He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the Technion, specializing in Structural Engineering. Oded received his Ph.D. degree from DTU – Technical University of Denmark at 2011, after which he stayed for another year as a post-doctoral fellow at the same university. He joined the Technion at 2012 and his main research field is structural optimization, with particular focus on topology optimization techniques. He is currently a visiting scholar at UCSD, while on sabbatical from Technion.