Yariv Z. Levy Currently a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, I'm affiliated with the Biologically Inspired Neural & Dynamical Systems laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Hava Siegelmann.

• Modeling Addiction in Terms of Fluctuating Neurotransmitters within the Reward System
• Identification and Control of Intrinsic Bias in a Multiscale Computational Model of Drug Addiction
  NEW Accepted to ACM SAC 2010 track on Advances in Computer Simulation

• H. T. Siegelmann, D. Levy, Y. Z. Levy (2009). Addiction as a non-monotonic computational process: toward in silico rehabilitation. Submitted.

• Y.Z. Levy, D. Levy, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2009). Ceasing the use of narcotics without treatments in the context of a multiscale computational model of addiction. 6th annual meeting of the Society for Autonomous Neurodynamics, Principles of Autonomous Neurodynamics 2009 (SAND VI), La Jolla, CA, USA, July 2009.
  
  
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• Y.Z. Levy, D. Levy, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2009). Neuropsychology, cognition, and behavior of drug addiction: A non-monotonic multiscale computational model. 13th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS 2009), Boston, MA, USA, May 2009.
  
  
  [abstract] - Oral presentation

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• Y.Z. Levy^∗, D. Levy^∗, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2009). Drug Addiction: a Computational Multiscale Model Combining Neuropsychology, Cognition, and Behavior. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2009), Porto, Portugal, January 2009.
  
  
  [article] - [BibTeX] - Oral presentation
  
  ^∗ Authors with equal contributions
  Also appeared as: Technical Report UM-CS-2008-34, Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, September 2008.
  

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• Y.Z. Levy, D. Levy, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2008). Drug Addiction as a Non-monotonic Process: a Multiscale Computational Model. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2008), Singapore, December 2008.
  
  
  [article] - [SpringerLink] - Poster presentation

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• Organizing and Scientific Committee at the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Autonomous Neurodynamics, Principles of Autonomous Neurodynamics 2009 (SAND VI), La Jolla, CA, USA, July 2009.
• Graduate Student Representative at the UMass Research Council (since April 2009)
• CS Candidate week-end Committee and Volunteer (2006-2008)
• Laboratory webmaster

• BIOSIGNALS 2009 Travel Grant
• UMass Graduate Student Travel Grant 2008
• Invited participant at the 2nd Okinawa Conference on Mathematics and Biology : Multi-Scale Phenomena In Biology, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa, Japan, November 2008
• Departmental nomination for the 2007 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award
• Invited participant at the Experimental & Computational Neurodynamics Summer School, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP), La Jolla, CA, USA, August 2005

I earned my BSc and MSc degrees from the Computer Science Department at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland.

During my BSc degree I learned fundamentals concepts of computer science engineering: strong mathematical knowledge and foundation of hardware and software development.

During my MSc degree I focused my curriculum in computer science related to biology: Artificial Neural Network, Genetic Systems and Programming, Bio-inspired Adaptive Machines and Bioinformatics. I decided to concentrate my studies on the field of Computational Neuroscience and I joined the Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry under the supervision of Prof. Henry Markram.

In Fall 2005, I joined the Biologically Inspired Neural & Dynamical Systems laboratory, in order to expand my scientific knowledge and to further improve my research experience, under the supervision of Prof. Hava Siegelmann.

Complete CV available upon request.

In this case, please be aware that I'm not a poker player, I do not have a Facebook profile, and I do not hold an online photo gallery.