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.

Prof. 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.

Prof. Rachel Kolodny
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas:Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Dr. Dan Rosenbaum
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Structural Biology, Machine Learning, Probabilistic Models, Approximate Inference.

Dr. Roi Poranne
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Data collection by simulation, deep learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, optimization.
Information Systems

Prof. 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, computational Social Science.

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: knowledge management, online collaboration and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW).

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, process mining.

Prof. Anna Zamansky
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: AI in veterinary healthcare, AI in animal behavior and emotion analysis.

Dr. Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: Network science and temporal networks, Computational social science, Recommender systems.
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Statistics

Prof. Alexander Goldenshluger
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.
Charney School of Marine Sciences

Dr. Yoav Lehahn
Department of Marine Geosciences
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. 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.

Prof. Tali Treibitz
Department of Marine Technologies
Research Areas:Underwater Imaging, Ocean Eng, comp. vision, Computat. photography

Prof. Daniel Sher
Department of Marine Biology
Research Areas:Bioinformatics, marine data, phenotypic analysis.

Dr. Igal Berenshtein
Department of Marine Biology
Research Areas: Computational biology, signal and time series analyses, animal orientation, Lagrangian Stochastic models, larval dispersal and connectivity, marine pollution, marine ecosystem science.
Faculty of Natural Sciences

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. Eyal Privman
Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology
Research Areas: Bioinformatics & computational biology approaches to analyze high throughput genomic data.

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. 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; individual-specific mental health interventions; psychotherapy; mechanisms of therapeutic 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

Prof. Irit Weissman-Fogel
Physical Therapy
Research Areas: Pain mechanisms; fMRI network analysis; EEG signal processing.

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: Geoinformation Science & Earth Observation.

Dr. Anna Brook
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Research Areas: Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing, Deep Learning.
Faculty of Humanities

Dr. Moshe Lavee
Department of Jewish History
Research Areas:Digital humanities. Hand Written Text Recognition, Crowdsourcing.