winner for the Hot Seat Startup Pitch Session of IEEE IoT Startup Event (Tel Aviv, Aug. 2015) was given to my pitch for FabriXense on Unified Biometric Sensor Embedded in Fabrics.

2015 Our paper by C. Abraham, Y. Beiderman, N. Ozana, F. Tenner, M. Schmidt, M. Sanz, J. Garcia and Z. Zalevsky, “Photonic non-contact estimation of blood lactate level,” Biomedical Optics Express 6*(10), 4144-4153 (2015)*; was nominated and selected to be featured in OSA Spotlight on Optics (only two per month are selected out of hundreds of published papers).

2015 SPIE Startup Challenge Finalist Award (6 out of more than few hundred of entries) for the glucose monitoring (“Opto-Care”) project.

2015 Forbes Magazine has selected our cornea tactile stimulating contact lens as one of the 12 most promising Israeli technologies that will change the lives of the disabled in 2015:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackmiller/2015/01/20/12-israeli-technologies-changing-the-lives-of-the-disabled-in-2015/3/

2015 The optical heartbeat monitor that I have co-invented was selected to be one of Israel's Top 5 Tech Inventions of 2015. https://www.rebelmouse.com/_articles/israels-top-5-tec-1460746096.html

2015  Certificate of appreciation given by the journal of Biomedical Optical for extensive service as a reviewer during the calendar year of 2014, 2015 and 2017.

2015 Our blind sight technology allowing blind people to “see” via spatial tactile stimulation of their cornea (IC-Touch technology) was granted to take part in the A3I (Accelerating Inclusion in Israel) program (12 technological ideas were selected out of more than 70 submissions).

2015-18 SPIE visiting lecturer program. As part pf the program was invited to lecture in the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (Nov. 2015); Xi'an Institute of Optics & Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China (Sep. 2016), OPTO 2017 conference in Warsaw, Poland (July 2017); The 13th Int. Conf. “Correlation Optics 2017”, Chernivtsi, Ukraine (Sep. 2017); Switzerland, EPFL (June 2018).

2015 Global Innovation Award finalist with our technological solution “FabriXense -Smart biosensing clothing” (one out of 9 finalists that were selected out of 181 considered applications).

2015 Our solution on remote photonic biomedical sensing that was commercialized from Bar Ilan to ContinUse Biometrics was shosen to be one out of ten finalists of Geektime Conference (out of more than 500 submissions) organized on 21.10.2015 at Habima, Tel-Aviv. It was rated as the second place out of the ten finalists.

2015 The project “Disposable Multi-Functional Endoscope for Nano Therapy,” was selected by the ENATRANS EU consortium and its Nanomedicine Translation Advisory Board (TAB) for the Stage I of the TAB, the first European nanomedicine accelerator.

2015   The Israel-EU Annual HAMSA Award for receiving the EU Marie Curie grant as the supervisor of Dr. Yair Rivenson as visiting fellow in the group.

2015 Semi-Finalist of the DigitalHealth.il Start-Up Contest on Nov. 2015 organized by EY Israel, Start-Up Nation Central, Veritas and IATI with our smart clothing technology (FabriXense).

2015 Our technological solution “Home-use Cancer Detecting Band Aid” was chosen to be among the Finalists of the International Wearable Technologies (WT) Innovation World Cup 2015 Award in the category of Healthcare & Wellness (selected out of about 450 submissions).

2015 **Christians for Israel Chair in Medical Research **awarded for the academic year of 2013/2014 for my research on Non-Contact Photonic Biomedical Diagnostics and Sensing of Diseases.

2015 IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Smart bio-sensing clothing," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the categories of Emerging Technology Design and Manufacturing Technology in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2015 (out of more than 300 candidates).

2014 SPIE Startup Challenge Finalist Award (8 out of more than few hundred of entries, 20 of which have advanced to semi-finals) for the microendoscopy project.

2014 Semi-finalist of the international Big C Competition. Our work for a non contact photonic device for melanoma and breast cancer monitoring was selected to be semi-finalist of the international Big C Competition (one out of the best 160 entries out of more than 750 submissions).

