Avner Halperin ( he, אבנר הלפרין) is an

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i entrepreneur, EyeControl's and

EarlySense EarlySense was an Israeli medical device company with offices in the United States. It has sold its proprietary contact-free continuous monitoring technology to Hillrom, now Baxter. History The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Danny Lange, Yos ...

Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is also research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, an adjunct professor at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

(teaching Big Data Economics), and leads global innovation initiatives for

Sheba Medical Center Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer ( he, המרכז הרפואי ע"ש חיים שיבא – תל השומר), also Tel HaShomer Hospital, is the largest hospital in Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan at Tel HaShome ...

Biography

Avner Halperin was born and raised in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He spent the last six years of his schooling in the

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, attending high school in

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After high school, he served in the

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. He earned a

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from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

and, later, an

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in the subject from

. He earned an

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through the

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program at

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, where his thesis documented the role of American CEOs in Israeli companies.

Business and academic career

Halperin worked in executive positions at Eldat Communications,

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, and

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. He also served as the CEO of Emmunet, which he co-founded with

Yossi Vardi Joseph "Yossi" Vardi ( he, יוסי ורדי, born September 2, 1942) is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs. For over 47 years he has founded and helped to build over 85 high-tech companies ...

. In 2004, he co-founded EarlySense, a medical technology company, with Yossi Gross, Guy Shinar, and Danny Lange. He is an inventor of 34 U.S. patents many of which are associated with the non-contact medical detection and monitoring devices that the company produces (other patents cover wireless communications and cyber security solutions). In 2016, Halperin was a member of the Israeli Economic Development Mission led by Governor Charlie Baker. In 2020, Halperin appointed EyeControl's chairman of the board of directors. In addition, Halperin is adjunct professor at the

and also lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at numerous events including a TED Talk on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, the ''

Calcalist ''Calcalist'' ( he, כלכליסט, a Hebrew wordplay on ''The Economist'', from כלכלה) is an Israeli daily business newspaper and website. History and profile ''Calcalist'' was first published on 18 February 2008, and currently runs five d ...

'' Inspire Digital and Mobile conference, the

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's Heart and Stroke Innovation Forum, and CE Week.

Published works

* ''Comment on Compact short-wavelength free-electron laser'', A. Gover and A. Halperin, Physical Review Letters 67, 1934, September 1991. * ''Non-classical Effects in Smith-Purcell Radiation'', Tel-Aviv University, 1993. * ''Electron-beam-induced super-radiant emission from a grating'', A. Halperin, A. Gover, and A. Yariv, Physical Review A 50, 3316, October 1994. * ''Globally dispersed startups'', A. Halperin, MIT, 2001., Halperin, Avner, 2017

References

External links

Google Scholar - Avner Halperin
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