Note for prospective students looking for an MSc or a PhD advisor


This note below is for grad students at BGU CIS or for students who will soon become such students.

Note well:

  • I'm not open to supervise students while they pursue their graduate degree at any other BGU faculty besides BGU CIS.
  • I'm not open to supervise students while they pursue their graduate degree at another university.
  • If your acceptance to our MSc program still depends on the successful completion of one or more HASHLAMOT courses, then please contact me only after successfully passing that requirement.
  • Unless you have background (in terms of official coursework) in either computer vision, machine learning, or deep learning, then there is no point in contacting me.
  • I usually have a very strong preference to working only with students who have taken a class with me.
  • If you are interested in applying for an MSc or a PhD position in my group, here is what you should NOT do. Don't email me and say you want to meet with me so I will tell you about my group's research. It just doesn't work this way. Rather, before contacting, do your homework. Go over my website and/or Google Scholar page. At least skim some of our recent papers, so you will be able to understand what type of research we do. Next, pick at least one paper and read it thoroughly. Once you have done this, please email me and include the following information:
    1. Your grade transcript (Hebrew or English is fine).
    2. Your CV in English.
    3. Briefly explain your background.
    4. State what field or fields you are interested in.
    5. Explain why you are interested in joining my group.
    6. Tell me which recent paper or papers of ours you read thoroughly and convince me you actually read them. Explain what it is about and what you liked and/or didn't like in the paper(s). Tell me if there is something you didn't understand. It is OK if you didn't fully understand the paper(s).
      • if I sense that you merely fed the paper(s) into an LLM (e.g., ChatGPT) and outsourced your thinking to it, then I will ignore your email.
  • Sounds like too much work? Perhaps, but if you can't spend a few hours to get a feeling for whether a place you plan to spend the next two years in is right for you, then this is a great signal for both of us that we shouldn't work together, don't you think?