Leadership Team
Center Chair
Prof. Mor Peleg
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: Medical informatics, data and knowledge integration, knowledge representation and ontologies, decision-support systems, modeling biological and clinical processes.
Data Scientist
Tomer Sidi
DSRC Consulting Unit
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computational Structural Biology.
Data Scientist
Igor Kleiner
DSRC Consulting Unit
Research Areas:Queuing theory, Image processing.
Multidisciplinary Liaison
Dr. Daniel Sher
Department of Marine Biology
Research Areas:
Bioinformatics, marine data, phenotypic analysis
Public Sector and Industrial Liaison
Prof. Hagit Hel-Or
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas:
Computational Human Behavior, Computer Vision, Machine learning
Scientific Committee Member
Prof. Ilan Shimshoni
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: computer vision, 3D data analysis, applications for archaeology & medicine.
Scientific Committee Member
Prof. Philip Tzvi Reiss
Department of Statistics
Research Areas:
Functional data analysis, semiparametric regression, neuroimaging data analysis, psychometrics
Faculty Members
Computer Science
Dr. Adi Akavia
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Security, Cryptography, Safe Calculation, and Big Data algorithms.
Dr. Dan Feldman
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Data reduction and summarization methods for big, streaming and distributed data.
Prof. Daniel Keren
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Probabilistic Pattern Recognition.
Prof. Hagit Hel-Or
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Computational Human Behavior, Computer Vision, Machine learning
Prof. Ilan Newman
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Fast big-data algorithms: Property testing, coresets.
Dr. Margarita Osadchy
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Data Privacy.
Prof. Yosi Ben-Asher
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas:algorithms to identify performance and energy bottlenecks in execution of big-data programs.
Prof. Ronen Shaltiel
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Algorithms.
Prof. Shuly Wintner
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Computational linguistics.
Dr. Rachel Kolodny
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas:Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
Information Systems
Dr. Alan Hartman
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:Design and Engineering of Service Systems, Software and Hardware testing, Project Management, Co-creation processes, Software and Systems Modelling, Software Engineering.
Dr. Einat Minkov
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: natural language processing, text mining.
Prof. Ilan Shimshoni
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:computer vision, 3D data analysis, applications for archaeology & medicine
Dr. Joel Lanir
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: HCI, information visualization.
Dr. Judith Somekh
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:Statistical & comput data analysis and stochastic networks in biomedicine.
Prof. Mor Peleg
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: Medical informatics, data and knowledge integration, knowledge representation and ontologies, decision-support systems, modeling biological and clinical processes.
Prof. Ofer Arazy
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:collaboration patterns in online production com-munities (eg Wikipedia).
Prof. Tsvi Kuflik
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:User modeling, Recommender Systems.
Prof. Pnina Soffer
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:Business process model-ing, analysis, execution.
Dr. Tomer Sagi
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: ML-based dynamic prediction to data-integration tasks, schema matching.
Dr. Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:Network science; Online social networks; Social media text and data mining; Recommender systems; Computational social science; Computer networks.
Statistics
Prof. Alexander Goldenschluger
Department of Statistics
Research Areas: Nonparametric inference, sequential decision making under uncertainty.
Dr. Bella Vakulenko-Lagun
Department of Statistics
Research Areas: methods for causal inference, selection bias, survival analysis and multi-state models.
Dr. Itai Dattner
Department of Statistics
Research Areas:statistical theory, methodology & learning dynamic systems, measurement error models.
Prof. Ori Davidov
Departmant of Statistics
Research Areas:order restricted inference, rating & ranking methods.
Prof. Philip Tzvi Reiss
Department of Statistics
Research Areas:
Functional data analysis, semiparametric regression, neuroimaging data analysis, psychometrics
Dr. Liron Ravner
Department of Statistics
Research Areas:
DS Statistical inference Queuing theory, Applied probability, Operations research.
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Dr. Daniel Sher
Department of Marine Biology
Research Areas:Bioinformatics, marine data, phenotypic analysis.
Prof. Doron Chelouche
Mathematics and Center for TheorPhysics & Astro, Natural Sci.
Research Areas:Time-series analysis, image reduction & com-parison, statistical infer-encing multivariate stat.
Dr. Roee Diamant
Department of Marine Technologies
Research Areas:Signal processing for underwater acoustics, Quality assurance in big marine data, signal/object detection, AI for classification and segmentation of Sonar images.
Dr. Tali Treibitz
Department of Marine Technologies
Research Areas:Underwater Imaging, Ocean Eng, comp. vision, Computat. photography
Dr. Yoav Lehahn
Department of Marine Technologies
Research Areas:oceanography, biophysical interactions, ocean-atmosphere interactions, remote sensing.
