
Gal Oren
orenw[at]post.bgu.ac.il
(+972) (0) 506 239 129
Work experience
Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) 2011 — Present
TradeMarker 2018 — Present
Education
Department of Computer Science, M.Sc. 2011 — 2015
- Thesis: Optimizations of Management Algorithms for Multi-Level Memory Hierarchy.
- Supervisors: Dr. Leonid Barenboim, Dr. Lior Amar
- Thesis final score: 94. Degree final score: 92. Magna cum laude.
- Foundation for the Advancement of Education in Israel Scholarship (2013)
- The Hillel Scholarship, the Open University of Israel (2014)
- Thesis Scholarship, Computer Science Master's Degree Program, the Open University of Israel (2015)
Department of Computer Science, Ph.D 2016 — Present
- Thesis: Distributed Management Algorithms for Heterogeneous Computing Systems and Networks
- Supervisors: Dr. Leonid Barenboim, Prof. Michael Elkin
Swedish Summer School in Computer Science (S3CS) June 2016
S3CS consists of two mini-courses by Prof. Michael Mitzenmacher and Prof. Sergei Vassilvitskii.
Radboud Summer School August 2017
Cyberpsychology research course by Dr. Jens Binder.
Publications & Conferences
- Leonid Barenboim, Gal Oren Distributed Backup Placement in One Round and its Applications to Maximum Matching Approximation and Self-Stabilization, arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05700 (2019)
- Re'Em Harel, Idan Mosseri, Harel Levin, Lee-or Alon, Matan Rusanovsky, Gal Oren, Source-to-Source Parallelization Compilers for Scientific Shared-Memory Multi-core and Accelerated Multiprocessing: Analysis, Pitfalls, Enhancement and Potential, The International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP'19)
- Idan Mosseri, Matan Rusanovsky, Gal Oren, TradeMarker - Artificial Intelligence Based Trademarks Similarity Search Engine, The 21th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII'19)
- Leonid Barenboim, Gal Oren Fast Distributed Backup Placement in Sparse and Dense Graphs, arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.08819 (2019)
- Gal Oren, Leonid Barenboim, Distributed Backup Placement in WSNs and Planar Graphs (Poster), The 7th Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS'19)
- Idan Mosseri, Matan Rusanovsky, Gal Oren, TradeMarker - Under the Hood, Google AI for Social Good Workshop
- Gal Oren, Shimon Shmooely, How Governments can use AI for Public Service Delivery?, United-Nations & Google AI for Social Good Summit, Bangkok 2018
- Gal Oren, TradeMarker - Artificial Intelligence based Trademarks Similarity Search Engine, Policy Implementation in the Age of Big Data Conference, the Knesset 2018
- Gal Oren, Idan Mosseri, Matan Rusanovsky, TradeMarker - One of Seven leading AI for Social Good Projects of 2018, AI for Social Good conference, Google Headquarters, California 2018
- Eyal Shalev, Vladimir Lyakhovsky, Gal Oren, Harel Levin, Stephen J. Bauer, Damage Accumulation and Wellbore Stability, The American Geophysical Union Conference (AGU'18)
- Technical Program Committee, the 3nd IEEE PERCOM Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Thing (SPT-IoT'19), , In conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2019 (PERCOM'19)
- Idan Mosseri, Re'Em Harel, Harel Levin, Matan Rusanovsky, Gal Oren, Automatic Parallelization for Shared Memory Scientific Multiprocessing (Presentation & Poster), In OpenMPCon Developers Conference (OpenMPCon'18), The 14th International Workshop on OpenMP 2018 (IWOMP'18), & The 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD'18)
- Gal Oren, Leonid Barenboim, Harel Levin, Distributed Fault-Tolerant Backup-Placement in Overloaded Wireless Sensor Networks (Full Paper), The 9th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (BROADNETS'18)
- Gal Oren, Leonid Barenboim, Harel Levin, Distributed Fault-Tolerant Backup-Placement in Overloaded Wireless Sensor Networks (Short Abstract) & Poster, The 11th ACM International on Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR'18)
- Gal Oren, Leonid Barenboim, Harel Levin, Distributed Fault-Tolerant Backup-Placement in Overloaded Wireless Sensor Networks (Poster), The 32nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'18)
- Gal Oren, Guy Malamud, CalCul: A Python-based Workspace for High-Performance Parameters-Survey in Scientific Legacy Codes, The international Parallel Computing conference (ParCo'17)
- Gal Oren, Leonid Barenboim, Harel Levin, Adaptive Distributed Hierarchical Sensing Algorithm for Reduction of Wireless Sensor Network Cluster-Heads Energy Consumption, The 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'17)
- Gal Oren, Leonid Barenboim, Harel Levin, Load-Balancing Adaptive Clustering Refinement Algorithm for Maximization of Wireless Sensor Network Clusters Lifetime, The 15th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC'17)
- Gal Oren, Yehuda Ganan, Guy Malamud, AutOMP - An Automatic OpenMP Parallelization Generator for Variable-Oriented High-Performance Scientific Codes, The 7th International Supercomputing Conference 2017 (ISUM'17) - Best paper - International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 46-53, Feb. 2018
- Technical Program Committee, the 2nd IEEE PERCOM Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Thing (SPT-IoT'17), In conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2017 (PERCOM'17).
