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Amir Karniel was born in 1967 in Jerusalem, Israel.
He received the B.Sc. degree (Cum Laude) in 1993, the M.Sc. degree in 1996,
and the Ph.D. degree in 2000, all in Electrical Engineering from the
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
He served four years in the Israeli Navy as an electronics technician and
worked during his undergraduate studies at Intel Corporation, Haifa, Israel.
Karniel received the award for consistent distinguished instructor, the E. I.
Jury award for excellent students in the area of systems theory, and the Wolf
Scholarship award for excellent research students. For two years he had
been a post doctoral fellow at the department of physiology, Northwestern University Medical
School, and at the
Robotics Laboratory of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. In
2003, he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, where he serves as the head of
the computational motor control laboratory and the organizer of the annual
international computational motor control workshop. The computational motor control laboratory
is being funded by the Israel Science Foundation, the United States-Israel
Binational Science Foundation, the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, The
National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel, the Ministry of Science,
Israel and the Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics Research and Production
Management. Karniel is an associate professor
at the department of biomedical engineering and the head of the teaching
committee for undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences. He is an associate Editor of the IEEE
transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A, and the field editor for
computational motor control in the Springer Encyclopedic Reference of
Neuroscience. His research interests
include Brain Theory, Neural Networks, Haptics, Motor Control and Motor
Learning.
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