SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

 

 

 

CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS

 

Doctoral Students

 

 

 

Name

Dept/University

Start Year

Co-supervisor

1

Dina Schneidman-Duhovny

School of Computer Science, TAU

2003

 

2

Oranit Dror

School of  Computer Science, TAU

2004

Ruth Nussinov, MedFac, TAU

3

Alexandra Shulman-Peleg

School of Computer Science, TAU

2004

Ruth Nussinov, MedFac, TAU

4

Dan Fishelovitz

Dept. of Human Genetics,  MedFac, TAU

2004

Ruth Nussinov, MedFac, TAU

5

Ilona Kifer

School  Computer Science, TAU

2005

Ruth Nussinov, MedFac, TAU

6

Keren Lasker

School  Computer Science, TAU

2006

Andrej Sali, UCSF

7

Idit Buch

Human Genetics,  MedFac, TAU

2006

Ruth Nussinov, MedFac, TAU

8

Efrat Mashiach

School Computer Science,T AU

2008

 

 

Masters Students

 

 

 

Name

Dept/University

Start Year

1

Mira Abraham

School of Computer Science, TAU

2004

2

Elad Donsky

School of Computer Science, TAU

2007

3

Aviyah Peri

School of Computer Science, TAU

2008

 

FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS

 

Doctoral Students

 

 

 

Name

Dept/University

Thesis Title

Period

Co-supervisor

1

Yehezkel Lamdan

CS,NYU

Geometric Hashing

1987-1989

J.T. Schwartz, CS, NYU

2

Daniel Fischer

CS,TAU

Structural Matching Algorithms in Molecular Biology

1991-1994

R. Nussinov

 

3

Raquel Norel

CS,TAU

Algorithms for Protein Docking

1992-1997

R. Nussinov

4

Bilha (Billie) Sandak

CS,TAU

A Method for Biomolecular

Structural Recognition allowing Conformational Flexibility

1992-1997

R. Nussinov

 

5

Konstantin Kupeev

CS,TAU

A Structural Method for Shape Recognition

1993-1997

V. Brailovsky

6

Hadar Benyamini

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

Applying Novel Geometric Algorithms in the Search for Amyloidogenic Mechanisms

1999-2004

R. Nussinov,

MedFac

7

Inbal Halperin

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

Improved Docking Schemes Utilizing Biological Information

2001-2005

R. Nussinov,

MedFac

8

Maxim Shatsky

CS,TAU

The Common Point Set Problem with Applications to Protein Structure Analysis

2001-2006

 

9

Nurit Haspel

CS,TAU

Computational modeling and prediction of self assembling b-sheet rich protein structures

2001-2006

R. Nussinov,

 

10

Yuval Inbar

CS,TAU

Structure Prediction of Multimolecular Protein Complexes

2003-2007

 

 

 

Masters Students

 

 

 

Name

Dept/University

Thesis Title

Period

Co-supervisor

1

Ilan Kirsch

CS,TAU

Structural Recognition of Handwritten Hebrew Characters

1989-1990

 

2

Erez Sali

CS,TAU

Texture Classification in Aerial Photographs and Satellite Data

1989-1991

 

 

3

Ezra(Uzi) Mutsafy

CS,TAU

Registration of geographic areas by affine invariant curve matching

1990-1993

 

4

Ephraim (Efi) Cohen

CS,BGU

Partial Matching of 3-D

Objects in CAD/CAM Systems

1993-1995

D. Cohen, CS, BGU

 

5

Vladimir Alesker

CS,TAU

Rapid Macromolecule Comparison by Geometric Secondary Structure Matching

1993-1995

 

6

Dan Shappir

CS,TAU

Mapping of NMR interproton distance onto crystallographically determined protein structures by Computer Vision techniques

1992-1996

 

7

Michael Kolko

CS,TAU

Recognition of Articulated 3D Objects from 2D Images

1993-1996

 

8

Georgy Verbitsky

CS,TAU

Structural Comparison of

Flexible Protein Domains

1994-1996

 

9

Einat Azarya-Sprinzak

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

Mutations of Spatially

Neighboring Residues in Structurally Conserved Environments

1994-1996

R. Nussinov,

 

10

Maria Roiterstein-Rosen

CS,TAU

Protein Molecule Surface

Comparison by Computer Vision Techniques

1994-1997

 

11

Nathaniel Leibovitz

CS,NYU

Multiple Structural Alignment of Protein Ensembles

1997-1999

 

12

Maxim Shatsky

CS,TAU

Flexible Alignment of Protein Molecules

1999-2001

 

13

Tal Elkayam,

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

Computational Studies of Protein Binding Sites

1998-2001

R. Nussinov

14

Nurit Haspel

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

A Computational Study of Protein Folding Pathways

1999-2002

R. Nussinov

 

15

Mark Sadov

CS,TAU

Flexible Matching of Drug Molecules

1996-2002

 

16

Dina Schneidman-Duhovny

CS,TAU

PatchDock: A Method for Binding Site Detection and Unbound Docking of Rigid Molecules

2000-2003

 

17

Adi Barzilay

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

Detection and Analysis of Folding-Function Inter-relationship in Proteins

2000-2003

R. Nussinov,

MedFac

18

Vladimir Polyak

CS,TAU

BUDDA: Backbone Unbound Docking Application

2000-2003

 

19

Oranit Shem-Tov (Dror)

CS,TAU

MASS: A Method for Multiple Structural Alignment by Secondary Structures

2000-2003

 

20

Yuval Inbar

CS,TAU

Prediction of Protein Structure by Combinatorial

Docking

2001-2003

 

21

Alexandra Shulman-Peleg

CS,TAU

Site-Engine: Functional Sites Structural Search Engine

2002-2004

 

22

Assaf Oron

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

Predicting Electrostatic Steering and Encounter Complexes in Protein-Protein Association Processes

2002-2004

Nussinov, MedFac;

N. Ben Tal, Life Sc.

 

23

Shira Mintz

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

Computational Studies of Protein Binding Sites

2003-2005

R. Nussinov

24

Gilad Weinreb

HumGen, MedFac,TAU

Templating the Building Blocks  and a Secondary-Structure Guided  superimposition tool

2003-2005

R. Nussinov

 

25

Zipora Fligelman (Shaqed)

CS,TAU

FLEX MOL: A sequence Order Independent Algorithm for Matching Flexible Molecules by Geometric Hashing

1999-2005

 

26

Keren Lasker

CS,TAU

EMatch: A Method for the Discovery of Protein Substructures in EM Maps

2003-2005

 

27

Nelly Bluvshtein-Andrusier

CS,TAU

FireDock: Fast Interaction REfinement in Molecular Docking

2003-2006

R. Nussinov,

 

28

Ido Shapira,

 

CS,TAU

SiteLight 2: An improved method for protein binding site

prediction using phage display libraries

2003-2006

 

29

Aviad Tsherniak

CS,TAU

ComaLoop: A Method for Protein Loop Modeling Using Contact Maps Similarity

2004-2006

 

30

Efrat Mashiach

CS,TAU

- (transferred to direct Ph.D. track)

2006-2008