2014 One out of the two nominees of the faculty of engineering for the Bar Ilan University best lecturer award for 2014.

2014 The paper entitled “Improved noncontact optical sensor for detection of glucose concentration and for indication of dehydration level,” was selected as “Top Biophotonics Stories of 2014” by the Biophotonics journal: http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=57009

2014 Our technological solution “FabriXense -Smart biosensing clothing” was chosen to be among the Finalists of the International Wearable Technologies (WT) Innovation World Cup 2014 Award in the category of Smart Clothing (selected out of more than 500 submissions).

2014 One out of the 7 runners up for the Untold News Award that won the “People's Choice" Award for the most important/best invention with the tactile bionic contact lens that lets the blind "see" through touch.

2014  IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Homecare sensor for early detection of melanoma and breast cancer," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the categories of Emerging Technologies in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2014 (out of more than 400 candidates).

2013 Certificate of appreciation given by the journal of Optical Engineering for extensive service as a reviewer during the calendar year of 2012.

2013 The Universal Biotech Innovation Prize finalist for the microendoscope invention (top 12 finalists out of 255 international submissions).

2013 Finalist of the 2013 EURETINA Science & Medicine Innovation Awards for spatially dependent PPG signal extraction from the retina (1 out of 6 finalists).

2013 Our invention that provides blind people the capability to “see” by tactile stimulation of their cornea was selected to be one out of the top 10 incredible Israeli advances in vision (invention #6): http://israel21c.org/health/top-10-incredible-israeli-advances-in-vision/as well as in: http://nocamels.com/2014/07/sci-fi-the-top-ten-israeli-inventions-that-allow-the-blind-to-see/

2013 Journal’s Top Downloaded Paper Award. The paper “All-optical silicon simplified passive modulation,” by R. Aharoni, O. Baharav, L. Bidani, M. Sinvani, D. Elbaz, Z. Zalevsky was rated as the second most downloaded paper in JEOS:RP journal during the period of 2011 and 2012.

2013 The Israel-EU Annual HAMSA Award for winning the BiophotonicsPlus Competition of the EU on the topic of “Minimally invasive photoplethysmograhy (PPG) measurements”.

2013, 2019 OSA Fellow Travel Award to visit and lecture in Kyrgyz Republic in March 2013; and to visit Lima Peru in March 2019.

2013 Our solution “Contact lens display” was chosen to be among the 12 Finalists of the Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup 2013 Award (selected out of more than 600 submissions).

2013 Our solution “Contact lens Display” was chosen to be among the finalists of The Phone as a Wearable Hub Award – partnered by Intel.

2013 The Tesla Award for Outstanding Technical Communication on Electro-Optics.

2012 Finalist of the Robotdalen international innovation award in robotics for his activity in developing robotic platform for automated search and rescue missions of humans in fire, Sweden 2012.

2012 Newest and most innovative research award/Hot topic award of ARVO for paper entitled “Electro-Mechanical Tactile Corneal Stimulation System for Vision Substitution,” that was presented in the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), in Florida on May 2012. It was selected by the annual meeting program committee as emerging trend and hot topic abstract which is the newest and most innovative research being conducted by researchers in the various specialties presented in ARVO (only about 5% out of more than 6000 presented abstracts are selected).

2012 German Berthold Leibinger innovation prize nominee distinction award in applied laser technology: Finalist of the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis for 2012, for the prize worthy development work in applied laser technology entitled “Laser based simultaneous remote biomedical monitoring,” Ditzingen, Germany.

2012 IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “A new principle for remote continuous monitoring of intraocular pressure variation," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the categories of Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Technologies in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2012 (out of more than 420 candidates).

2012 Selected to be one out of 50 most prolific authors of Applied Optics journal: was ranked 15th in the top 50 most-published authors in Applied Optics. The selection was made as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the journal:  http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/journal/ao/anniversary/50mostpublished.cfm

2011 Best paper competition finalists in the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) 2011: Two papers were chosen as the finalists in the competition (1 of top 10 papers): 

• ULSI Copper and Silver Interconnect Microstructure Based Image Enhancement Algorithm,” by H. Duadi, P. Livshits, E. Gur, A. Inberg, Y. Shacham-Diamand, A. Weiss and Z. Zalevsky
• Improved algorithm for automated alignment of wafers via optimized features location,” by M. Parshin and Z. Zalevsky

