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Shelly Levy-Tzedek

Shelly Levy-Tzedek

Shelly Levy-Tzedek is a full professor and the director of the Cognition, Aging & Rehabilitation Laboratory at Ben-Gurion University.

Prof. Levy-Tzedek completed her undergraduate studies, summa cum laude, at UC Berkeley, where she won the Bioengineering departmental citation medal. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she completed her M.S. and her Ph.D. degrees as an MIT Presidential Fellow and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow, in the Biomedical Engineering department.

Chosen as one of Israel’s most promising 40-under-40 by The Marker Magazine for 2016, she also won the 2016 award from the Paedagogica Foundation’s special program entitled “Initiative for Excellence in the Negev”. In 2018, she won the Toronto Prize for excellence in research. In 2019 she participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Verification and Synthesis of Human-Robot Interaction. In the academic year 2018-19, Prof. Levy-Tzedek was a guest professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany as part of the Marie S. Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship Program, supported by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.  In 2023 she was a visiting scholar at KTH’s Digital Futures center, in 2024 she gave a keynote address at the IEEE RO-MAN conference, and in 2025 was a Senior Fellow of the Human Rights Research Consortium at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Freiburg (FRIAS).

Her lab team researches how to best employ robotics to facilitate a fast and efficient rehabilitation process. She has employed the participatory-design approach in the study of diverse technologies – from rehabilitation robots to sex robots. In recent years, she has been co-leading a global initiative to promote regulation of social robots for vulnerable populations. She takes a multi-disciplinary approach to her studies: the students on her team come from varied backgrounds, including physical therapy, engineering and psychology, and she collaborates with colleagues from Canada, the UK, the United States, Germany and Sweden who come from diverse fields such as Industrial Engineering, Psychology, Computer Science, Robotics, Anthropology, Education, Law and Philosophy.

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    Ben Gurion University
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    Full Professor and Director of the Cognition, Aging & Rehabilitation Laboratory
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