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Professional Activities

2025

  • Conference general co-chair of Computing, Communication and Sensor Network (CCSN2025) Conference, New Delhi, India, Sep. 2025

  • Conference co-chair of SPIE conference DS109 on Computational Imaging VIII, Orlando, USA. April 2025

  • Wolf prize nominator for 2025

2024

  • Scientific committee member, Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO), June 2024, Montenegro

  • Technical program committee member, Optica Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging, June 2024, Paestrum, Italy

  • Program chair of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications (ICAIA) in 2023, 2024

2023

  • General Chair in imaging systems (IS) topical conference of OSA, in Boston, August 2023

  • General co-chair of Advances in Optical Neuroimaging, CLEO (May 2023)

  • Editorial Board member of the Journal of Optics published by the Optical Society of India in collaboration with M/s Springer. April 2023

  • Conference co-chair of Special Symposium on Advances in Neurophotonics at IPC (Nov. 2023)

2022

  • General Chair of SPIE conference on tissue optics and photonics, Photonics Europe 2022, Strasbourg, France (Conf. 12147)

  • Program Chair in imaging systems (IS) topical conference of OSA, Vancouver, July 2022

  • General co-chair of Deep Sensing and Super-Resolution panel, CLEO (May 2022)

  • Session chair in Laser Applications in Life Sciences (LALS), Nancy, France, April 2022

  • Co-chair of Special Symposium on Advances in Neurophotonics at IPC (Nov. 2022)

  • Receiving Editor of Journal of Optics and Laser Technology (2022-2025)

  • SPIE Publication committee member (2021–2024)

2021

  • General co-chair of Quantum sensing and super resolution symposium at CLEO (May 2021)

  • Topic chair of special session on Deep Tissue Imaging and Quantum Sensing at IPC (Oct. 2021)

  • Editor in Chief of the Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI) of SPIE (2021–2026)

  • SPIE Publication committee member (2021–2024)

  • Official Nominator for the 2021 VinFuture Prize

2020

  • General Chair of SPIE conference on tissue optics and photonics, Photonics Europe 2020, Strasbourg, France (April 2020, digital)

  • Editorial Board Membership for the Open Biomedical Engineering Journal, Jan. 2020

  • Editorial Board member of eLight journal, Springer Nature

  • Lead topical editor for JOSA A/B journal on topic of LIDARs

  • General program committee member of VIII SYMPOSIUM ON OPTICS & BIOPHOTONICS, Saratov, Russia (Sep. 2020)

  • Senior Editor of IEEE Access Journal (2020–present)

2019

  • Member of the organizing/technical steering committee of IEEE COMCAS conference in Tel-Aviv, November 2019

  • Co-general chair of Medi Nano in Athens (2016), Lyon (2013), Tel-Aviv (2015), Athens (2016) → (המשך רצף עד 2019)

  • Member of the OSA, Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Committee (March 2019–Feb. 2021)

  • Member of the International Advisory Committee in International Conference on Optics and Electro-Optics (ICOL-2019), Dehradun, India

  • Guest editor for special issue in the journal of Applied Sciences following LALS conference (Feb. 2019)

  • International Fiber Lasers and Applications (IFLA) conference organizing committee (April 2019)

2018

  • Technical program committee member of the International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Pittsburgh, May 2018

  • Program committee member of SPIE OSD05 Computational Optics, Frankfurt, May 2018

  • Technical Program Committee member of Computational Imaging III conference SPIE (April 2018)

  • Session chair in SPIE conference #10479: Photonic Diagnosis and Treatment of Infections and Inflammatory Diseases, Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb. 2018

  • Session chair in Advanced Materials World Congress (AMWC), Singapore, Feb. 2018

  • Technical Program Committee member of Data Sciences Conference part of SPIE Photonics West (Feb. 2018)

  • General conference chair of Laser Applications in Life Sciences (LALS), Ramat-Gan, Nov. 2018