2011 Ramon Technological Breakthrough Contest: semi finalist.

2011 The work on remote sensing of biomedical parameters was selected as one out of the “100 out of box thinking Israeli inventions exhibition” being presented in the Bloomfield science museum in Jerusalem. This invention called the optical heartbeat monitor was selected as Israel's top 45 greatest inventions of all time 

http://www.israel21c.org/technology/israels-top-45-greatest-inventions-of-all-time

http://www.jewishledger.com/2011/10/innovations-inc-israels-50-greatest-inventions/

2010 The international Huber water technology prize: 1 of top 10 research finalists.

2009 Selected by the Israeli financial journal TheMarker as One out of 7 outstanding & promising young Israeli researchers:                                   http://www.themarker.com/markets/1.524871

2009 Finalist for the Prism award of SPIE for photonic innovation for inventing the extended depth of focus technology for ophthalmic applications being developed by Xceed Imaging.

2009 Diploma of honor awarded in remembrance of eminent contribution to the optical meeting of ICO-Photonics in Delphi 2009.

2009 Inclusion in the Who’s Who in the World 2009 (26th edition); Inclusion in the commemorative 30th Pearl Anniversary Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World; Inclusion in the Who's Who in the World 2014 (31st Edition); Inclusion in the Who's Who in the World 2015 (32nd Edition); Inclusion in the Who's Who in the World 2018 Edition.

2008 LaserFocusWorld commendation award for excellence in technical communications for his paper entitled: "Optical imaging resolves beyond the diffraction limit," in Laser Focus World, 97-100 (April 2008).

2005  Zalevsky was one of the inventors of the optical sensor of the gaming technology module of the Kinect (http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/WO2007043036). The machine learning work on human motion capture within Kinect won the 2011 MacRobert Award for engineering innovation. Kinect Won T3's "Gadget of the Year" award for 2011. It also won the "Gaming Gadget of the Year" prize. ‘Microsoft Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit' was ranked second in "The 10 Most Innovative Tech Products of 2011" at Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards ceremony in New York City. It was selected by MIT technological review as one of world's 50 most innovative companies for 2011 (Kinect was developed by PrimeSense which was sold to Apple).

2004, 2019  Principle Investigator short term visiting award for 3 months visit stay given by the Valencian state, Spain to visit Prof. Javier Garcia at the Univ. of Valencia.

1998 Selected to be the nominee for the Israeli air force commander technology prize for contribution to the development of “Blue Sky” project.

1994  Tel - Aviv's University Dean’s award/fellowship.

2022

• Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in Oulu University, Finland.

• Excellence Service Award in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science, and Medicine given by INSO Professional Association, India.

2021

• 8400 Fellowship and Yad-HaNadiv Foundation grant for health entrepreneurship leadership program.

• Donisi Health (former CU-BX) which is based on a technology that I have co-invented is the first place winner of the 2021 OpenMed Innovation Competition which was part of the MEDinIsrael conference. CU-BX also won the vote to be named top Israeli innovator in smart mobility in an Israeli-Japanese pitch event.

• Donisi Health (former CU-BX), the startup I have co-funded and which is based on a technology I co-invented was selected by StartUp Insights to be one of the top 5 startups tackling AFib (out of 383 inspected startups).

• Cognifiber startup that I have co-funded made it for the semi-final pitch competition award organized by EY.

• I was selected for the International Faculty Exchange Program (IFEP) as Guest Faculty/Visiting Faculty (Aug. 2021–Nov. 2021), Chandigarh Univ., Mohali, Punjab, India.

• The technology I co-invented and took part in developing, for remote bio-sensing which was commercialized to ContinUse Biometrcis/Donisi Health was selected to be one out of 8 finalists in Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Award. We also won the first place in Saint Gobain innovation challenge in automotive technologies that was held in Israel in October.

• ICI (Innovation in Cardiovascular Intervention) 2021 Innovation Award Winner with the technology I have co-invented and took part in developing on remote bio-sensing and which was commercialized to Donisi Health (CU-BX).

• Finalist of Bell Prize given by Bell Labs and Nokia. Selected as one of 8 finalists out of more than 200 applicants.

• E&T Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Contact free bio-sensing and diagnosis," which I co-invented, was selected to be one out of 3 Finalists in the categories of R&D, Digital Health and Social Care and Future Unicorn in the Engineering and Technology (E&T) Innovation Award of 2021.

