Ziv Yekutieli

"One day, a computer may windsurf better than me, but it will never ENJOY it as much." Me. Since I was a kid it was clear to me that I will become an Electrical Engineer. God knows why. My interest in Biology started only when I started studying at the Technion, mostly because the faculty of Biology was the only faculty where there were female students. But then it became interesting (the courses..) and since my first degree I started working on connecting between neurons and electronics: from connecting a nano-wire to an individual neuron, specializing in bio-signals processing, building a virtual trumpet using EMG signals (I still prefer my real trumpet..), connecting a network of ex-vivo neurons to a PC as my Master, and in my PhD using multi-electrode-arrays for looking into neurological disorders, analyzing ECoG for Epilepsy treatment, and all the way up to using mobile devices for looking into cognitive tasks. I've been working throughout my studies, for the most part focusing on CPU thermal and power management, but I also have a lot of experience in board design, testing equipment and automation, VLSI, programming and drinking coffee. So I admit that I'm neither the best Electrical Eng' nor the best Neurophysiologist, but as an Electrical Eng'-Neurophysiologist, I'm pretty darn good!