Academic Faculty-Marine Technologies
Prof. Yizhaq Makovsky
Head of the Marine Technologies Department
Research Areas: Active seafloor processes – climate and conservation | potential geohazards and resources | Margin and basin studies | Multi-attribute 2D & 3D seismic methods in offshore research | exploration and development | Very High Resolution acoustic profiling | imaging & characterization
Laboratory: Applied Marine Exploration Laboratory
Phone: +972-4-8249261
Office: 286, Multipurpose Building
Email: yizhaq@univ.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Tali Treibitz
Research Areas: Imaging | Underwater Sensing | Oceanic Engineering | Computer Vision | Computational Photography
Laboratory: Marine Imaging Lab
Phone: +972-4-6053606
Office: IOLR Building
Email: ttreibitz@univ.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Roee Diamant
Research Areas: Underwater acoustic communication networks | underwater signal detection |object classification, underwater localization, and underwater navigation | channel modeling | design of algorithms and protocols | analysis, and development of simulation tools | applied research and develop tools for problems like underwater mine detection | navigation without GPS | communication between divers and autonomous vehicles | classification and characterisation of marine mammals and fish | tracking the motion of marine animals, and long range acoustic communication.
Laboratory: The Underwater Acoustics and Navigation lab (ANL)
Phone: +972-4-8240765
Office:IOLR Building
Email: roee.d@univ.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Itzik Klein
Research Areas: Data-driven inertial sensing and sensor fusion | Inertial Navigation | Nonlinear estimation | Autonomous navigation | Inertial Sensors | Global Navigation Satellite Systems | Visual Inertial Odometry | Robotics
Laboratory: Autonomous Navigation and Sensor Fusion Lab
Phone: +972-4-
Office: 271 ,Multipurpose Building
Email: kitzik@univ.haifa.ac.il
Dr. Derya Akkaynak
Research Areas:
Laboratory: Computational Optics and Light in the Ocean Realm Lab (COLOR Lab)
Office: IUI, Eilat
Email: dakkaynak@univ.haifa.ac.il
Dr. Oren Gal
Research Areas: Swarms and AI across scales | Autonomy and decision- making
Laboratory: Swarm & AI lab
Phone: +972-4-
Office: Multipurpose Building
Email: orengal@univ.haifa.ac.il