• Distinguished Scientist Award in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine given by VDGOOD Professional Association during event on August in Trivandrum, India.

• Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania (2021, 2022, 2023).

2020

• Selected as SPIE Community Champion for my volunteerism with the society in 2019.

• MedTech Outlook magazine has selected ContinUse Biometrics (whose technology I co-invented) to be one of the "Top 10 Biosensor Solution Providers 2020".

• MedTech Outlook magazine has selected Z square (whose technology I co-invented) to be one of “Top 10 endoscopy solution providers for 2020”:
  https://www.medicaltechoutlook.com/magazines/September2020/Endoscopy/?digitalmagazine#page=1

• 3rd place in an international competition for engineering the future Menora for Hanuka. Abhijit Sanjeev (my PhD student) and myself have developed a holographic Menora for allowing remote 3D experience of light. The competition was organized by ministry for foreign affairs and the innovation center of JCE.

• E&T Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Combined treatment of light-based home-use device and special eye drops for removing the need of spectacles," which I co-invented was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the categories of Excellence in R&D and Future Unicorn in the Engineering and Technology (E&T) Innovation Award of 2020.

• Amity Global Academic Excellence Award for my contribution in the field of Optical Computing given at the International Conference on Intelligent Engineering and Management (ICIEM-2020) organized by IEEE and held in London (UK), April 2020.

2019

• ContinUse Biometrics startup which I co-founded and which is based on a technology that I have co-invented, won the first place prize of the Sompo Digital Lab Challenge at Ecomotion, Tel-Aviv.

• ContinUse Biometrics startup which I co-founded and which is based on a technology that I have co-invented, won the 2019 Mobility EXPO in Japan.

• Appreciation trophy for keynote speakers at the 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO 2019), Budva, Montenegro (June 2019).

• Appreciation trophy for invited speakers at the International Workshop on Optoelectronic Perception (IWOP) 2019, Xian, China (June 2019).

• Appreciation trophy for plenary speakers at the International Conference on Optics and Electro-Optics (ICOL-2019), Dehradun, India (Oct. 2019).

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Non-contact, remote and continuous photonic sensing of hemodynamic activity in the brain," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the category of Start-Up and Information Technology in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2019 (out of more than 360 candidates).

• ICO Traveling Lecture Award to visit and lecture in Lima, Peru in March 2019 (also awarded 2016).

• OSA Fellow Travel Award to visit Lima, Peru in March 2019 (also awarded 2013).

• Principle Investigator short term visiting award for 3 months visit stay given by the Valencian state, Spain to visit Prof. Javier Garcia at the Univ. of Valencia (also awarded 2004).

2018

• Top 10 Finalist of the 4YFN Awards to Identify Best International Startup received for co-inventing and technological leading the in-fiber optical computing technology which was commercialized to CogniFiber.

• The startup Cognifiber which commercialized the technology that I have co-invented at BIU entered the prestigious Intel startups accelerator program.

• The startup Fibrixense which commercialized the technology that I have co-invented at BIU entered the Power Camp of the Design Terminal Accelerator in Hungary as one of top 15 startups out of more than 125 submissions. Right after the camp our technology was one out of the 6 winners that were accepted to the mentoring program of the accelerator.

• Gartner has selected the eye drops technology for correcting vision which I have co-invented to be included in Gartner’s Top 100 Emerging Technology Report.

• MedTech Innovator’s Top 50 Companies selected ContinUse Biometrics which I have co-founded.

• Allied Health member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES).

• The technology I co-invented and which was commercialized to ContіnUse Bіometrіcs was selected to the Top 100 Science Spinoffs and has entered 2% out of 5,000 global science spinoffs according to the criteria of: uniqueness of the technology/product, high commercial potential and positive impact to humanity’s well-being.

• NWO (Nederlandse Orgnisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) Visitors Travel Award received to visit Prof. Oded Raz at the Eindhoven University of Technology in order to collaborate on optical encryption system approaching closer the noise level and the quantum communication limits and enhancing the electronic-to-optical conversion efficiencies.

• A technology I co-invented was commercialized to a startup company called Nano Drops solving many vision problems and need for spectacles with eye drops. The technology was chosen as one out of 35 technologies inspiring the world: “35 ways Israel inspired the world in 2018”.

