Curriculum Vitae
Name: Yair Rivenson
E-Mail: rivenson@gmail.com
Employment history:
2015 – Present: Marie Skolodwska-Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Los Angeles,
Nano/Bio Photonics Lab. PI: Prof. Aydogan Ozcan.
2013 – 2015: Post-doctoral scholar, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Prof. Zeev Zalevsky research group.
2003 – 2008: Project officer at the communication division, IDF. Release rank – Captain.
Education:
2009-2013: PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Supervisors: Prof. Yossi Rosen, Prof. Adrian Stern, Dissertation Title: Advanced computational imaging
systems.
2006 - 2009: MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Supervisors: Prof. Yossi Rosen, Prof. Adrian Stern. Thesis title: Compressive imaging techniques.
1999 - 2003: BSc (Cum Laude) in in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev.
Teaching experience:
2009 – 2015: Senior year final projects advisor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Coadviser of 14 senior year’s project.
2010 - 2013: Introduction to Photo-Electronics.
2011 – 2013: Senior year Electro-Optics laboratory (Lab coordinator since 2012).
2009 – 2010: Introduction to Analog circuits Laboratory.
2009 – 2010: Introduction to Electrical Engineering Laboratory.
Honors and Awards (including Membership in Professional Societies):
2015 – Marie Skolodwska-Curie Global Fellowship for training in the labs of Prof. Aydogan Ozcan and
returning phase in the lab of Prof. Zeev Zalevsky.
2013 – Dean’s award for outstanding PhD students.
2013 – A paper summary was elected for the Optics & Photonics news year in review Y. Rivenson, A. Rot, S. Balber, A. Stern, and J. Rosen, “Imaging through Partially Occluding Media Using
Compressive Sensing,” (Special Issue: Optics in 2013) OPN 23 (6), 31 (2012).
2012 – Winner of a Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Prof. Rahamimoff Travel Grant for Young
Scientists.
2011 - Nechemia Lev-Zion Scholarship for Excellent Ph.D. Students, Israel Ministry of Education (V.T.T.
– the Budgeting and Planning Committee).
2011 – Co winner of the best paper award in Workshop on Information Optics (WIO) 2011.
2011 – A report in OSA Focal Point – “BGU-OSA Makes a Big Impact on Young Scientists”.
2010 – Levi Eshkol excellence scholarship, awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Science & Technology.
2009 – The Negev excellence scholarship for Ph.D. students.
2004 – Avraham Tslaf award for outstanding final B.Sc. project.
2003 – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering excellence award.
Member – Optical Society of America (OSA)
Publications:
Invited book chapters and publications in special editions
[1] Y. Rivenson, "Compressive holography" to appear in Optical compressive sensing, A. Stern Editor,
Taylor & Francis, 2016.
[2] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern, J. Rosen, and B. Javidi “Multidimensional imaging by compressive
holography,” in Multi-Dimensional Imaging, P. Andrés Ed., Wiley, 2014.
[3] Y. Rivenson, A. Rot, S. Balber, A. Stern and J. Rosen, “Imaging through Partially Occluding Media
Using Compressive Sensing ”, Special issue: Optics in 2012, OPN 13 (12), p. 32 (2012).
Submitted Publications
[1] Y. Rivenson, M. Aviv Shalev and Zeev Zalevsky, "Compressive sensing approach for high resolution
viewpoint inference from a digital hologram," submitted.
[2] M. Aviv Shalev, Y. Rivenson, and Zeev Zalevsky, "Noninvasive wide-field optical bone imaging,"
submitted.
Publications in journal papers
[1] Y. Kashter, Y. Rivenson, A. Stern and J. Rosen, " Sparse Synthetic Aperture with Fresnel Elements (SSAFE) using Digital Incoherent Holograms," Opt. Exp., to be published.
[2] Y. Rivenson, M. Aviv Shalev, A. Weiss, H. Panet, and Z. Zalevsky, "Digital resampling diversity
sparsity constrained-wavefield reconstruction using single-magnitude image," Opt. Lett. 40,1842-1845
(2015).
[3] A. Stern and Y. Rivenson, "Theoretical bounds on Fresnel compressive holography performance,"
Chinese Optics Letters, 12 (6), 060022
[4] Y. Rivenson, B. Katz, R. Kelner and J. Rosen, "Single-channel in-line multi-modal digital holography,"
Opt. Lett., 38, 4719-4722 (2013).
