“…I was very lucky to work with her and Drs Kambhamettu (University of Delaware) and Marai (University of Illinois Chicago), as well as colleagues from MGI and Wormbase databases, in a project aimed at incorporating image-based features into biomedical document classification. Not only was this a very fruitful research experience ( Jiang et al , 2019 ; Li et al , 2021 ; Trabucco et al , 2021 ), but also a great opportunity to work with an outstanding researcher, who was very rigorous, and had strong work ethics. This sentiment was echoed by PI Dr Marai, ‘I met Hagit when I was a graduate student, and we became friends.…”