• Best Research Work Award given to our paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society for Vision and Eye Research: D. Smadja, M. Lellouche, M. Krauthammer, Y. Harel, A. Abulafia, D. Zadok and Z. Zalevsky, “Nano-drops for correcting refractive errors”.

• Indian Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery Convention (IIRSI) gold medal award given for the presentation of the work presented at the IIRSI Convention, Chennai, India: D. Smadja, Z. Zalevsky and J. P. Lellouche, “Nanotechnologies and Visual Correction, the next step?”.

2017

• Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

• Finalist for the Prism award of SPIE for photonic innovation for co-inventing the remote laser based continuous bio-monitoring and authentication technology being developed by ContinUse Biometrics.

• Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Award Finalist in the category of Device Characterization with the solution of “Photonic Integrated Circuitry Sensor for Remote Sensing and Characterization Of Devices' Malfunctioning” (2nd place).

• Our remote photonic bio-sensing technology that was commercialized to ContinUse Biometrics was chosen to be one of eight Finalists of iNNOVEX Disrupt 2017 competition (out of 120 submissions).

• Selected by Marquis Who's Who for the 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Award.

• IHEL Award for homeland security research on “Remote detection of terrorists hiding in underground attack tunnels”.

• Short term visiting fellowship award given by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) for the project of "Microfluidic Lab on a Chip for Novel Biomedical Applications”.

• Top 20 Finalist of the Photonics Award at Startup World, Munich, Germany with our solution for ultra-thin endoscopy technology (Z square medical).

• Advances in Engineering Prestigious Key Scientific Article Certificate for our papers identified as key contributions to research excellence (less than 0.1% of the published literature).

• UK-Israel Science Lectureship Award received to visit Prof. Kishan Dholakia at the Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, to lecture on my research on extended depth of focus and super resolution and to establish collaboration.

• The technology that I have co-invented and took part in developing and which was commercialized to ContinUse Biometrics was chosen by CBinsight to be included in the top 40 (out of 2000) companies globally presenting at CBInsights A-ha! Conference in the Demo Day.

• ICI 2017 Innovation Award finalist (one out of 9 finalists out of more than 30 submissions) with the micro-endoscopy technology commercialized to Zsquare.

• Appreciation trophy for plenary speakers at the ICAOP-2017 (International Conference on Advances in Optics and Photonics, Hisar, India, Nov. 2017).

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Non-contact and continuous optical sensor for authentication and bio-sensing," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the category of Emerging Technology Design in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2017 (out of more than 300 candidates).

2016

• ICO Traveling Lecture Award to visit and lecture in Uzbekistan Republic in March 2016 (also awarded 2019 in Peru).

• Certificate of recognition given by ACS publications for serving as reviewer during 2015 and 2016.

• Tubitak Bideb 2221 Fellowship for Visiting Scientists Award given by Tubitak (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).

• Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship for short visits to visit/lecture in the University of Valencia, Spain.

• SPIE Startup Challenge Semi-Finalist (25 out of few hundreds of entries) for our smart clothing (FabriXense) project.

• One out of 10 Finalists of BOLEO startup competition, Lev Academic Center, Jerusalem, Feb. 2016.

• Our technology of “Non-contact wearable continuous in-blood glucose concentration sensor” was chosen to be one out of 3 Finalists of the Innovative solutions for accurate measure and real-time control of glucose level by Moscow professional sports athletes.

• The remote laser based sensing and authentication technology which I co-invented was selected as one out of 50 top innovators in the 11th annual New England Venture Summit, Boston, Dec. 2016.

• Finalist (one out of 5) for the Geek Time Award for the CTO of the year (2016).

• German Berthold Leibinger innovation prize nominee distinction award in applied laser technology (Finalist 2016).

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Non-contact and continuous optical sensor for authentication and bio-sensing," was selected to be one out of five Finalists in the categories of Emerging Technology Design and Start-up in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award of 2016.

2015

• Second place winner for the Hot Seat Startup Pitch Session of IEEE IoT Startup Event (Tel Aviv, Aug. 2015) for FabriXense.

• “Photonic non-contact estimation of blood lactate level” paper (Biomedical Optics Express 2015) selected in OSA Spotlight on Optics.