  • Member of LALS international advisory board

  • Member of the 2018 NAI Fellows Advisory Committee (NAIFAC)

  • Member of the International Advisory Committee of Photonics 2018, New Delhi, India

2017

  • General Chair in Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) topical conference of OSA, San Francisco, July 2017

  • Committee member of Information Photonics meeting (IP'17), OPIC2017, Yokohama, Japan, April 2017

  • Technical program committee member of International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Stanford, May 2017

  • Guest Editor of Applied Optics feature issue on “Imaging and Applied Optics” following COSI 2017 conference chairing in San Francisco

  • Session chair in EAMC conference, Sweden, Aug. 2017

2016

  • Program Chair in Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) topical conference of OSA, Heidelberg, July 2016

  • Session chair of SPIE conference 9716 on Optical Methods in Developmental Biology IV, Photonics West, Feb. 2016

  • Technical committee member of SPIE conference 9720 on High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy, Photonics West, Feb. 2016

  • Technical program committee member for IEEE Photonics Conference on Biophotonics, Hawaii, Oct. 2016

  • Guest Editor of Applied Optics special issue on Modern Imaging following COSI 2016 conference chairing in Germany

2015

  • ICIS General Chair (Tel-Aviv, 2014, listed in 2015 publications)

  • Guest Editor for Applied Optics journal special issue on Imaging Systems and Signal Recovery (2015)

  • Guest Editor of Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST), special issue of ICIS 2015

  • Associate Editor for Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST) (2015–present)

  • Associate Editor of Optics Express (2014–2020, continued in 2015)

  • Head of the iNNOVEX Technical Program Committee (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)

  • Session chair in ISVER (Israeli Society for Vision and Eye Research): March 2015

  • Program committee member in imaging systems (IS) and Computational Sensing and Imaging (COSI) topical conference of OSA, Arlington, June 2015

  • Session chair in imaging systems (IS), Arlington, June 2015

  • Program committee member of SPIE conference OSD05 on Computational Optics, Jena (Sep. 2015)

  • International scientific committee member of the 37th annual international conference of the IEEE EMBS, Milano (Aug. 2015)

  • Special issue editor of the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (2015)

2014

  • General chair in imaging systems (IS) topical conference of OSA, Seattle, July 2014

  • Guest Editor for Applied Optics journal special issue on Imaging Systems and Applications (2014)

  • Guest Editor for Optical Engineering journal special issue on Fiber Lasers (2014)

  • Technical committee member in Computational Sensing and Imaging (COSI) topical conference of OSA, Hawaii, June 2014

  • Session chair of the Life Sciences Baltics 2014 forum, 10–12 Sep. 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Associate Editor of Opt. Express (2014–2020)

  • The organizing committee member of the Israeli Fiber Lasers and Applications Workshop, Bar-Ilan Univ., 23–24 June 2014

2013

  • Program Committee member of Optical Methods for Imaging, Characterization and Inspection of Bio-Materials and Structures, World of Photonics Congress, Munich, May 2013

  • Program Chair in imaging systems (IS) topical conference of OSA, Arlington, Virginia, June 2013

  • Program committee member and a session chair in SPIE Conference EOM105 (Optical Methods for Inspection, Characterization and Imaging of Biomaterials), Munich, May 2013

  • Session chair in imaging systems (IS), Arlington, Virginia, June 2013

  • Program committee member of the 1st International Biophotonics Meeting in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Dec. 2013

  • Judge in the ACC (Advanced Communications Center) annual Feder Awards competition (2013)

  • Co-general chair of Medi Nano in Lyon (2013)

  • Chairman of a session in the 27th annual conference of the Israeli Vacuum Society (IVS), Herzliya, Sep. 2013

2012

  • The general chair of the annual conference of the optical engineering chapter of the Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Israel, Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat-Gan (March 2012)

  • Judge in the Agilent award finals given by Ariel University Center to graduating students (June 2012)

