Bio

Education

Current Affiliations

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

Jun 2018, iEMSs 2018 Student Scholarship Award, A. Nebenzal and Barak Fishbain, “Long Term Forecasting of Nitrogen Dioxide in Metropolitan Areas Using the Discrete Time Markov Model”, 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, June 24-28, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Jun 2018, iEMSs 2018 Best Student Paper Award 3rd place, A. Nebenzal and Barak Fishbain, “Long Term Forecasting of Nitrogen Dioxide in Metropolitan Areas Using the Discrete Time Markov Model”, 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, June 24-28, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
May 2017, Goldberg Excellence in Research Award, Alexander Goldberg Foundation, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Jun 2016, Best Poster Award: T. Yacobi, Y. Etzion and B. Fishbain, “Assessing PM ambient levels from a set of still images”, 2016 Annual convention of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 21–23, 2016.
Jun 2016, Best Poster Award Runner-up: A. Nebenzal and B. Fishbain, “Long Term Forecasting of NO2 in Metropolitan Areas Using the Discrete Time Markov Model”, 2016 Annual convention of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 21–23, 2016.
Feb 2015, Best Poster Award: U. Lerner, T. Yacobi, I. Levy, S.A. Moltchanov, T. Cole-Hunter and B. Fishbain, “The effect of ego-motion on environmental monitoring”, EPScon conference, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, 2015.
Jul 2012, Most Distinguished Program Graduate, US Department of Homeland Security & US National Science Foundation (NSF)
Oct 2008, Research Scholar Excellence Award, Ran Naor Foundation
Dec 2007, Research Student Excellence Award, Applied Materials
Nov 2007, Rosenberg Excellence Award, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University
Nov 2007, Israel Ministry of Science and Technology PhD Research Fellowship

Teaching Awards

Statistics (014003, undergraduate)
  • 2015, Excellence Teaching award (highest 12%)
  • 2017, Excellence Teaching award (highest 12%)
  • 2018, A. Arenson Excellence in Teaching Award for young Faculty.
  • 2018, Excellence Teaching award (highest 12%)
  • 2019, Excellence Teaching award (highest 4%)

Professional Service

Aug 2018 – Present, Associate Editor, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
Oct 2019 – Oct 2020, Chair, Emerging and Innovative Technologies Committee (EITC), Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Oct 2018 – Oct 2019, Vice Chair, Emerging and Innovative Technologies Committee (EITC), Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Oct 2017 – Oct 2018, Secretary, Emerging and Innovative Technologies Committee (EITC), Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Jul 2017 – Present, Management Committee, COST Action CA16202, International Network to Encourage the Use of Monitoring and Forecasting Dust Products
Jul 2017 – Present, Executive Board, Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences.
May 2017 – Present Member, Working Group 5.11, Computers and Environment, International Federation for Information Processing
Oct 2016 – Present, Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Nov 2010 – Apr 2020, Associate Editor, Journal of Real-time Image Processing
Nov 2010 – Apr 2020, Advisory Board, Journal of Real-time Image Processing
Jan 2010 – Nov 2010, Guest Editor, Journal of Real-time Image Processing
Jun 2010, Review Panel, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Jun 2009, Review Panel, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Reviewer: Water Research; Science of the Total Environment; Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management; Mathematical Problems in Engineering; Urban Water; Journal of Operations Research; Annals of Operations Research; European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research; IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; Optics Letters, Optical Society of America; Journal of Optical Society of America A (JOSA A); Journal of Real-time Image Processing; Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Past affiliations