• SPIE Startup Challenge Finalist Award (6 out of more than few hundred of entries) for the glucose monitoring (“Opto-Care”) project.

• Forbes Magazine selected our cornea tactile stimulating contact lens as one of the 12 most promising Israeli technologies changing lives of the disabled in 2015.

• The optical heartbeat monitor I co-invented was selected to be one of Israel's Top 5 Tech Inventions of 2015.

• Certificate of appreciation given by the journal of Biomedical Optical for extensive service as reviewer during 2014, 2015 and 2017.

• Our blind sight technology (IC-Touch) selected for A3I program (Accelerating Inclusion in Israel).

• SPIE visiting lecturer program (2015–18) – invited lectures in India, China, Poland, Ukraine, Switzerland.

• Global Innovation Award finalist with “FabriXense -Smart biosensing clothing” (1 out of 9 finalists).

• Remote photonic biomedical sensing (ContinUse Biometrics) finalist of Geektime Conference 2015 (2nd place).

• The project “Disposable Multi-Functional Endoscope for Nano Therapy” selected by ENATRANS EU consortium Nanomedicine TAB Stage I.

• Israel-EU Annual HAMSA Award for receiving EU Marie Curie grant (supervisor of Dr. Yair Rivenson).

• Semi-Finalist of the DigitalHealth.il Start-Up Contest (Nov. 2015) with FabriXense.

• “Home-use Cancer Detecting Band Aid” chosen as Finalist in WT Innovation World Cup 2015 Award, Healthcare & Wellness category.

• Christians for Israel Chair in Medical Research awarded for academic year 2013/2014.

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. The work entitled “Smart bio-sensing clothing," was selected as one out of five Finalists.

2014

• SPIE Startup Challenge Finalist Award for the microendoscopy project.

• Semi-finalist of the international Big C Competition with non contact photonic device for melanoma and breast cancer monitoring.

• Nominee of the faculty of engineering for the Bar Ilan University best lecturer award.

• Paper “Improved noncontact optical sensor for detection of glucose concentration and for indication of dehydration level” selected as “Top Biophotonics Stories of 2014”.

• “FabriXense -Smart biosensing clothing” chosen as Finalist in WT Innovation World Cup 2014, Smart Clothing category.

• Runner up for Untold News Award + “People's Choice" Award with tactile bionic contact lens.

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry. Work entitled “Homecare sensor for early detection of melanoma and breast cancer” finalist.

2013

• Certificate of appreciation given by the journal of Optical Engineering for extensive service as a reviewer during the calendar year of 2012.

• The Universal Biotech Innovation Prize finalist for the microendoscope invention (top 12 finalists out of 255 international submissions).

• Finalist of the 2013 EURETINA Science & Medicine Innovation Awards for spatially dependent PPG signal extraction from the retina (1 out of 6 finalists).

• Our invention that provides blind people the capability to “see” by tactile stimulation of their cornea was selected to be one out of the top 10 incredible Israeli advances in vision (invention #6).

• Journal’s Top Downloaded Paper Award. The paper “All-optical silicon simplified passive modulation” was rated as the second most downloaded paper in JEOS:RP during 2011–2012.

• The Israel-EU Annual HAMSA Award for winning the BiophotonicsPlus Competition of the EU on the topic of “Minimally invasive photoplethysmography (PPG) measurements”.

• OSA Fellow Travel Award to visit and lecture in Kyrgyz Republic in March 2013 (also awarded in 2019 for Peru).

• Our solution “Contact lens display” was chosen among 12 Finalists of the Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup 2013 Award.

• Our solution “Contact lens Display” was also finalist of The Phone as a Wearable Hub Award – partnered by Intel.

• The Tesla Award for Outstanding Technical Communication on Electro-Optics.

2012

• Finalist of the Robotdalen international innovation award in robotics (Sweden) for automated search and rescue missions.

• Newest and most innovative research award/Hot topic award of ARVO for paper “Electro-Mechanical Tactile Corneal Stimulation System for Vision Substitution”.

• German Berthold Leibinger innovation prize nominee distinction award in applied laser technology: Finalist for “Laser based simultaneous remote biomedical monitoring,” Ditzingen, Germany.

