TECHNION ALUMNI GO GLOBAL

Dr. Fashionista | Maia Hirsch

Maia Hirsch is a Technion-trained mechanical engineer, and first year robotics PhD candidate at Cornell University, where she researches wearable haptics; while also - creating robotic fashion pieces that have been showcased at New York Fashion Week. At only 24 years of age, she is already impressing many, both in tech and in fashion, with her creations that have gone viral on social media; and in this episode we hear from her about such varied topics as: living in four different countries, not always by choice; what will astronauts on mars, or users in the metaverse, actually feel on their skin? How covid, the war in Israel, and the situation in Venezuela completely upended her life – but also somehow gave her some great opportunities; and how tech can help us receive a hug from a loved one, on the other side of the world. Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA [https://www.shemma.co.il/] Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ [https://alumni.technion.ac.il/] And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni [https://linktr.ee/technionalumni] You can follow Maia on Instagram here - @MaiaHirschLab || Fashion Robotics [https://www.instagram.com/maiahirschlab/]

Mother Tongue | Dr. Yael Pilowsky Bankirer

Dr. Yael Pilowsky Bankirer is a psychoanalyst and a poet, based in Cambridge, UK. She is a medical doctor and holds a PhD in Gender Studies and psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London, and a co-editor of Sitegeist - A journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. This episode is a little different: we talk more than we usually do, about our inner lives, about consciousness and emotions… about gender and philosophy and poetry… with a guest who started out studying internal medicine, and then took turn after turn through psychiatry and psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy and more. In this conversation, we cover such far-ranging topics as: circumcision, menopause, and living abroad with Hebrew speaking kids. As a special treat - we even get a chance to hear some of Yael's poetry. Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA [https://www.shemma.co.il/] Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ [https://alumni.technion.ac.il/] And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni [https://linktr.ee/technionalumni] You can find Yael Pilowsky Bankirer's book of poetry (in Hebrew) - here [https://bookscatharsis.com/product/%D7%A9%D7%A1%D7%A2/]. And her book about circumcision in Freud’s writing is available here [https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalytic-Explorations-of-the-Masculine-and-the-Maternal-Uncovering-the-Image-of-Circumcision-in-Freuds-Works/PilowskyBankirer/p/book/9781032495392].

From CEO to Restaurant Cook... and Back | Assaf Glazer

Dr. Assaf Glazer is CEO at Vinst, an exciting Israeli foodtech startup that offers an AI-powered cooking app, to help users organize recipes, personalize meals, and elevate the home-cooking experience… as well as a platform where you can print your very own family cookbook. A serial entrepreneur in a variety of areas where he finds passion, Glazer previously founded Nanit, a company that, among other things, raised over $75M in capital, and very successfully develops smart baby monitors - integrating AI and sleep science to help overall wellbeing for babies.   In this episode, recorded in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Glazer talks about how Covid sent him on a journey that included culinary school and restaurant work; and how going through the Oct. 7th attack at a farming community in southern Israel, led him to put together a very meaningful project - that also sounds quite delicious! Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA [https://www.shemma.co.il/] Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ [https://alumni.technion.ac.il/] And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni [https://linktr.ee/technionalumni]

Blazing Trails in Japan | Or Marantz

Or Marantz is a doctorate candidate at the Nagoya University, specializing in sustainable communities development in rural Japan. She also serves as ‘open innovation analyst’ at NGLI, which is an Israeli company that provides services of open innovation to Japanese clients. In this episode, she talks about the different things she learned from working with Italian and Japanese colleagues, the link between digital nomads and de-population, as well as what she saw on the Pacific Crest Trail... that made her seek out a career in renewable energy. Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA [https://www.shemma.co.il/] Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ [https://alumni.technion.ac.il/] And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni [https://linktr.ee/technionalumni]

Quality Control | Helen Buchumensky

Helen Buchumensky is Director of standards and compliance, and head of global functional safety, at ARM Semiconductors & Automotive Operations... and of course, a proud Technion alum! In this is episode, she talks about starting music festivals, writing for teenage magazines, and soviet professionalism... She also tells us all about the concept of Functional Safety, and how quality control in the billions and billions of microchips all around us, could really save lives. Finally, she talks about her social activism days, as a student... she's our first ever guest to describe the Technion as a party school :) Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA [https://www.shemma.co.il/] Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ [https://alumni.technion.ac.il/] And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni [https://linktr.ee/technionalumni]