Ami Moyal
President, Afeka College of Engineering
AFEKA TEL-AVIV ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Prof. Ami Moyal has been President of Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering since 2014. Prior to his election, he founded and led the Afeka Center for Language Processing and headed of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering.
Before joining Afeka, Prof. Moyal was active in the speech processing hi-tech industry for 15 years, and held positions as VP Technology Dev., VP Business Dev. and CEO of NSC, Natural Speech Communication Ltd.
At Afeka, Prof. Moyal is carrying out his vision to transform engineering education and ensure the workforce readiness of Afeka graduates by modifying curricula, encouraging innovative pedagogy, integrating extra-curricular activities, restructuring learning and working spaces and building collaborations with the industry – all for the purpose of equipping students with the vital skills and knowledge required by modern engineers.
He holds a Ph.D. degree in the Electrical & Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Be'er-Sheva, Israel.