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The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
Bloomfield Building
H, H̱efa, 3200003
Israel

Arik Cheshin

Assistant Professor - Social Scientist

Arik Cheshin is a social scientist. His main area of research is the social influence of emotions. He studied Psychology at the University of Michigan, and completed his graduate studies at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology receiving his MA and PhD in Organizational Psychology. For his postdoc, Arik worked at the Social Psychology Department at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently an assistant professor at Human Services Department of the University of Haifa. Cheshin’s work has appeared in academic journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Social Psychological and Personality Science, and in media outlets, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, CNBC, and others.

Asya Rolls

Neuroscientist

Asya Rolls is an Associate Professor at the Rappaport Medical School, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She is also an International Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. Rolls studies the physiological mechanisms whereby emotions and thoughts affect physical health. By deciphering the neuronal pathways mediating brain-immune signals, her work aims to harness the brain’s therapeutic potential. Rolls obtained her PhD from the Weizmann Institute, Israel and completed her postdoctoral training at Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar. She was elected member of the FENS-KAVLI (2015-2018) and a member of the Israeli Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her work has been recognized through a number of awards including the NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Krill Prize (Wolf Foundation), the Adelis Brain Research Award, Rappaport Prize and the ERC starting grant.

Ben Cale

Mentalist

Ben Cale is an Israeli Mentalist, Hypnotist and magician who travels around the world with a show called Hypno-Magic. Ben has over a decade of experience in private and corporate events all over the world.

Bill Grady

Design Director, IBM Cloud

Bill Grady is an award-winning creative leader and inventor with 8 US patents, who is responsible for the product design of IBM Cloud. He is charged with improving the consistency and quality and elevating the level of design craft and user delight for the multi-billion dollar division. He recently apprenticed under the head of design at IBM, participating in a transformation of how the company’s teams understand and solve complex problems. He was previously Brand Manager of Watson, IBM's artificial intelligence technology, with responsibility for global familiarity and favorability toward the brand. He has managed the creative development of exhibitions and digital experiences that are enjoyed by millions of visitors, including creation of the 6,600 square-foot IBM exhibit at Disney World, and led industrial design of several products. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design at Georgia Tech and an MBA from NYU and now lives in Austin, Texas.

Hasan Abo-Shally

Social-Entrepreneur, Technologist & Designer

Hasan is an impact-driven multidisciplinary; social-entrepreneur, experience-designer, and technologist. He self-learned software development at a young age, sold his first application while in high-school and worked for several tech startups. In 2014 Hasan founded “Hasoub” - a grassroots NGO fostering tech-entrepreneurship as an economic lever for the local Arab society. And in 2016 he founded “Ibtekar” - a socio-educational venture promoting making and technological-innovating among kids and youth from underprivileged backgrounds. Hasan is a Forbes Under 30 honoree (2017), Stanford’s AMENDS fellow, OneYoungWorld ambassador and the youngest among TheMarker’s 2018 list of “40 Under 40” promising youth in Israel. Hasan has a degree in interactive media from IDC-Herzliya (with full scholarship) and served in the research team of its Media Innovation Lab (miLAB). Currently, he is leading the strategy and innovation at Hasoub and pursuing an MBA within the Technion’s Startup-MBA program.

Ido Grinberg

Creative Manager and Founder of the @mismas Brand

Ido Grinberg has turned his sensitivity and witty writing into a successful fashion brand, featured even in an NYC fifth avenue parade. His project #OneSentenceADay on Instagram has become a profound phenomenon through the power of social media. Grinberg story sheds light on community building and marketing in the new era. He is a radio broadcaster, lectures worldwide, and has served as head of creative and digital in major Israeli TV networks. His Instagram profile @mismas gained over 90K followers in one year.

Josué Sznitman

Biomedical engineer and scientist

Josué Sznitman (BSc, MIT 2002; Dr. Sc., ETH Zurich 2008) is a Swiss, French and Israeli national. He joined the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in 2010 and is currently a tenured Associate Professor of biomedical engineering focusing on respiratory physiology and drug delivery to the lungs. Sznitman has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and is a co-inventor on several patents. Among his accolades, he was awarded the Young Investigator Award (2015) by the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) for a researcher under the age of 40 and most recently the 2018 Emerging Scientist Award in Drug Delivery to the Lungs (The Aerosol Society, UK). He is the co-founder of Gradtrain Ltd., an online education consultancy.

Moran Lazar

Social scientist

Moran Lazar is a doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Her multidisciplinary research focuses on entrepreneurial teams and idea attachment. She serves as a research consultant at the Technion Knowledge Center for Innovation and a research fellow at the Technion Bronica Entrepreneurship Center. Lazar is an Ariane de Rothschild fellow and won the Taub prize for an excellent organizational-behavior master thesis. She facilitated a women-empowerment program at a community center and an HR strategy building for a non-profit organization, both supported unprivileged populations in Israel.

Naama Cohen

MSc student in the field of particle acceleration

Naama Cohen is an MSc student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Her research deals with particle acceleration for applications in research and medicine. Cohen received her BSc from the Electrical Engineering Faculty at the Technion. During her studies, she held a position at a defense company in the field of computer vision.

Raz Yitzhaki

Jazz musician, lecturer

Raz Yitzhaki is an innovative lecturer in the business sector inspiring managers about leadership, innovation, and teamwork through Jazz. He is an experienced music educator specializing in creative thinking in jazz and popular idioms. Yitzhaki is the author of “Jazz Improvisation, Basis, and Theory”. He has a PhD in musicology from Bar Ilan University and M.Ed in Music Education from the Levinsky College of Education. He is a lecturer at the Music Department, Bar Ilan University and former head of the jazz department in the Tel Aviv High School of Arts. Yitzhaki is an active jazz pianist and an enthusiastic lecturer on jazz culture, spreading his passion among audiences. He believes that in the same way that jazz reflects the dynamics of life, jazz can also be seen as a philosophy, a way of life. https://www.razjazzmusic.com

Rellie Derfler-Rozin

Social Scientist

I am an Assistant Professor of Management & Organization at Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. I received my PhD in Organizational Behavior from the London Business School, a MSc. in Industrial Psychology from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Economics from Tel-Aviv University. My research looks at how the social context impacts employees’ decision making. I examine situations in which people behave in ways that run counter to what one would expect them to do because of innate social needs, such as the need to belong or the need for social status. I apply psychological theories to organizational challenges to seek solutions that improve employees’ lives at the workplace and organization’s success. I use multi-methods approach, combining field surveys, field experiments, laboratory experiments and archival data analysis. I study two main specific areas: (1) behavioral ethics (2) selection decisions and biases.