Hospital: Senior Researcher and Neurophysiologist
Functional Neurosurgery Unit
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (”Ichilov ")
Academic: Senior Lecturer
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Sackler School of Medicine
and
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Tel Aviv University
E-mail: arielta@tauex.tau.ac.il
Tel.: 03-6974949
1992 – 1994 B.Sc, Magna Cum Laude, Mathematics and Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
1995 – 1996 M.Sc, Summa Cum Laude, Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
1999 – 2004 Ph.D, Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
PRIZES
1992 Dean’s list of honors, Tel-Aviv University.
1994 Dean’s list of honors, Tel-Aviv University.
1997 Maus Prize, the highest prize for an M.Sc (or Ph.D) student in Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University.
2001 Travel award for participation at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Kauai, Hawaii.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 – 2011 Post-doctoral fellow, Dept. of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Israeli universities (Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Technion).
2012 Researcher, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Technion.
04/2011 – present Neurophysiologist in DBS surgeries, Functional Neurosurgery Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
10/2012 – present Senior Researcher, Center for the study of Movement, Cognition, and Mobility, Dept. of Neurology and Functional Neurosurgery Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
06/2014 – present Senior Lecturer, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University.
1. Motor-cognitive processes, especially gait and speech, in the human brain at the single neuron level.
2. Brain-machine interfaces.
3. Intra-cranial electroencephalography (IC-EEG) of motor-cognitive processes.
Original Articles:
1. A. Tankus, Y. Yeshurun, and N. Intrator.
Face detection by direct convexity estimation.
Pattern Recognition Letters, 18:913–922, 1997.
2. A. Tankus and Y. Yeshurun.
Convexity-based visual camouflage breaking.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 82(3):208–237, 2001.
3. A. Tankus and Y. Yeshurun.
Scene-consistent detection of feature points in video sequences.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 97(1):1–29, 2005.
4. A. Tankus, N. Sochen, and Y. Yeshurun.
Shape-from-Shading under perspective projection.
International Journal of Computer Vision, 63(1):21–43, 2005.
5. A. Tankus and Y. Yeshurun.
Computer vision, camouflage breaking and countershading.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364(1516):529–536, 2009.
6. A. Tankus, Y. Yeshurun, T. Flash, and I. Fried.
Encoding of speed and direction of movement in the human supplementary motor area.
Journal of Neurosurgery, 110(6):1304–1316, 2009.
7. A. Tankus, Y. Yeshurun, and I. Fried.
An automatic measure for classifying clusters of suspected spikes into single cells versus multiunits.
Journal of Neural Engineering 6(5) 056001, 2009.
8. T. Barsky, A. Tankus, and Y. Yeshurun.
Classification of fingerprint images to real vs. spoof.
International Journal of Biometrics, 4(1):1–21, 2012
9. A. Tankus and I. Fried.
Visuomotor Coordination and Motor Representation by Human Temporal Lobe Neurons.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(3):600–610, 2012.
10. A. Tankus, I. Fried and S. Shoham.
Sparse decoding of multiple spike trains for brain-machine interfaces.
Journal of Neural Engineering. 9:054001, 2012.
11. A. Tankus, I. Fried and S. Shoham.
Structured neuronal encoding and decoding of human speech features.
Nature Communications, 3:1015, 2012.
12. R. Mecca, A. Tankus, A. Wetzler, and A.M. Bruckstein.
A direct differential approach to photometric stereo with perspective viewing.
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 7(2):579–612, 2014.
13. O. Perez, R. Mukamel, A. Tankus, Y. Yeshurun and I. Fried.
Preconscious prediction of a driver’s decision using intracranial recordings.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2015. Accepted.
Review Articles:
1. A. Tankus, I. Fried and S. Shoham.
Cognitive-Motor Brain-Machine Interfaces.
Journal of Physiology, Paris, 108(1):38–44, 2014.
2. A. Tankus.
The human epileptic neuron.
Journal of the Israeli Neurological Association, 14:36–37, 2013 [In Hebrew].
Chapters in Books:
1. A. Tankus, Y. Yeshurun, and N. Intrator.
Face detection and camouflage breaking by direct convexity estimation.
In V. Cantoni, V. Gesu, A. Setti, and D. Tegolo, editors,
Human and Machine Perception 2: Emergence, Attention and Creativity,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, pages 59–70, 1999.
2. A. Tankus, N. Sochen, and Y. Yeshurun.
Shape-from-shading by iterative fast marching for vertical and oblique light sources.
In R. Klette, R. Kozera, J. Weickert, and L. Noakes, editors,
Geometric Properties from Incomplete Data, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pages 237– 258, 2005.
3. A. Tankus and Y. Yeshurun.
Camouflage-breaking mathematical operator and countershading.
In M. Stevens and S. Merilaita, editors, Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function, Cambridge University Press, pages 73–86, 2011.
Items in Encylopedias:
1. A. Tankus, N. Sochen, and Y. Yeshurun.
Shape from Shading.
In B.W. Wah, J. Cavallaro, T.-H. Lai, N. Zhong, F. Bastani, J. Tsai, J. Franco, M.
Shah, R.W.H. Lau, M. Berry, J. Impagliazzo, editors,Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pages 2511–2522, 2009.
