Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Overview

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (or Technion) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. It was founded under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire in 1912, more than 35 years before Israel declared independence. The Technion is the oldest university in Israel and ranked amongst the top universities nationwide and in the Middle East.

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Key Statistics

The institute comprises 18 faculties. These include the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, and the Faculty of Humanities and Arts.

Technion has a student population of 13,703, with 9,251 undergraduates, 3,435 postgraduates, and 1,004 doctoral students. It employs 565 faculty members. The university has multiple campuses located in Haifa, Tel Aviv, New York City, and Guangdong, China.

The Technion library system is composed of the Elyachar Central Library and fourteen departmental libraries. Collectively, they provide access to a collection of one million volumes and more than 10,000 electronic journals, hundreds of databases, electronic books, and digital journal archives.

Other Technion – Israel Institute of Technology key statistics include its distinguished faculty and alumni members, including Nobel Prize in chemistry laureates Arieh Warshel, Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover, Dan Shechtman, and Rothschild Prize in Physics awardee Asher Peres.

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Research

Research at the university is funded by various national and international agencies, including Facebook, Franklin Institute, the Gilbert Foundation, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund, and more.

The university's top three research fields are computer science, mathematics, and physics. Its researchers have published in publications like Physical Review Letters, European Physical Journal C, and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Its researchers had been invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the International Symposium on Information Theory, and the International Cryptology Conference.

The most cited publication from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology research is Aad et al.’s (2012) “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC,” published in Physics Letters B, with a total of 19,704 citations to date. The second most cited publication is Aad et al.’s book (2020) “The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.” It has received a total of 17,964 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Aharon et al.’s (2006) “K-SVD: An algorithm for designing overcomplete dictionaries for sparse representation,” published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 10,1999 times so far.

The research centers of Technion include the Asher Space Research Institute, the Grand Water Research Institute, the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, the Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, the Technion Autonomous Systems Program, and the Technion Computer Engineering Center.