Rafi Nave
| Rafi Nave | |
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| Born | 20 December 1949 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Israeli, Austrian |
| 🏫 Education | BS.c. and MS.c. in Electrical Engineering from Technion |
| 💼 Occupation | Engineer, high-tech manager, researcher |
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Rafi (Raphael) Nave (born: 20 December 1949; Hebrew: רפי (רפאל) נוה) is an Israeli engineer and former manager in the Israeli high-tech industry,[1] who is a senior researcher in the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, Technion.[2]
Early life and education[edit]
Rafi Nave was born in Tel-Aviv. He studied in Ironi Hei high school and enlisted in the IDF in 1967. Nave received B.Sc. (with honors) in Electrical Engineering from Technion in 1974, and M.sc. in Electrical Engineering from Technion in 1979.[3]
Career[edit]
Nave started working in Intel Israel as chip design engineer in 1974. He became project manager in 1977 and led the team that developed the Intel 8087 math coprocessor.[4] In 1980 Nave was promoted to general manager of Intel Israel, managing about 200 engineers at the end of his five-year role.[5] Nave moved in 1986 to Intel Santa Clara, California and became Central Engineering Manager. He returned to Intel Israel in 1989 and served in various roles, including Corp Design for Manufacturing manager and End User Components Division (EUCD) Engineering Manager.
After leaving Intel in 1995 Nave continued to work in the Israeli high tech industry as senior manager. He was, among others, vice president of R&D at NDS, vice president and CTO of Tower Semiconductor, where he supervised all the customer services activities.[5][6] He was also senior vice president of R&D at Given Imaging,[3] leading the development and delivery of the company’s capsule endoscopy products PillCam C2 (for the colon) and PillCam SB3 (for the small bowel).
In 2014 Nave joined Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He headed the Bronica Entrepreneurship Center, and three years later he became a senior researcher at the Technion-based Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research. His research focuses on academia-industry relations, industry 4.0 and analysis of start-ups successes and failures.[2]
Honors and awards[edit]
- Global Industry Leader Award - 2021 awarded at ChipEx2021 conference for “significant contribution to the Israeli Semiconductor Industry”.[7]
- Rothschild Prize for Industrial Developers - 1990 - Awarded by the President of the State of Israel for the Development of Intel’s Math Co-Processors family.[8]
- Intel Achievement Award - 1989.[1]
- IDF Bible Champion - 1970 - first prize in the Israeli Army Bible Championship - awarded by the President of the State of Israel.[9]
Patents[edit]
- US4338675A - Numeric data processor, 1982[10]
- US4484259A - Fraction bus for use in a numeric data processor, 1984[11]
- US4509144A - Programmable bidirectional shifter, 1985[12]
Selected publications[edit]
- (with Shlomo Maital) Aspiration, Inspiration, Perspiration: How Technion Faculty and Graduates Fuse Creativity and Technology to Change the World. Technion, 2021. ISBN 978-965-599-716-3[13]
- Advanced use of TV set top boxes. R Nave, Y Tsuria - IEE conference publication, 1997 - IET
- Implementation of transcendental functions on a numerics processor. R Nave - Microprocessing and Microprogramming, 1983 - Elsevier
- A numeric data processor. R Nave, J Palmer - 1980 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1980 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personal life[edit]
Nave is married to Nitsa. They have 3 children and 5 grandchildren, and live in Haifa.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The 1st Convention of Electrical & Electronics engineering Students in Israel (IEEEIs 2015), Bar Ilan University
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rafi Nave, Samuel Neaman Institute
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Raphael Nave, Bloomberg
- ↑ Rafi Nave: Hi-tech pioneer, Jerusalem Post
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Tower Appoints Intel Vet as VP, EDN
- ↑ Tower in talks with SemIndia, HSMC, EE Times
- ↑ Prof. Meir Feder, Billy Harvaya, Nafea Bshara and Rafi Nave - winners of Global Industry Leader Award at ChipEx2021 (in Hebrew), chiportal
- ↑ Award for Industrial Developers to Intel and Optrotec (in Hebrew), Maariv
- ↑ Staff sergeant Rafi Neurath Bible champion of the IDF (in Hebrew), LaMerhav
- ↑ US4338675A Numeric data processor, Espacenet
- ↑ US4484259A Fraction bus for use in a numeric data processor, Espacenet
- ↑ US4509144A Programmable bidirectional shifter, Espacenet
- ↑ How Israel’s leading technology institute drives so much innovation, Jerusalem Post
External links[edit]
- Webinar on early cancer detection - The NHS and Israel, Technion UK
- The Hi-Tech Nation with Raphael Nave, YouTube
- Nave’s Technopreneurship Lecture Series, Bilkent University, Turkey
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