The courses I taught
Teaching
Nearly twenty years in the classroom — from tutoring undergraduate mathematics, through academic courses in the Faculty of Exact Sciences, to workshops inside organisations and guest lectures abroad. The list is grouped by the kind of setting; detailed syllabi will be added to this page.
In brief
What I taught
Courses & modules
Some of these I wrote from scratch — objectives, syllabus, materials and assignments; others are professional modules I built for training programmes and for the Projects Center.
Academic courses
Faculty of Exact Sciences, Holon Institute of Technology · 2016–2025
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
HIT — Faculty of Exact Sciences
From first principles through to building geographic applications.
- GIS principles and data sources
- Standards in the field
- Spatial analysis
- Application development
Technological innovation
HIT — Faculty of Exact Sciences
High-tech trends, spotting opportunities, and the road from idea to product.
- Industry trends
- Identifying needs
- From idea to POC
Software development
HIT — Faculty of Exact Sciences
Development processes, tooling and the working methods industry actually uses.
Project management
HIT — Faculty of Exact Sciences
Planning, executing and controlling development projects in a multidisciplinary setting.
Courses I wrote from scratch
Full syllabus, materials and assignments — my own work
GIS applications
A course for users and operators
Builds a complete understanding of the systems that manage information whose location matters — alongside their limits and the ways round them. Weekly three-hour sessions, each pairing theory with hands-on work in open-source tools.
- What GIS is: principles and geographic data sources
- Trends and application domains for location-based information
- The open-source world — installation and setting up a working environment
- Interactive mapping, moving from 2D to 3D
- Big Data in a geographic context and multi-layer visualisation
- Finding and classifying open data sources
- Building databases and running multi-platform GIS projects
Introduction to machine learning and AI
A nine-module course
From motivation to ethics, with the emphasis on understanding the algorithms in practice.
- Introduction to machine learning
- Background and motivation
- Graphs and search algorithms
- Positive conditioning and reward prediction
- Introduction to data with ML
- Regression
- Decision trees
- Clustering
- Ethics in machine learning
Big Data
A six-module course
From framing the problem to running algorithms over a cloud analysis pipeline.
- Introduction to Big Data
- Structured and unstructured data
- The pipeline to analysis
- Big Data on the cloud
- Data loading techniques
- Techniques and algorithms
Professional modules
Lectures I built for the training programmes of the Projects Center and the PBLogic association
Introduction to project management
Training module
The project life cycle, planning, scheduling and control.
Systems analysis
Training module
Gathering requirements, functional specification and writing the spec document.
Risk analysis
Training module
Identifying, assessing and treating project risk.
Project documentation
Training module
Documentation across the project life cycle as the condition for folding the output into a core product.
Secure development
Training module
Building information-security thinking into the development process itself.
Introduction to entrepreneurship
Training module
From idea to validation, and from validation to product.
Trends in Israeli high-tech
Training module
The map of the industry, its players and its growth areas.
Defining and managing success factors and KPIs
Training module
How to define measurable success metrics at the start of a project and track them through to the end — what separates a project that ships from one that stalls.
Workshops inside organisations
Training I delivered to staff and to the management tier
AI in the workplace
Survey of Israel · March 2026
A practical workshop: from the perceptron to ChatGPT, the four rules of a prompt, live demos by function, grounded scepticism about hallucinations and information security, and vibe coding.
Cyber risk management
Survey of Israel · 2023–present
Courses and workshops for activity managers, as part of embedding the risk management framework.
GIS and field mapping workshop
North Macedonia · three days
Mapping methods learned by doing: GIS lectures, open-source training, fieldwork and database updating.
International lectures
Guest lectures and academic consulting at institutions abroad
Innovative GIS trends — maximising the integration of science and mapping technologies
National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent · 90 minutes, in Russian
How the growth rate of information changes what is demanded of professionals and of the R&D approach — with examples of open-source solutions combining several platforms.
- GIS
- Agile versus waterfall
- Technological liquidity
- Remote sensing
- Big Data
- Artificial intelligence
- Open source
3D geomodelling in geology
Uzbekistan · courses and consulting
Supporting the establishment of a 3D modelling laboratory in the Faculty of Geology and Geographic Information Systems.
Project-based learning and industry collaboration
Azerbaijan and North Macedonia
Presenting the Projects Center model and how to implement it at other institutions.
Detailed syllabi for these courses will be added to this page.
Timeline
Teaching roles
- 2016–2025
Lecturer and Head of the Projects Center, Faculty of Sciences
HIT — Holon Institute of Technology
Lectures in GIS, innovation, software development and project management; mentored hundreds of student projects; managed and trained ~20 mentors and domain coordinators.
- 2009–2010
Teaching Assistant
Ariel University Center of Samaria
Tutored faculty courses, emphasising accessibility of the material and student success.
- 2007–2016
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Sciences
HIT — Holon Institute of Technology
Among the faculty’s most highly regarded TAs for knowledge, openness and willingness to help — per recommendations from senior lecturers.
Approach
How I teach
The foundation is an uncommon combination: mathematical depth from the first degree, current applied knowledge from the field, and the ability to join them so the student sees why the theory matters.
- A real project first. A short theoretical part sets a common foundation, and from there the work is on a problem somebody genuinely needs solved.
- Small multidisciplinary groups of up to five, guided jointly by a professional instructor and an industry representative.
- Transparent, well-defined success metrics set in advance — the student knows what their work is measured against.
- The output is a working prototype, documented to best practice so it can be folded into the partner company’s core product.
- Teaching in four languages lets me reach audiences across Central Asia and Eastern Europe in their own language, with no intermediary.
“The outputs of the students’ project-based training are enormous and have transformed the face of the Faculty of Exact Sciences.”
Happy to talk
Get in touch
Open to executive roles, academic collaborations, technology consulting and board positions.