[5] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern, and J. Rosen, “Reconstruction guarantees for compressive holographic
tomography,” Opt. Lett. 38, 2509-2511 (2013).
[6] A. Stern, Y. Zeltzer, and Y. Rivenson, "Quantization error and dynamic range considerations for
compressive imaging systems design," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 30, 1069-1077 (2013).
[7] Y. August, C. Vachman, Y. Rivenson, and A. Stern, "Compressive hyperspectral imaging by random
separable projections in both the spatial and the spectral domains," Appl. Opt. 52, D46-D54 (2013)
[8] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern and B. Javidi, “An overview of compressive sensing techniques applied in
holography [invited paper],” 52 (1), A423-A432 (2013).
[9] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern, and B. Javidi, "Improved depth resolution by single-exposure in-line
compressive holography," Appl. Opt. 52, A223-A231 (2013).
[10] A. Uzan, Y. Rivenson, and A. Stern, "Speckle denoising in digital holography by nonlocal means
filtering," Appl. Opt. 52, A195-A200 (2013).
[11] Y. Rivenson, A. Rot, S. Balber, A. Stern and J. Rosen, “Recovery of partially occluded objects by
applying compressive Fresnel holography,” Opt. Lett. 37, 1757-1759 (2012).
[12] Y. Rivenson and A. Stern, “Conditions for practicing compressive Fresnel holography,” Opt. Lett.
Vol. 36 (17) pp. 3365–3367 (2011).
[13] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern and J. Rosen, "Compressive multiple view projection incoherent holography,"
Opt. Express 19, 6109-6118 (2011). Chosen for republication in Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics,
6(4), May 2011.
[14] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern and B. Javidi, “Single exposure super-resolution compressive imaging by
double phase encoding,” Opt. Express 18, 15094-15103 (2010).
[15] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern and B. Javidi, "Compressive Fresnel Holography," IEEE/OSA Display
Technology, Journal of , vol.6, no.10, pp.506-509, Oct. 2010. doi: 10.1109/JDT.2010.2042276 .
[16] Y. Rivenson and A. Stern, ”Compressed imaging with separable sensing operator,” IEEE Signal
Processing Letters, 16(6), 449-452 (June 2009).
[17] E. Artyomov, Y. Rivenson, G. Levi, O. Yadid-Pecht, "Morton (Z) scan based real time variable
resolution CMOS image sensor," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 15
(7), July 2005, pp. 947 – 952.
Publications in conference proceedings
[1] A. Stern, V. Farber, A. Uzan, Y. Rivenson, "Digital speckle reduction: a comparison between
methods," Proc. SPIE 9117, Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2014, 91170C.
[2] B. Javidi, A. Mahalanobis, X. Xiao, Y. Rivenson, R. Horisaki, A. Stern, P. L. Carmona, M. Martinez, F.
Pla, J. Tanida, “Multi-dimensional Compressive Imaging,” [keynote] Proc. SPIE 8899, Emerging
Technologies in Security and Defence; and Quantum Security II; and Unmanned Sensor Systems X,
889904 (October 22, 2013).
[3] Y. Rivenson, B. Katz, R. Kelner, and J. Rosen, "Single-channel in-line multi-modal digital hologram
recorder," in Frontiers in Optics 2013 Postdeadline, I. Kang, D. Reitze, N. Alic, and D. Hagan, eds., OSA
Postdeadline Paper Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper FW6A.4.
[4] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson, Y. August, V. Farber, and Y. Oiknine, "Hyperspectral Compressive Imaging,"
[invited] IEEE WIO2013 - 12th Workshop on Information Optics, Tenerife, pp. 1-3.
[5] Y. Rivenson and A. Stern, “Theory of compressive sensing with quadratic phase systems and examples
in optics,” [invited] Proc. SPIE 8858, Wavelets and Sparsity XV, 885814.
[6] A. Stern, and Y. Rivenson, “Challenges in Optical Compressive Imaging and Some Solutions,” to be
presented at the 10th international conference on Sampling Theory and Applications SampTa 2013.
[7] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern and J. Rosen, "Super Resolution with Compressive Digital Holography," The
28th International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITCCSCC 2013), Special session on compressive sensing, Korea, 2013.
[8] A. Mahalanobis, X. Xiao, Y. Rivenson., R. Horisaki, A. Stern, J. Tanida, and B. Javidi, “3D imaging
with compressive sensing,” [invited] in Imaging and Applied Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online)
(Optical Society of America, 2013), paper IW1E.1.
