Amir Leshem

Amir Leshem was born in 1966 in Petah Tikva

Amir Leshem was born in Petah Tikva in 1966. He studied in the IDF Talpiot program and earned a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then completed a Ph.D. in mathematics there, supervised by Menachem Magidor.

From 1998 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology. In 2002 he joined Bar-Ilan University as a senior lecturer and became the first tenured faculty member of its Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering. He became a full professor in 2010 and headed the signal processing and communication tracks.

He heads the SPIRAL Lab, which works on signal processing, information networks and radio astronomy. His research covers wireless networks, game theory, spectrum management and multi-agent learning. He has supervised more than 30 graduate students, written over 200 scientific publications and holds 4 patents.

He is an IEEE Fellow and a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and received the Bar-Ilan University Rector's Award for Scientific Innovation. With Vered Tohar he created the first Hebrew poetry book written by artificial intelligence. He is also a landscape photographer who has shown work at the Tel-Hai Photography Museum.