Vice President for Academia-Industry Relations, Zeev Zalevsky

The office maintains an open dialogue between these two worlds with the aim of sharing the knowledge existing in the university laboratories with industry bodies, and promoting its harnessing to create useful technologies for the good of the public.

Additionally, the dialogue created between academia and industry is used by the office to generate insights about the future needs of the high-tech industry, and to channel these insights to guide future research and improve the training of university graduates.

Until his appointment as Vice President for Academia-Industry Relations in October 2024, Professor Zeev Zalevsky served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, and before that as Vice Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Electro-Optics Track.

Professor Zeev Zalevsky is a graduate of the direct doctoral track in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Electro-Optics at Tel Aviv University. His research areas focus on super-resolution imaging systems, biomedical optics, nano-photonics and photonic information processing architectures.

Professor Zalevsky has published more than 600 articles in international scientific peer review journals and dozens of books and chapters.There are about 100 registered patents for his inventions in the field of engineering.

For his research work, Professor Zalevsky has received numerous Israeli and international awards, including:

· Krill Prize · ICO Prize · Image Engineering Innovation Award · SPIE Prism Award · Horace Furumoto Award · IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award · Joseph Fraunhofer Prize · Humboldt Research Award · SPIE 2023 Chandra S. Vikram Award for Metrology · Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize · IEEE Photonics Society 2023 Laser Instrumentation Award and more.

Professor Zalevsky is a fellow of numerous scientific societies, such as SPIE, IEEE, Optica, and others.

Technological developments immerged from his research at Bar-Ilan University have so far been commercialized in 10 different startup companies.