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry for “A new principle for remote continuous monitoring of intraocular pressure variation”.

• Inclusion in the Who’s Who in the World (2009, 2014, 2015, 2018).

• Selected to be one out of 50 most prolific authors of Applied Optics journal: ranked 15th in the top 50 most-published authors in Applied Optics.

2011

• Best paper competition finalists in the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) 2011 (two papers).

• Ramon Technological Breakthrough Contest: semi finalist.

• The optical heartbeat monitor selected for “100 out of box thinking Israeli inventions exhibition” at Bloomfield science museum, Jerusalem. Also ranked in Israel's top 45 greatest inventions of all time.

2010

• The international Huber water technology prize: 1 of top 10 research finalists.

2009

• Selected by the Israeli financial journal TheMarker as one out of 7 outstanding & promising young Israeli researchers.

• Finalist for the Prism award of SPIE for photonic innovation (extended depth of focus technology for ophthalmic applications, Xceed Imaging).

• Diploma of honor awarded in remembrance of eminent contribution to the optical meeting of ICO-Photonics in Delphi 2009.

• Inclusion in the Who’s Who in the World 2009 (26th edition).

2008

• LaserFocusWorld commendation award for excellence in technical communications for the paper Optical imaging resolves beyond the diffraction limit, Laser Focus World, April 2008.

2005

• Zalevsky was one of the inventors of the optical sensor of the gaming technology module of the Kinect.
  The machine learning work on human motion capture within Kinect won the 2011 MacRobert Award for engineering innovation.
  Kinect also won T3's "Gadget of the Year" (2011), "Gaming Gadget of the Year", ranked 2nd in Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards 2011, and was listed by MIT Technological Review as one of the world's 50 most innovative companies for 2011.

2004, 2019

• Principle Investigator short term visiting award for 3 months visit stay given by the Valencian state, Spain to visit Prof. Javier Garcia at the Univ. of Valencia.

1998

• Selected to be the nominee for the Israeli Air Force Commander Technology Prize for contribution to the development of the “Blue Sky” project.

1994

• Tel-Aviv University Dean’s award/fellowship.

2024

• North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS) 2024 Pilot Grant together with Dr. Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen on “Non-Invasive Identification of Alzheimer’s Disease Through Ocular Analysis Utilizing Raman Spectroscopy.”

2018

• BINA-INL bilateral research award on hyper spectral imaging in silicon based on MEMS.

2017

• Cisco Innovation Grant Award for project entitled “Stealthy optical communications forcing on-the-fly optical decryption,” done in collaboration with Dan Sadot from BGU as co-PI.

• Zsquare (a startup company I have co-founded) was awarded a $120K Microsoft Prize for startup companies.

2015

• Marie Curie Award granted to Yair Rivenson as visiting fellow in the group of Zalevsky as the host for a one-year visit during 2017/2018.

2013

• BiophotonicsPlus competition Award of the European Competition for Collaborative R&D Funding on photonic appliances for life sciences and health. Awarded to Zeev Zalevsky on the topic of “Minimally invasive photoplethysmography (PPG) measurements.”

2011

• PianoPlus competition Award of the European commission on photonics-based internet access networks of the future. Awarded to Zeev Zalevsky on the topic of “Filters and optical spectrum analyzer for access networks of the future.”

2009

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) exploratory/developmental research grant Award (together with Hamutal Slovin as co-PI) for “Novel nano-pipette for imaging of deep cortal layers and deep brain structures.”

2023

• Doron Duadi has received the KLA prize for research excellence.

2022

• Nadav Shabairou has received the KLA prize for research excellence.

2019

• Best poster award of the ISMBE 2019 conference on biomedical engineering, Haifa, Israel for work entitled: “Neural Activation Threshold Reduction Using 3D micro-well Electrodes: Towards a High-Resolution Hybrid Retinal Prosthesis,” by G. Shpun, N. Farah, E. Lasnoy, A. Markus, Z. Zalevsky and Y. Mandel.

• Nisan Ozana has received the Rector prize for excellence in research.

2018

• Nisan Ozana was selected to receive the Prof. Rahamimoff Travel Grant of the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) travel grant for Young Scientists on the topic of Remote Photonic Sensing of Brain Activity.

