Hagit Messer Yaron
Hagit Messer Yaron (Hebrew: חגית מסר-ירון; born May 13, 1953) is an Israeli electrical engineer and businesswoman.Messer Yaron is the first woman in Israel to be appointed as a full professor of electrical engineering.Messer Yaron graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1977, and completed her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering there in 1984, under the supervision of Yeheskel Bar-Ness.Messer Yaron focuses on statistical signal processing with applications to source localization, communication and environmental monitoring.In 2006, Messer Yaron was the first to suggest using commercial microwave links for rainfall monitoring,[2] and become the world pioneer in opportunistic sensing of the environment.