People
Dr. Ariel Frank
Eitan's co-founder and academic head.
Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, since 1984. He has served as deputy chairperson of his department for 15 years. He received his undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University (Israel), Weizmann Institute (Israel), and SUNY at Stony Brook (USA), respectively. Ariel’s main areas of research, teaching and Master/project supervision are related to Information Retrieval (IR), especially Internet Resources Discovery (IRD), Search Engines (SE) and Digital Libraries (DL), and Computer Systems, especially Distance/Distributed Education (DE), Multimedia (MM), Operating Systems (OS) and Distributed Systems (DS).
Mr. Udi Heller
Eitan's co-founder and director of technology development.
Architect of the Eitan platform with specialization in Web development and technologies, Software Engineering, User Interfaces and Knowledge Representation. Has B.Sc. in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University, and studied for M.Sc. in Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University. Has led labs in Software Engineering and Web development at several universities including Bar-Ilan, Tel-Aviv and the Technion, with hundreds of students building applications and educational sites for eitan.ac.il.
Mr. Eitan Sessler
Eitan's director of business development.
Has a B.A. majoring in Entrepreneurship and Marketing (Cum Laude) from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel.
Eitan works as the Operation Manager of Pisga Engineering LTD., an Aerospace & Defense Engineering Consultancy company. Eitan has led a venture in the cellular market, involving both technological and general management of the venture. During his army service Eitan was a team leader in 'Mamram' unit, part of the Signal Corps of IDF.
Mr. Gil Westrich
Eitan's Senior technology advisor and system designer.
Received B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science and studied for M.Sc. in the Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Worked as a C++ lecturer at Sivan (nowadays John Bryce Training), served in the technological branch, IDF Intelligence Cores, as an engineer and team leader. Worked in Zoran Mobile Division (formerly Emblaze Mobile, Emblaze Research) as a senior engineer, team leader and group manager. Highly experienced in various programming languages and methodologies, ranging from high-level to real-time to embedded programming and design. Versed in many fields and technologies, including data mining and artificial intelligence, operating systems, vision and imaging, servers architecture and databases. Have led many design, development and customer oriented projects.
Dr. Alexander Klimov
Eitan's Scientific advisor, System manager, and Security expert