- Gal Oren, Lior Amar, David Levi-Hevroni, Guy Malamud, The Looking-Glass System: A Unidirectional System for Secure Data Transfer using an Optic Medium, The 2nd International Conference on Future Network Systems and Security 2016 (FNSS'16 - Previously IoT-CT at WiMob).
- Gal Oren, Leonid Barenboim, Lior Amar, Memory-Aware Management for Heterogeneous Main Memory Complex using an Optimization of the Aging Paging Algorithm, 2016 Workshop on High-Performance Computing for Big Data (HPC4BD) in conjunction with the 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'16)
- Gal Oren, Leonid Barenboim, and Lior Amar, Memory-Aware Management for Multi-Level Main Memory Complex using an Optimization of the Aging Paging Algorithm (Short Abstract) & Poster, The 9th ACM International on Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR'16)
- Gal Oren, Optimizations of Management Algorithms for Multi-Level Memory Hierarchy, Master's Dissertation, The Open University, 2005.
- VIP Exhibitor at the WATEC 2013 Innovation Pavilion, The 7th International Exhibition & The 4th International Conference on Water Technologies & Environmental Control, Tel Aviv Convention Center, October 22-24, 2013
- Gal Oren, Nerya Stroh, Mathematical Model for Detection of Leakage in Domestic Water Supply Systems by Reading Consumption from an Analogue Water Meter, International Journal of Environmental Science and Development (IJESD), Vol. 4, No. 4, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology Press, ISSN: 2010-0264, August 2013; Presented in the 3rd International Conference on Environment and Industrial Innovation - ICEII'13)
- Gal Oren, Nerya Stroh, Antileaks: A device for detection and discontinuation of leakages in domestic water supply systems, European Journal for Young Scientists and Engineers (EJYSE), Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, ISSN 1799-9634 (print) & 1799-9642 (online), November 2012.
Awards
- Grand Award at the Hebrew Wikipedia Writing Competition (2009)
- Chief Judge at the Hebrew Wikipedia Writing Competition (2010)
- President of Israel Commendation for an original scientific study, the National Young Scientist and Engineers Competition in Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010)
- Stockholm Junior Water Prize in Israel, Tel Aviv University (2010)
- Honor Diploma from Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Stockholm Junior Water Prize, World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden (2010)
- 3rd Prize, the National Young Scientist and Engineers Competition in Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2011)
- Intel Prize, the European Union Contest for Young Scientists, Helsinki, Finland (2011)
- 3rd Special Award in Sustainable Water Management category, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the United States (2012)
- 3rd Grand Award in Environmental Management category, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the United States (2012)
- The Encouraging Creativity Among Scientists Prize, Weizmann Institute of Science (2013)
- Excellent Paper Award, the 3rd International Conference on Environment and Industrial Innovation – ICEII, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013)
- Ministry of Culture Prize for Literature (2015)
- The Katzir Fellowship, Israel Ministry of Defense (2016)
- Students Leading Innovation in the Public Sector - Finalist, Google & Ben-Gurion University (2018)
- Maccabim Foundation Scholarship for PhD Students (2017, 2018, 2019)
- Selected for GYSS-2019@One-North (Global Young Scientist Summit for outstanding PhDs)
- BRONZE student design award, HCI International (2019)
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