Collaboration Opportunities
We offer several opportunities for collaboration across our areas of activity. These include the following opportunities, among others:
- Graduate students of BGU, supervised by university and IBM researchers, participate in projects that often culminate in MSc and PhD theses.
- Internships are available for qualified international graduate students, in collaboration with the BGU Office of International Academic Affairs.
- A limited number of industrial projects are offered every year to undergraduate students as part of their (final year) university curriculum.
For more information, please contact us.
Visiting Scientists and Interns
Eden Yavin
Software and Information Systems Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Time of internship: 2020
Eden, an engineering student in Ben-Gurion University, enrolled in the Starship Internship Program, which provides students with an opportunity to learn about R&D processes in leading technology companies situated in the nearby Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park, where IBM’s CCoE is located. During the internship, Eden helped IBM researchers develop a network attack simulator. Following the successful completion of the internship project, Eden accepted a student position in IBM Research.
Dr. Nachiket Tapas
Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Time of internship: 2019-2020
Nachiket, a scholar from the University of Messina (UniMe) in Italy, carried out research in our lab in collaboration with Ben-Gurion University. The research, funded by the Italian government, focused on cross-organization sharing of cyber threats using blockchain technology. The research was carried out in collaboration with Prof. Asaf Shabtai (BGU), Prof. Francesco Longo (UniMe), Prof. Antonio Puliafito (UniMe), Dr. Yair Allouche (IBM), and Prof. Yaron Wolfsthal (IBM).
Trung Chu Bao
Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan
Time of internship: Nov 2018-Jan 2019
Bao Trung is a doctoral student in Japan. He was funded by the Graduate Program for Real-World Data Circulation Leaders of Nagoya University to join an internship project in collaboration with IBM CCoE and BGU. He worked with Prof. Asaf Shabtai (BGU), Aviv Ron (IBM) and Prof. Yaron Wolfsthal (IBM) on utilizing AI techniques in log parsing.
Dr. Hagit Grushka-Cohen
Software and information System Engineering department, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Time of internship: 2018-2019
Hagit, as a recipient of the IBM PhD Student Award from Ben-Gurion University, investigated methods to automate the complex tasks of data security analysts, using advanced AI methods that leverage analyst knowledge and intuition as well as the history of system alerts. These methods enable organizations to discover security risks faster with less resources. Hagit's work was done in collaboration with Prof. Bracha Shapira (BGU), Prof. Lior Rokach (BGU), Dr. Ofer Biller (IBM), and Oded Sofer (IBM), and was published in a top research conference (PAKDD2020) and a book chapter.