Dr. Itzik Klein
Department of Marine Technologies
Research Areas: Data driven based navigation and sensor fusion
Prof. Uri Hershberg
Department of Human Biology
Research Areas:Gene expression & dynamics analysis of digital imaging experim., high throughput sequencing.
Dr. Mickey Kosloff
Department of Human Biology
Research Areas:Bioinformatics, cellular signaling, protein-protein interactions.
Dr. Eyal Privman
Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology
Research Areas:Bioinformatics & comp-utational biology app-roaches to analyze high-throughput genomic data.
Dr. Avi Bar-Massada
Biology and Environment
Research Areas:Ecological informatics, Species distribution modeling, Geospatial analysis, Spatial ecology, Pyrogeography.
Department Of Economics
Dr. Assaf Sarid
Department of Economics
Research Areas: Long Run Growth, Comparative Development, Human Capital Formation, Income Distribution
Prof. Doron Kliger
Department Of Economics
Research Areas: Behavioral Economics and Finance. Collecting and merging financial data, survey data, geographical data
School of business administration, Faculty of Social Sciences
Prof. Daphne Raban
School of Management, Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Areas: topic modeling, agent-based modeling, network analytics.
School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Dr. Roee Admon
School of Psychology
Research Areas:
Stress vulnerability vs. resilience, fMRI, HRV
Prof. Sigal Zilcha-Mano
School of Psychology
sigalzil@psy.haifa.ac.il
Research Areas: precision medicine and psychotherapy; mechanisms of change
Dr. Uri Hertz
Departmant of Cognitive Sciences
Research Areas:Collective decision making, Social influence, online experiments.
Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer
School of Psychology
Research Areas: Machine-learning analysis of psychological data.
Political Science
Dr. Michael Freedman
Political Science
mrfreed@poli.haifa.ac.il
Research Areas: Topic Models, Machine learning, Network Analysis, Computational Text Analysis, Big Data.
Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
Dr. Pavel Goldstein
School of Public Health
Research Areas: Chronic Pain, Social Neuroscience, Biostatistics
Prof. Stephen Levine
Department of Community Mental Health
Research Areas:Psychometrics; Epidemiology.
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Dr. Motti Zohar
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Research Areas: GIScience, geostatistics.
Faculty of Humanities
Dr. Moshe Lavee
Department of Jewish History
Research Areas:Digital humanities. Hand Written Text Recognition, Crowdsourcing.
Research Associates
Post-doc student
Meng Xu
Research Areas:Functional Data Analysis, Semi/Non-parametric Statistics and Financial/Bio-Statistics.
Post-doc student
Aparna Lajmi
Research Areas:
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
Post-doc student
Dr. Gabriel Cotlier
gabiklm01@gmail.com
Research Areas:
Geoinformation and Goespatial Big Data Analysis
Post-doc student
Dr. Carina Fian
carinaf@iac.es
Research Areas:
gravitational lensing, reverberation mapping and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Gravitational microlensing use to reveal the size, geometry and kinematics of AGNs.
Post-doc student
Elad Denenberg
Research Areas:Decision Making , Planning.
Post-doc student
Shlomit Sharoni
shlomit.sharoni@weizmann.ac.il
Research Areas: Remote sensing, Marine biogeochemistry and Ecology.
Post-doc student
Angshuman Roy
angshuman.roy.89@gmail.com
Research Areas: Statistics.
Post-doc student
Liron Rozenkrantz
liron.rozenkrantz@gmail.com
Research Areas: High-dimensional data analysis, dynamic system, combining model-based and model-free approaches.
Research Associate
Israel Rachevski
irrnpv99@gmail.com
Research Areas: Innovation, entrepreneurship.
Research Associate
Alex Abbey
alexzabbey@gmail.com
Research Areas: Complexity and Network Science.
Post-doc student
Chih-Chi Lee
supervolans@gmail.com
Research Areas:
Bioinformatics.
Students
Department of Information Systems
PhD student
Evgenia Wasserman Pritsker
Research Areas:Natural Language Processing, User Modeling, Social Media.
Masters student
Yanir Marmor
Research Areas: Complex networks, Big data and Graph algorithms
Masters student
Keren Segal
Research Areas:Big Data algorithms, sentiment analysis, Twitter.
Masters student
Nir Lotan
Research Areas:Recommender Systems, graph, NLP, Embeddings.
PhD student
Saeed Amal
Research Areas:Natural language processing, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems.
PhD student
Magali Segal Stolarsky
Research Areas: digital archaeology
PhD student
Avital Shulner Tal
Research Areas: Algorithmic Transparency and Fairness.
Ph.D. student
Veronika Bogina
Research Areas: User Modeling and Recommender Systems.
Masters student
Ogen Drukerman
Research Areas: NLP, Deep learning.
