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Board of Advisors

Dr. Oved Kedem

Dr. Kedem is the founding Director of Educational Projects at the Davidson Institute for Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science. For over 15 years he has been an expert on science curriculum design for K-12 classrooms and workshops. His work includes training teachers, designing educational labs, and multimedia development. In addition, Dr. Kedem designed and developed a series of science education films used for television. Earlier in his career, Dr. Kedem taught science for 12 years at the university level.

Dr. Kedem received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Salford, England, and holds a Masters of Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science from the Science Teaching Department.

Radu Mihaescu

Mr. Mihaescu graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in Mathematics. While at Princeton , he took part in the Putnam Mathematical Competition, placing 7th in the nation. At Princeton he was awarded the George B. Covington and Middleton Miller prizes for excellence in Mathematics. He has done work on speaker identification with DARPA & Department of Defense funding, and at Hewlett Packard. Currently, Mr. Mihaescu is finishing his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at University of California , Berkeley , focusing on applications of statistics and theoretical computer science to computational biology and bioinformatics. He is a recipient of the Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

Jessica Dines Ph.D

An expert in the field of biotechnology, Jessica is a researcher at Bio-Rad Laboratories.  In her role, she represents the company in conferences and other professional gathering around the world speaking about the field of protein measurements.  Jessica earned her Ph.D in Genetics from the University of California, Berkeley.