Dmitry Batenkov, Ph.D.

Education

• 2008-2014: Ph.D. in Mathematics (direct track; GPA: 4.0), Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Advisor: Yosef Yomdin. Dissertation: Algebraic Reconstruction of Geometric Models from Integral Measurements.
• 1999-2002: B.A. in Computer Science (summa cum laude), Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Experience

• 2024–now: Research Scientist, Basis Research Institute, New York, USA.
• 2023–2024: Visiting Scholar, Courant Institute, NYU, New York, USA.
• 2019–2024: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure approved in June 2024.
• 2016–2019: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, USA (hosted by Laurent Demanet).
• 2014–2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel (hosted by Michael Elad).
• 2002–2008: Software Engineer, Team Leader, and System Analyst at the Center for Computing and Information Systems, an Israeli government agency.

Mentorship

• Shai Zucker — M.Sc. 2023 (co-supervised with Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer), Ph.D. 2023– (co-supervised with Inbar Seroussi)
• Nuha Diab — M.Sc. 2022, Ph.D. 2026 (co-advised with Yoel Shkolnisky)
• Shimon Bogomolov — M.Sc. 2026
• Michael Levinov — M.Sc. 2024
• Gil Goldman — postdoc, 2023–2024
• Inbar Seroussi — postdoc, 2022–2024
• Symeon Papadimitropoulos — postdoc, 2020–2022

Awards

• 2020–2024: Israel Science Foundation Personal Research Grant
• 2020–2023: Volkswagen Foundation Collaborative Grant (joint with Prof. Stefan Kunis)
• 2015: Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, Technion
• 2013: Best Student Paper Award, SAMPTA International Conference
• 2012: John F. Kennedy Memorial Prize, Weizmann Institute of Science
• 2011–2014: Adams Fellowship, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Teaching

• Inverse Problems and Super-Resolution — Tel Aviv University (2019–2023)
• Numerical Analysis - Tel Aviv University (2020–2023)
• Foundations of Modern Analysis — Tel Aviv University (2019)
• Computational Science and Engineering — MIT (2018)

Selected lecture notes

Service

• 2022: Co-organizer of the Abarbanel 2022 Memorial Workshop, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
• 2023: Organizer of a minisymposium on super-resolution, Workshop on Mathematical Signal and Image Analysis, Raitenhaslach, Germany.
• 2021: Organized the Applied Mathematics session at the annual meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Union.
• 2019–2024: Organizer of the Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University.
• 2019: Co-organized the minisymposium Stability of Moment Problems and Super-Resolution Imaging at the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry.