Zimin Institute conference 2024

Professor Rafael (Rafi) Beyar, is an interventional cardiologist, a biomedical engineer and an innovator, former director of Rambam Health Care Campus (2006-2019), Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the Technion and former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (1999-2004). Beyar received an MD from Tel Aviv University, DSc in Biomedical Rafael Beyar, MD, DSC, MPH Engineering from the Technion, and MPH from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Beyar Research interests are cardiovascular simulations, coronary stents and cardiovascular robotics. Beyar co-founded Intent, the first-in-the-world robotic coronary intervention, which was acquired by Siemens Healthineers. He currently serves as director of Rambam Med-Tech and is serving as director or advisor in several start-up companies.

Daniel Shechtman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Technion, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals.
After completing his doctorate, Professor Shechtman served as an NRC fellow at the Aerospace Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, where he dedicated three years to studying the microstructure and physical metallurgy of titanium aluminides. In 1975, he joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the Technion. From 1981 to 1983, he took a sabbatical at Johns Hopkins University, focusing on rapidly solidified aluminum transition metal alloys in a joint program with NBS. It was during this period that he discovered the Icosahedral Phase, leading to the emergence of the new field of quasiperiodic crystals.

Orna Berry, is an Israeli computer scientist, high-tech entrepreneur, and senior executive in the Israeli science and technology industries.In 1996, Berry became the first woman to serve as chief scientist and head of the industrial R&D operation of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour. Currently, Berry serves as director of technology in the office of the CTO at Google Cloud.

Leor is the Product Management Director for Google’s Health AI group, focused on catalyzing the adoption and impact of human-centric AI in health. Previously, Leor served as Head of Device Software at Fitbit. He co-lead the acquisition of Fitbit by Google and previously held leadership roles in Google's wearables and digital health group since it acquired his wearable software company, Cronologics Corporation, in 2016. Prior to founding Cronolgoics, Leor worked at a startup called IFTTT, and spent 10 years at Google building and launching new products, services, and operations, including launching Google Israel. Leor also helped found Niantic Labs, which later spun out and launched the hit game, Pokemon Go.

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