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Hebrew: שי כרמי

Associate professor, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Harry and Helen L. Brenner Chair in Molecular Biology

Formal page at the faculty website

I’m also an Affiliate Associate Professor at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (2026-)

Education

• 2011-2015     Post-doctoral scientist, Computer Science, Columbia University. Mentor: Itsik Pe’er.
• 2010-2011     Post-doctoral fellow, Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Mentor: Erez Levanon.
• 2005-2010     M.Sc. and Ph.D., Physics , Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Advisor: Shlomo Havlin.
• 2002-2005     B.Sc., Physics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Major honors

• Bar-Ilan University dean’s list (4x), rector’s list
• Wolf foundation (2x)
• Adams fellowship for outstanding doctoral students in the exact sciences in Israel
• Human Frontier Science Program Post-doctoral Fellowship
• Alon fellowship of the Israeli Council for Higher Education for outstanding young faculty (declined)
• TheMarker Magazine 40 most promising under 40 (link)
• Hebrew University young investigator award (Ben-Porath prize)
• Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Israel in the Life Sciences (profile video)

Competitive funding (selected)

• Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
• United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
• German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
• Abisch-Frenkel Foundation
• The Hebrew University Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research (CIDR)
• Israel Science Foundation program in precision medicine (link)
• Israel Ministry of Science and Technology
• National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH (NHGRI)
• Israel Science Foundation MAVRI program – Biomedical Research Grants Track (link)
• World Anti-Doping Agency (link)

Previous research

Late PhD:

• RNA and DNA editing in mammalian genomes (computational biology, with Erez Levanon).
• Functionals of anomalous diffusion trajectories (statistical mechanics, with Eli Barkai).
• RNA processing in the Sleeping Sickness agent, Trypanosoma brucei (computational biology, with Shulamit Michaeli)

Early PhD:

• Analysis of large-scale networks such as the Internet and protein interaction networks (with Shlomo Havlin and others)
• Transport on random networks: percolation, diffusion, electrical conductance, flow, navigation, and disease spreading (with Shlomo Havlin, H. Eugene Stanley, Daniel ben-Avraham, and others).