The Center Personnel

Dr. Ziv Brand is a senior lecturer at the Mechanical Engineering Department and head of the Control Research Center at SCE College. The fields of interest include, inter alia, active vibration damping, modern and optimal control and AI-based control. His research activity combines theoretical, numerical simulation and experimental work as well as assimilation and adaptation of his research into engineering applications. Ziv completed his B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering specializing in control. For over 22 years he worked for the Defence Ministry as a researcher in the field of control and dynamics and in senior management positions.

Etan Fisher completed his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben Gurion University in 2012. His interests are audio based control for robots and music.

e-mail: etanfi@sce.ac.il

Mr. Artyom Yuhananov - Laboratory engineer

Mr. Nikolay Razoronov - Laboratory engineer

Mr. Itay Shafir

B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering. A senior researcher at the Nuclear Research Center and an expert in dynamics and modal analysis and testing. Itay is a research fellow at the Control Research Center.

Mr. Arnon Lewinstein

B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering. A senior researcher at the Nuclear Research Center and an expert in dynamics and modal analysis and testing. Arnon is a research fellow at the Control Research Center.

Mr. Tinnawat Hongphan

B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering. Tinnawat is currently performing his research work for his third degree at Chiang Mai University, on the subject of learning-based active vibration control strategies for thin-walled structures and application to chatter avoidance in turning operations, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Matthew O.T. Cole of the Chiang Mai University and Dr. Ziv Brand.

Mr. Gal Tamsot

B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering. Gal is currently performing his research work for his master degree on the active suppression of vibration in water-submerged elastic beams using actuators and sensors based on Piezoelectric materials, under the guidance of Dr. Ziv Brand.

Mr. Amir Hattab

B.Sc. degree in nuclear engineering and M.Sc. degree in electro-optic engineering, Amir is currently performing his second-degree research work on the subject of topological studies for particle swarm optimization for the optimal control of a thin-walled rotor, under the guidance of Dr. Ziv Brand.

Mr. Artyom Yuhananov

B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering. Artyom is currently performing his second-degree research work in the subject of harvest energy and active damping elastic vibration under the guidance of Dr. Ziv Brand.

Mr. Naor Nagar

B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering. Naor is currently performing his second-degree research work on the subject of using artificial intelligence to control complex thermal systems based on numerical models, under the guidance of Dr. Ziv Brand and Dr. Efi Zemach.