Short CV

Currently, an entrepreneur, and from the beginning of March 2012 a teaching associate at CS in BGU. Previously, 2007-2011 a post-doc fellow in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, at the Intelligent Systems and Mobile Robotics Laboratory of Yael Edan, and since 2008 also in human-computer interaction with Prof Joachim Meyer, with a post-doc felloship from Deutsche Telekom Laboratories @ BGU, working on Human-Computer Interaction projects. Received PhD in 2007 from the University of Cambridge, UK. My supervisor was Peter Robinson from the Rainbow Group, in the Computer Laboratory. My PhD concerned the processing and analysis of expressive non-verbal speech. I was awarded the AAUW Educational Foundation - International Award, and a fellowship of Cambridge Overseas Trust. The BSc and MSc (with thesis) are in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University. My MSc work, "An adaptive scheduler for LANs using fuzzy logic" was awarded the 1st prize in the Lea Lavie competition. In parallel to the MSc studies, I worked as an R&D engineer (VLSI and ASICs) in the computer communication and the XDSL communication networks in the hi-tech industry in Israel. During my studies I was a teaching assistant and a tutor.

R&D 


My research and technology concern the interface between the computerised systems and their users.
    I am interested in developing computer technology which is accessible both to the wide population and to groups with special needs (either physiologically or professionally), and in technology which integrates and adapts cues from human cognition and communication.
    This involves the understanding of human cognitive & communication mechanisms, as well as the development and investigation of new technologies to enhance communication between computers and their users, and new applications to exploit these technologies.
    This research & development area is interdisciplinary in nature. It requires the development and adaptation of tools from signal processing (speech and vision), machine learning, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, affective & social computing, speech recognition, natural language processing, intelligent systems and bio-engineering in conjunction with tools, models and knowledge from psychology, brain sciences, sociology, linguistics and more.

    This research area has many potential applications which will benefit many users.
  


    Contact Details

Phone: +972-52-4042706
Email: tal-.-shikler -at- gmail-.-com 

Israel