Curriculum Vitae#

Zoe Piran#

Education#

2020-current Ph.D. in Computer Science, The Hebrew University.

2018-2020 M.Sc. in Physics, The Hebrew University.
magna cum laude

2016 - 2018 B.Sc. double major in Physics and Computer Science, The Hebrew University.
magna cum laude

Research Experience#

2020-current Hebrew University, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. Mor Nitzan.

“Encoding and decoding cellular identities in single-cell data.”
Uncovering structure in complex biological systems using methods and ideas from Computer Science and Physics.

May 2023-September 2023 ___ Apple ML Research, Paris, Prof. Marco Cuturi.___

“Self-supervised Learning with the Matching Gap”
Combining self-supervised learning with optimal transport theory.

2018-2020 Hebrew University, Racah Institute, Prof. Naftail Tishby and Prof. Zohar Ringel.

“The Dual Information Bottleneck”
Suggesting a technique in Information Theory which incorporates Statistical Mechanics and Deep Learning.

October 2019 Harvard University, NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology.

Research as a Visiting Scholar.

2014-2017 Hebrew University, School of Computer Science and Engineering and Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Prof. Nir Friedman.

Acquiring computational biology knowledge while performing big data analysis on biological data.

Awards and Honors#

  • 2022-current Clore Scholarship for Ph.D students, The Clore Israel Foundation.

  • 2021-current Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in data-science, Israeli Council for Higher Education.

  • 2018-2020 Scholarship for master’s degrees for outstanding women in Hi-Tech, Israeli Council for Higher Education.

  • 2017-2018 Computer Science Honors program for undergraduates, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

  • 2016-2018 Dean’s Honors List, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Educational Work#

  • 2020-current Co-leader of the “Physics & Computer Science undergraduate program” at the Hebrew University.

  • 2018-current Teacher assistant at the Hebrew University:

    • “Computation and Physics Lab.”

    • “Mechanics for Bio-Medicine Students.”

    • “General Physics - Mechanics For Chemistry & Earth Students.”

  • 2018-current Management of media channels of the Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University.

Presentations#

Invited talks#

  • February 2024 Immunai Inc. Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • December 2023 Optimal Transport and Machine Learning workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, Virtual.

  • December 2023 Compugen Ltd, Holon, Israel.

  • April 2023 Lander Lab, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.

  • February 2023 Shalev Itzkovitz Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

  • November 2022 Super Group Meeting, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands.

  • October 2019 QBio group meeting, NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

Spotlight talks#

  • March 2023 Physics of Life 2023.

  • June 2022 Single Cell Biology 2022.

Posters#

  • January 2022 The 5th Advanced School in Computer Science and Engineering: AI for Better Medicine.