Posts by Meital Gotfrid

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Yoav Freund  is an Israeli professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego who mainly works on machine learning, probability theory and related fields and applications. He is best known for his work on the AdaBoost algorithm, an ensemble learning algorithm which is used to combine many “weak” learning machines to create a more robust one. He and Robert Schapire received the Gödel prize in 2003 for their… Continue Reading Prof. Yoav Freund

Bin Yu is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor and Class of 1936 Second Chair in the departments of statistics and EECS at UC Berkeley. She leads the Yu Group which consists of 15-20 students and postdocs from Statistics and EECS. She was formally trained as a statistician, but her research extends beyond the realm of statistics. Together… Continue Reading Prof. Bin Yu

Prof. Trey Ideker is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Bioengineering and Computer Science at UC San Diego. Additionally, he is the Director or Co-Director of the National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB), the Cancer Cell Map Initiative (CCMI), the Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative (PCMI), and the UCSD Bioinformatics PhD Program, and former Chief… Continue Reading Prof. Trey Ideker

Ming Yuan is Professor of Statistics at Columbia University. He was previously Senior Investigator in Virology at Morgridge Institute for Research and Professor of Statistics at University of Wisconsin at Madison, and prior to that Coca-Cola Junior Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research and teaching interests lie broadly… Continue Reading Prof. Ming Yuan

Ben Gurion International Airport is located 160 km / 99.4 miles from Ein Bokek – Dead Sea. Car rental companies at the airport Taxi Services Kavim Buses website Egged Buses website Please note that it is not possible to reach the dead sea by train.