  • Steering committee of the 15th Israel Materials Engineering Conference (IMEC-15), Dead Sea, Israel (March 2012)

  • Technical committee member and a session chair in imaging systems (IS) topical conference of OSA, June 2012

  • Program committee member of BiophotonicsPlus Competition of the EU (2012)

  • Management member of ILEOS (2012)

  • Co-general chair of Medi Nano in Barcelona (2012)

2011

  • Organized OASIS conference, Tel-Aviv, March 2011

  • Chairman of a session in OASIS conference in Tel-Aviv, March 2011

  • Chair of the scientific committee of the nano technology conference, Wahl center near Bar-Ilan University, April 2011

  • Member of the organizing/steering committee of the International Workshop on Information Optics (WIO), Spain, July 2011

  • Session chair in ISABEL 2011, the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, Barcelona, Oct. 2011

  • Chairman of sessions and member of the scientific committee in the IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat (Nov. 2010, Dec. 2014)

  • Co-general chair of Medi Nano in Rome (Oct. 2011)

  • Special issue editor of the Journal of Nano Photonics (Feb. 2011)

  • Leading guest editor for the Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (2011)

  • Guest editor of special issue on nano-photonics in the Open Optics Journal (2011)

2010

  • Chairman and organizer of the bi-national Bar-Ilan Valencia conference, April 2010

  • Management Member in the Israeli Engineers Association (starting from 2010)

  • Member of the organizing/steering committee of ICIS (2010)

  • Chairman of sessions and member of the scientific committee in the IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat (Nov. 2010, Dec. 2014)

  • Co-general chair of Medi Nano in Belgrade (Oct. 2010)

  • Chairman and organizer of the annual nano photonic conference of BINA, Nahariya, Israel (2010)

2009

  • Organized the Electro-Optics Conference, OASIS, Tel-Aviv, March 2009

  • Chairman of a session in OASIS conference in Tel-Aviv, March 2009

  • Session chair in SPIE meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2009

  • Member of the organizing/technical steering committee of IEEE COMCAS conference in Tel-Aviv, November 2009

  • Chairman of sessions in IEEE COMCAS conference in Tel-Aviv, November 2009

  • Member of the steering committee of the International Workshop on Optical Super Computing (OSC) conference in Bertinoto, Italy, November 2009

  • Member of the program committee of the EOS Topical meeting on optical micro systems in Capri, Italy, November 2009

  • Member of the organizing/steering committee and chairman of the High and Super Resolution Imaging (SHRI) conference in Lipica, Slovenia, September 2009

  • Chairman of a session in the nano photonics conference in Australia, 2009

  • Co-general chair of the Medi Nano conference in Athens, October 2009

  • Special issue editor of the Journal of Nano Photonics (Dec. 2009)

  • Special issue editor of the Journal of Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications (PNFA), (Dec. 2009)

  • Chairman and organizer of the annual nano photonic conference of BINA, Ramat Rachel, Israel, 2009

2008

  • Organized the ILEOS topical meeting in Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, March 2008

  • Chairman of a session in OSA topical meeting in Florida, March 2008

  • Chairman of a session in ILEOS topical meeting in Israel, March 2008

  • Co-general chair of the Medi Nano conference in Istanbul, October 2008

  • Chairman of a session in the 27th annual conference of the Israeli Vacuum Society (IVS), Herzliya, October 2008

  • Chairman and organizer of the annual nano photonic conference of BINA, Dead Sea, Israel, 2008

  • Special issue editor of the Journal on Holography and Speckles (Dec. 2008)

2007

  • Member of the organizing/steering committee of the Israeli Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (ILEOS). Organized the Electro-Optics Conference, OASIS, Tel-Aviv, March 2007

  • Chairman of a session in OASIS conference in Tel-Aviv, March 2007

  • Member of the organizing/steering committee of the Israeli-Turkish workshop on nano photonics, March 2007