Tamir Bendory

Academic positions

2024 – Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
2019 – 2024 Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral research associate, The Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
2015 – 2016 Postdoctoral research associate, Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Education

2012 – 2015 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Advisors: Prof. Arie Feuer and Prof. Shai Dekel; Thesis: Super-resolution of signals using convex optimization
2010 – 2012 M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Advisor: Prof. Arie Feuer; Thesis: Sparse sampling in perfect CT reconstruction algorithms
2006 – 2010 B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Summa Cum Laude
2010 – 2014 B.A. in Humanities and Jewish Studies, The Open University of Israel; Summa Cum Laude

Service

Funding

2024 – 2025 TAD grant, "Model bias in template matching algorithms", 10,000 NIS
2021 – 2025 ISF grant, "Open computational challenges in single-particle cryo-EM", 838,000 NIS
2021 – 2025 BSF grant (jointly with Prof. Dan Edidin), "Algebraic theory for phase retrieval", 140,000$
2020 – 2024 NSF-BSF grant (jointly with Prof. Amit Singer and Dr. Nir Sharon), "Modern techniques for signal reconstruction from moments", 350,000$

Past grants

2021 – 2023 Alon scholarship
2020 – 2022 Grant of the Data Science center at Tel Aviv University (jointly with Dr. Amichai Painsky), "Multiple testing for particle picking in cryo-EM", 200,000 NIS
2020 – 2021 Grant of the Zimin Institute for Engineering Solutions Advancing Better Lives (jointly with Prof. Yoel Shkolnisky) "When mathematics and engineering meet biology: Computational tools for electron microscopy", 75,000$