Daniel Ramot () is Israeli-born American

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, and

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. He is the co-founder and CEO of TransitTech company,

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Early life and education

Ramot was born in Israel, attended elementary school in

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, and high school at the United World College of SE Asia in Singapore. Ramot is a graduate of the Israel Defense Force's

Talpiot program Talpiot (, literally 'turrets' or 'magnificently built') is an Israeli neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem, established in 1922 by Zionist pioneers. It was built as a garden suburb on land purchased by the Tel Aviv-based Palestine Land Deve ...

, this is also where he met Oren Shoval, who would later become his co-founding partner. As part of that program, he received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics at

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. From 1996 to 2002, Ramot served in the

Israeli Air Force The Israeli Air Force (IAF; , commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Indep ...

where he developed avionic systems for

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and

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. During this time, he also completed a Master of Science in electrical engineering from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

. In 2002, Ramot moved to the US to pursue a graduate degree in neuroscience. He received a PhD in Neuroscience from

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in 2007. Ramot is quoted as saying that "understanding the human brain nervous system is a critical aspect that drives the economy". During his doctoral research, Ramot was awarded several scholarships, including the Dan David Prize scholarship in 2004 and the Albion Walter Hewlett Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Ramot's PhD dissertation focused on the molecular and cellular basis of thermosensation and the behavioral mechanisms of

thermoregulation Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different. A thermoconforming organism, by contrast, simply adopts the surrounding temperature ...

. From 2008 until 2012, Ramot was a Director at D.E. Shaw Research, where he was involved in building supercomputers designed to discover new pharmaceutical drugs.

Business

In 2012, Ramot teamed up with fellow Talpiot alumnus Oren Shoval, to assist with building the algorithm and technology and eventually to co-found

in New York City. Via is a global transportation technology company that builds software for public and private mobility systems, last-mile deliveries, and transportation planning services. It operates in more than 35 countries, where its technology powers microtransit, paratransit, school bus, transit planning, and autonomous vehicle networks. As of March 2021, Via is valued at US$2.8 billion.

Selected publications

* Ramot, D., MacInnis, B. & Goodman, MB. Bidirectional temperature-sensing by a single thermosensory neuron in ''C. elegans''. ''Nat Neurosci'' 11, 908–915 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2157 *Ramot D, MacInnis BL, Lee HC, Goodman MB. Thermotaxis is a robust mechanism for thermoregulation in Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes. ''The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience''. 28: 12546–57. PMID 19020047 *Chalasani SH, Chronis N, Tsunozaki M, Gray JM, Ramot D, Goodman MB, Bargmann CI. Dissecting a circuit for olfactory behaviour in Caenorhabditis elegans (Nature (2007) 450, (63-70)) ''Nature''. 451: 102. * David E. Shaw, J.P. Grossman, Joseph A. Bank, Brannon Batson, J. Adam Butts, Jack C. Chao, Martin M. Deneroff, Ron O. Dror, Amos Even, Christopher H. Fenton, Anthony Forte, Joseph Gagliardo, Gennette Gill, Brian Greskamp, C. Richard Ho, Douglas J. Ierardi, Lev Iserovich, Jeffrey S. Kuskin, Richard H. Larson, Timothy Layman, Li-Siang Lee, Adam K. Lerer, Chester Li, Daniel Killebrew, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Shark Yeuk-Hai Mok, Mark A. Moraes, Rolf Mueller, Lawrence J. Nociolo, Jon L. Peticolas, Terry Quan, Daniel Ramot, John K. Salmon, Daniele P. Scarpazza, U. Ben Schafer, Naseer Siddique, Christopher W. Snyder, Jochen Spengler, Ping Tak Peter Tang, Michael Theobald, Horia Toma, Brian Towles, Benjamin Vitale, Stanley C. Wang, and Cliff Young, "Anton 2: Raising the Bar for Performance and Programmability in a Special-Purpose Molecular Dynamics Supercomputer," ''Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14)'', Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2014, pp. 41–53. * Butts JA, Batson B, Chao JC, Deneroff MM, Dror RO, Fenton CH, Forte A, Gagliardo J, Gill G, Greskamp B, Grossman JP, Ho CR, Kuskin JS, Larson RH, Layman T, ... ... Ramot D, et al. The ANTON 2 chip a second-generation ASIC for molecular dynamics ''2014 Ieee Hot Chips 26 Symposium, Hcs 2014''. * Ramot D, Milo R, Friedman M, Kandel A. On fuzzy correlations. ''Ieee Transactions On Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part B, Cybernetics : a Publication of the Ieee Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society''. 31: 381–90. PMID 18244801 * Ramot D, Milo R, Friedman M, Kandel A. Complex fuzzy sets ''Ieee Transactions On Fuzzy Systems''. 10: 171–186.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramot, Daniel Israeli businesspeople 21st-century Israeli engineers Stanford University School of Medicine alumni Tel Aviv University alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Talpiot program alumni