Noa Yehezkel, a BSc student at the Technion Electrical Engineering department, has won the iSocial Video Challenge award!

iSocial is a consortium that envisions the emergence of distributed and scalable overlay networking and distributed storage infrastructures that will provide support for open social networks and for innovative social network applications, preserving end-user privacy and information ownership.

The main objective of iSocial is to provide training for a next generation of researchers, computer scientists, and Web engineers, emphasizing on a strong combination of advanced understanding in both theoretical and experimental approaches, methodologies and tools that are required to develop Decentralized Online Social Networking (OSN) platforms.

Noa won the iSocial Video Challenge, whose focus was “Online Social Networks for Social Good”. Participants were required to propose a novel way (new features or services) of using OSNs which would benefit the users or society at large. She presented her work at iSocial’s workshop on Online Social Networks: Data Management and Privacy/Security, which took place in May, in Crete.

Noa Yehezkel is a third year BSc student and a member of the program for excellent undergraduate students.