[9] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern, and J. Rosen, "On the tomographic reconstruction resolution from compressive
holography," in Imaging and Applied Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America,
2013), paper CW1C.4.
[10] V. Farber, E. Eduard, Y. Rivenson, and A. Stern, “A study of the coherence parameter of the
progressive compressive imager based on Radon transform,” SPIE Independent Component Analyses,
Compressive Sampling, Wavelets, Neural Net, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering XI, April, Baltimore.
[11] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern, and B. Javidi, “Compressive sensing for improved depth discrimination in 3D
holographic reconstruction,” [invited] SPIE Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization and Display 2013,
May 2013, Baltimore.
[12] A. Stern, S. Evladov, Y. Kashter, and Y. Rivenson, “Anamorphic optics for compressive imaging and
compressive motion tracking”, to be presented at Information Optics (WIO), 2012 10th Euro-American
Workshop, August 2012.
[13] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson, and J. Rosen, “Compressive digital holography for reconstruction of partially
occluded objects”, to be presented at Information Optics (WIO), 2012 10th Euro-American Workshop,
August 2012.
[14] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson, J. Rosen, and J. Bahram, "Compressing Sensing Techniques for Holography:
Theory and Examples," [invited] in Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging, OSA Technical
Digest (Optical Society of America, 2012), paper DSu2C.1.
[15] Y. Rivenson, A. Rot, S. Balber, A. Stern, and J. Rosen, "Compressive Fresnel holography for object
reconstruction through an occluding plane," in Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging, OSA
Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2012), paper DW4C.7.
[16] A. Stern and Y. Rivenson, “Compressive sensing in holography”, [invited talk] presented at the 5th
International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS), Korea, Oct 2011.
[17] Y. Rivenson and S. Adrian, "What is the Reconstruction Range for Compressive Fresnel
Holography?," in Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical
Society of America, 2011), paper CWB6.
[18] Y. Rivenson and A. Stern, “Compressive sensing techniques in holography”, Information Optics
(WIO), 2011 10th Euro-American Workshop, June 2011. Best paper award.
[19] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson and B. Javidi, "Efficient compressive Fresnel holography," Information Optics
(WIO), 2010 9th Euro-American Workshop on , vol., no., pp.1-2, 12-16 July 2010.
doi:
10.1109/WIO.2010.5582507.
[20] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson and B. Javidi, "Compressive imaging for superresolution from a single
exposure," Information Optics (WIO), 2010 9th Euro-American Workshop on , vol., no., pp.1-2, 12-16 July
2010. doi: 10.1109/WIO.2010.5582488.
[21] Y. Rivenson, A. Stern, and J. Rosen, "Compressive Sensing Approach for Reducing the Number of
Exposures in Multiple View Projection Holography," in Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD)
(Optical Society of America, 2010), paper FThM2.
[22] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson, Gil Paz and Oleg Avremko, "Is super-resolution from a single image
possible?", in Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper
FThM2.
[23] Y. Rivenson and A. Stern, "An Efficient Method for Multi-Dimensional Compressive Imaging", in
Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America,
2009), paper CTuA4.
[24] A. Stern and O. Levi, and Y. Rivenson, "Optically Compressed Sensing by undersampling the polar
Fourier plane" , WIO' 09, Paris, July 2009.
[25] Y. Rivenson and A. Stern, "Practical compressive sensing of large images", Special Session on
Compressive Sensing and Sub-Nyquist Sampling, International Conference on Digital Signal Processing
(DSP 2009), July 2009.
[26] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson and B. Javidi, “Single exposure optically compressed imaging and visualization
using random aperture,” [invited] Seventh International Workshop on Information Optics, Annecy France,
June 2008.
[27] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson and B. Javidi, “Optically compressed image sensing using random aperture
coding,” [Keynote] at Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications
IV, SPIE, Orlando, March 2008.
[28] A. Stern, Y. Rivenson, and B. Javidi, “Single-shot compressive imaging,” invited paper presented at
Optics East, Sept. 2007.
[29] E. Artemov , Y. Rivenson, G. Levi, Orly Yadid-Pecht, "Morton (Z) Scan Based Real-Time Variable
Resolution CMOS Image Sensor," ICECS 2004 proceedings, 13-15 Dec. 2004, pp.145 - 148.