Fellowships, Awards and Honors

Jun 2018 A. Arenson Excellence in Teaching Award for young Faculty, A. Arenson  Ltd. General Contractors, Haifa, Israel
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

Grants

2025 Israeli Council of Higher Education, Israel Center for Digital Agriculture, 16,000,000 NIS (five yrs.), Naftali Lazarovitch, Elad Levintal, Dilia Kool, Oz Kira, Tarin Paz-Kagan, Shimon Rachmilevitch, Raphael Linker, Alex Furman, Yael Dubowski, Fadi Kizel, Barak Fishbain (Co-PI), Menachem Moshelion, Tamar Friedlander, Matan Gavish, David Helman, and Yair Mau
2024 German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), DASAM: Data-driven Sewer Asset Management in Germany and Israel, 672,398 Euros (three yrs.), Barak Fishbain (PI), Eran Friedler, and Sabrina Spatari – Technion; Nicolas Caradot, David Steffelbauer – KWB Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH, Berliner Wasserbetriebe
2024 Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, Combined digital twin and artificial intelligence approach for effective and accurate area damage assessment in an earthquake event, 296,700 NIS (two yrs.), Barak Fishbian (PI) and Oren Lavan – Technion
2023 The Israel Data Science Initiative, Deep Learning Approach for Country Scale High-Resolution Air Pollution Modeling, 40,000 NIS (one yr.), Barak Fishbain (PI)
2023 Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, Sound fish welfare-Inferring fish welfare from the sounds they make, 400,000 NIS (three yrs.), Shai Tal – The Israeli National Institute of Aquaculture and Barak Fishbain (Co-PI)
2023 Water Authority, The combination of hydraulic models and machine learning methodologies for identification of cyber-attacks on water network infrastructure, 312,000 NIS (three yrs.), Barak Fishbain (PI) and Mashor Housh – University of Haifa
2019 Ministry of Science & Technology, Heterogeneous robotic team for monitoring and detection in post-disaster catastrophic events, 1,200,000 NIS (3 yrs.), Barak Fishbain (PI) and Amir Degani – Technion
2019 The Office of the Chief Scientist Foundation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Early pain detection in cows from physiological sensors, 210,000 NIS (3 yrs.), Yael Salzer – Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center and Barak Fishbain (Co-PI)
2017 Ministry of Environmental Protection, Characterization, distribution and source apportionment of Ambient Ultrafine Particles in Haifa Bay Area, 350,000 NIS (three yrs.), David Broday, Yael Dubowski and Barak Fishbain (Co-PI) – Technion
2013 The German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Real-time Event Analysis Algorithms for Effective Multi-Source Environmental Monitoring, 38,000 Euros (1 yr.), Barak Fishbain (PI)
2013 Cornel-Tech Foundation, Adaptive Automatic Flow Control in Transportation Facilities, 25,600 USD (1 yr.), Barak Fishbain (PI), Per-Olof Gutman – Technion, and Eilyan Bitar, Cornel University
2012 Environmental Health Foundation (EHF), Traffic Air Pollution Exposure Assessment in an Urban Environment through Wireless Distributed Environmental Sensor Network, 50,000 USD (3 yrs.), Barak Fishbain (PI) and Ilan Levi-The Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection
2012 European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation, 7thFramework Program (FP7), CITI Sense – Development of sensor-based Citizens’ Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities, 260,000 Euros (four yrs.), David Broday and Barak Fishbain (Co-PI) – Technion
2012 Technion-Forschungszentrum Jülich-RWTH Aachen University umbrella cooperation Program, 9,000 Euros (one year), Carbon based Sensory Textile Reinforced Concrete for Smart Structures, Oded Rebinovich, Yiska Goldfeld, Barak Fishbain (Co-PI), and Thomas Gries, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Industrial Grants

2018 MEKOROT, Israel National Water Company, Algorithms for Early Contamination Detection in Water Supply Systems, 270,000 NIS (three yrs.), Barak Fishbian (PI)
2014 MEKOROT, Israel National Water Company, Algorithms for Early Contamination Detection in Water Supply Systems, 140,000 NIS (four yrs.), Barak Fishbain (PI)
2011 Intel, Real-time Traffic Monitoring through Traffic Videos, 20,000 USD (1 yr.), Barak Fishbain (PI)