Shai Kendler Received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew university Jerusalem in physical chemistry. He studied optical and mass spectrometry of van der Waals clusters in supersonic jet. After completing his doctoral studies in 1996 he moved to Israel institute for biological research, Ness Ziona Israel (IIBR) and focused on field portable detection using thermal analysis, optical and ion mobility spectrometry. In 2005 he was a visiting scholar in University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he studied MEMS for SVOC vapor separation and detection. He is now a visiting professor in the Environmental, Water & Agricultural Engineering Division, Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He is interested in deep and machine learning for environmental, agriculture and medical applications