• The project on beam shaped ultra sound submitted by Tali Ilovitsh for the Marie Curie Fellowship in the group received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence.

• Nisan Ozana has received the Wolf award for research students for his Ph.D research on remote laser based bio-medical sensing.

• Gal Shpun and Itai Henn received the best poster award given by Nano Letters in the international Neural interface 2018 conference for the poster entitled: “Photolithography & 3D Nano-printing Combination for 3D Vision Restoration Implant,” by G. Shpun, I. Henn, Y. Chemla, N. Farah, Z. Zalevsky and Y. Mandel.

• Best student poster award (1st place) in the LALS conference was given to the work entitled: “Optical configuration of skin hydration detection by temporal analysis of skin speckle patterns,” by Y. Sabari, N. Ozana and Z. Zalevsky.

• Niv Gorodesky was the second place runner up in the international IET young students’ competition where he presented the research work done in the group on LIFT and metallic glasses. The competition was held in the LALS conference.

2017

• Best student poster award in the OASIS conference (the main optics and electro optics event in Israel taking place every 2 years) was given to the work entitled: “Remote Glucose Sensing using Time varied Speckle Patterns,” by N. Ozana, A. Schwarz, R. Califa, A. Shemer, S. Polani, J. Garcia and Z. Zalevsky.

• Yossi Danan has received the Rector prize for excellence in research.

2016

• Tomer Yeminy has received the Katzir travel award for Ph.D students that funded his short research stay in the U.S at the lab of Alan Willner.

• Asaf Illovitsh received the Velvalle fund prize for research work related to the world of military intelligence for our research paper entitled “Super resolved passive imaging of remote moving object on top of sparse unknown background,” by A. Ilovitsh and Z. Zallevsky that appeared in Appl. Opt. 53, 6340-6343 (2014).

2015

• Aviya Bennett received Intel Excellence Award for graduate students for her master research on “Fast Optoelectronic Responsivity of novel MOS nanostructures.”

• Best student poster award in the OASIS conference (the main optics and electro optics event in Israel taking place every 2 years) was given to the work entitled: “Optical Realization of the Radon Transform,” by T. Ilovitsh, A. Ilovitsh, J. Sheridan and Z. Zalevsky.

• Tali Ilovitsh has received the Rector prize for excellence in research.

2014

• Our entrepreneurship project (together with Hagai Ligomeski and Asaf Shahmoon) entitled “Optical reader for early detection of foot having increased risk to develop diabetic ulcer” won the first place in the AcademicTec Competition founded by the ministry of commerce/economics.

• A technology that I have invented and developed (an optical lens integrating a micro mirrors array and which allows an imager to significantly increase its field of view), and which was funded by the ministry of defense received The Technological Excellence Award given by the Israeli Chief of Staff. The award was given to Major Itshak Layani who was the project manager of this research activity in the ministry of defense.

2013

• The joint research work of the Ph.D studies of Asaf Shahmoon entitled “Photonic Devices Based Sub-Micron Structures for Tunable Applications and for Bio-Sensing,” awarded Asaf Shahmoon the European international Photonics21 Student Innovation award (he won the award out of around 200 submissions from all around the world).

2012

• Asaf Shahmoon has received the Rector prize for excellence in research.

• The project on remote detection of biomedical parameters, in which Zeev Zalevsky supervised a high school student Roy Tal-Yosef, was awarded a commendation prize for reaching the 6th place out of the 50 finalists (selected out of hundreds of participants) in the Israeli national young scientists and developers competition held in the Bloomfield science museum in Jerusalem. This work and technological invention was also chosen to represent Israel in the international EU science competition in Slovakia.

2020

• Dr. Nisan Ozana received a postdoctoral fellowship in Harvard medical school, Boston, USA

2019

• Dr. Omer Wagner received a Blavatnik award for a post doc stay in Cambridge, UK

2016

• Dr. Tali Ilovitsh received a Postdoctoral Fellow in School of Medicine, in University of California, Davis and then in Stanford University, USA

• Dr. Asaf Ilovitsh received a Postdoctoral Fellow in School of Medicine, in University of California, Davis, USA

2014

• Dr. Amihai Meiri received an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in the University of Utah, USA

2013

• Dr. Asaf Shahmoon received a Minerva post doc fellowship in Germany