Zeev Zalevsky

Prof. Zeev Zalevsky (Hebrew: זאב זלבסקי) is a Professor at Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Engineering where he has held a full professorship since 2010. He earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1993, graduating cum laude, and completed his Ph.D. there in 1996. His doctoral thesis focused on "Unconventional Optical Processors for Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing".

Zeev Zalevsky
זאב זלבסקי
Born	1971
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Tel-Aviv University
Known for	Fractional Fourier transform, Optical resolution
Awards	Krill award, (2007) ICO Prize,(2008) Ernst Abbe Medal, (2008) The Juludan prize for advancing technology in medicine, (2009) Taubenblatt Prize for Excellence in Medical Research[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist, Electrical engineer, Inventor, Professor (Bar-Ilan University)
Institutions	Bar Ilan University
Doctoral advisor	David Mendlovic

Prof. Zeev Zalevsky

From 1993 to 1996, he worked as a teaching assistant at Tel Aviv University and later served as an adjunct lecturer at Ariel Academic College and Tel Aviv University in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He joined Bar-Ilan University in 2004 as a senior lecturer and was promoted to associate professor in 2007, and then to full professor in 2010.

He founded and led the electro-optics track at the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University from 2004 to 2019. He also served as the Dean of Engineering from 2019 to 2024 and as the Vice Dean^[2] on two occasions. He directed the Nano-Photonics Center at Bar-Ilan's Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA) from 2006 to 2018. Since 2024, he is the Vice President^[2] for academy-industry relations at the University.

Entrepreneurial Endeavors

Zalevsky has founded or co-founded several companies based on his research:

• Civcom ltd.: An optical communications company where he was a founder and CTO. It was later acquired by Padtec.
• Explay ltd.: A micro projectors company where he was a founder and CTO. It was later bought by ADM.
• Xceed Imaging ltd. Ophthalmic devices for presbyopia.
• PhotoFree: An RF-based devices to interfere with unauthorized filming.
• Z-square ltd.: Dispossable micro-endoscopy.
• ContinUse Biometrics ltd.: Focuses on optical biosensing and authentication.
• LensFree ltd.: A performance-enhanced CT device.
• SuperSpectra ltd.: Noninvasive detection of Alzheimer's based on Raman spectroscopy.
• Cogni-fiber ltd.: An in-fiber optical processor company.
• Nano-drops ltd.: Ophthalmic nanodrops for vision correction.

Research and Publication

Professor Zalevsky's research interests include super-resolution, biomedical optics, nanophotonics, and optical computing. According to Google Scholar, he has an H-index of 62 and over 20,700 citations. He has authored and edited numerous books and book chapters and has over 1000 scientific publications and hundreds of invited conference presentations. He holds over 100 patents in various fields.

Awards and recognitions

He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including:

• Krill Prize from the Wolf Foundation^[3] (2007).
• ICO Prize and Abbe's Medal for contributions to optical super-resolution^[4] (2008).
• Juludan Prize for advancing medical technology^[5] (2009).
• The international SAOT (School for Advanced Optical Technologies) young researcher prize for pioneering contributions in the development of optical techniques for enhanced imaging resolution and its use for biomedical applications^[6] (2011)
• Taubenblatt prize for excellence in medical research (2011)
• Young investigator prize in nanoscience and nanotechnology (2012)
• The International Wearable Technologies (WT) Innovation Prize (2012)

• Image Engineering Innovation Award of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) for the invention of the Kinect as breaking through 3-D sensing technology and product (2015)

• Outstanding Young Scientist Award (OYSA) of NANOSMAT for significant contributions in the fields of nano-photonics, nano-technology and nano-materials involving the usage of nanoparticles for biomedical imaging, sensing^[7] (2015)

• The Dr. Horace Furumoto Innovations Professional – Young Investigator Award given by the ASLMS (American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery), (2018).

• The Asian Advanced Materials Award for the year 2018 given by IAAM in their congress in Singapore (2018)
• SPIE Prism Award for photonic innovation for co-inventing the remote laser based continues bio-monitoring and authentication technology (2018)
• Rector Prize for Scientific Innovation (2019)
• Edison Award (Silver prize) for co-inventing the super-resolving and minimally invasive micro-endoscope technology (2020)
• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award (2020)
• Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize, given by OSA for significant contributions to the field of optical super-resolution (2021)
• E&T Innovation Award (2021)
• Meitner Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt-Forschungspreis), (2022)
• SPIE Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology^[8] (2023).
• Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) Excellence Award (2023)
• Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize in applied laser technologies (2023).
• IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) Laser Instrumentation Award (2023)
• SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics for significant contributions to the field of diffractive optics and holography, particularly in super-resolved imaging and imaging through scattering media (2024)
• Selected as a "Top Scholar" by ScholarGPS, placing him in the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide (2025).
• Fellowships from prestigious societies such as SPIE (2010), OSA (2012), EOS (2014), IET (2016), IOP(2016), and IEEE (2019).
• National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow Award (2018) for his inventions with tangible impact on society.