Avi Zadok received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel in 2008. In 2007-2009 he was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Department of Applied Physics of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He joined the Faculty of Engineering of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel in 2009, and was appointed an Associate Professor in 2013. Dr. Zadok’s research interests are in fiber-optic sensors, microwave photonics, all-optical signal processing, and photonic devices in silicon and chalcogenide glass. He is a co-author of 120 papers in scientific journals and proceedings of international conferences, and serves in the technical program committees of several conferences in electro-optics. Dr. Zadok received the Krill Award of the Wolf Foundation in 2013, and a Starter Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2015. He is a member of the Israel Young Academy of Science.