DSRC Faculty Members

Computer Science

Prof. Philip Tzvi Reiss
 
Dr. Adi Akavia
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Security, Cryptography, Safe Calculation, and Big Data algorithms.
Dan Feldman
 
Dr. Dan Feldman
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Data reduction and summarization methods for big, streaming and distributed data.
Prof. Daniel Keren
 
Prof. Daniel Keren
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Probabilistic Pattern Recognition.
Dr. Guy Avni
 
Dr. Guy Avni
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Game Theory
Prof. Hagit Hel-Or
 
Prof. Hagit Hel-Or
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Computational Human Behavior, Computer Vision, Machine learning
Prof. Ilan Newman
 
Prof. Ilan Newman
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Fast big-data algorithms: Property testing, coresets.
Dr. Margarita Osadchy
 
Prof. Margarita Osadchy
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Data Privacy.
Prof. Orr Dunkelman
 
Prof. Orr Dunkelman
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas:Cyber, Privacy.
Prof. Philip Tzvi Reiss
 
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
 
Prof. Ronen Shaltiel
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Algorithms.
Prof. Shuly Wintner
 
Prof. Shuly Wintner
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Computational linguistics.
Dr. Rachel Kolodny
 
Prof. Rachel Kolodny
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas:Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
Prof. Ronen Shaltiel
 
Dr. Dan Rosenbaum
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Structural Biology, Machine Learning, Probabilistic Models, Approximate Inference.
Dr. Roi Poranne
 
Dr. Roi Poranne
Department of Computer Science
Research Areas: Data collection by simulation, deep learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, optimization.

Information Systems

Dr. Alan Hartman
 
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
 
Dr. Einat Minkov
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: Natural language processing, text mining, computational Social Science.
Prof. Ilan Shimshoni
 
Prof. Ilan Shimshoni
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:computer vision, 3D data analysis, applications for archaeology & medicine
Dr. Joel Lanir
 
Dr. Joel Lanir
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: HCI, information visualization.
Dr. Judith Somekh
 
Dr. Judith Somekh
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:Statistical & comput data analysis and stochastic networks in biomedicine.
PROF. MOR PELEG
 
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
 
Prof. Ofer Arazy
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: knowledge management, online collaboration and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW).
Prof. Tsvi Kuflik
 
Prof. Tsvi Kuflik
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas:User modeling, Recommender Systems.
Prof. Pnina Soffer
 
Prof. Pnina Soffer
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: Business process model-ing, analysis, execution, process mining.
DR. OSNAT (OSSI) MOKRYN
 
Prof. Anna Zamansky
Department of Information Systems
Research Areas: AI in veterinary healthcare, AI in animal behavior and emotion analysis.
DR. OSNAT (OSSI) MOKRYN
 
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 Goldenschluger
 
Prof. Alexander Goldenshluger
Department of Statistics
Research Areas: Nonparametric inference, sequential decision making under uncertainty.
Dr. Bella Vakulenko-Lagun
 
Dr. Bella Vakulenko-Lagun
Department of Statistics
Research Areas: methods for causal inference, selection bias, survival analysis and multi-state models.
Dr. Itai Dattner
 
Dr. Itai Dattner
Department of Statistics
Research Areas:statistical theory, methodology & learning dynamic systems, measurement error models.
Prof. Ori Davidov
 
Prof. Ori Davidov
Departmant of Statistics
Research Areas:order restricted inference, rating & ranking methods.
Prof. Philip Tzvi Reiss
 
Prof. Philip Tzvi Reiss
Department of Statistics
Research Areas: 

Functional data analysis, semiparametric regression, neuroimaging data analysis, psychometrics

Dr. Liron Ravner
 
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
 
Dr. Yoav Lehahn
Department of Marine Geosciences
Research Areas:oceanography, biophysical interactions, ocean-atmosphere interactions, remote sensing.
Dr. Itzik Klein
 
Dr. Itzik Klein
Department of Marine Technologies
Research Areas: Data driven based navigation and sensor fusion
Dr. Roee Diamant
 
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.
Dr. Tali Treibitz
 
Prof. Tali Treibitz
Department of Marine Technologies
Research Areas:Underwater Imaging, Ocean Eng, comp. vision, Computat. photography
Dr. Daniel Sher
 
Prof. Daniel Sher
Department of Marine Biology
Research Areas:Bioinformatics, marine data, phenotypic analysis.
 Dr. Igal Berenshtein
 
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
 
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
 
Dr. Eyal Privman
Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology
Research Areas: Bioinformatics & computational biology approaches to analyze high throughput genomic data.
Prof. Uri Hershberg
 
Prof. Uri Hershberg
Department of Human Biology
Research Areas:Gene expression & dynamics analysis of digital imaging experim., high throughput sequencing.
Dr. Mickey Kosloff
 
Dr. Mickey Kosloff
Department of Human Biology
Research Areas:Bioinformatics, cellular signaling, protein-protein interactions.
Dr. Eyal Privman
 
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
 
Dr. Assaf Sarid
Department of Economics
Research Areas: Long Run Growth, Comparative Development, Human Capital Formation, Income Distribution
Prof. Doron Kliger
 
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
 
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
 
Dr. Roee Admon
School of Psychology
Research Areas:

Stress vulnerability vs. resilience, fMRI, HRV

 
Prof. Uri Hershberg
 
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
 
Dr. Uri Hertz
Departmant of Cognitive Sciences
Research Areas:Collective decision making, Social influence, online experiments.
 Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer

Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer

School of Psychology 

Hadasos@psy.haifa.ac.il

Research Areas: Machine-learning analysis of psychological data.

Political Science

Dr. Michael Freedman
 
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
 
Prof. Irit Weissman-Fogel
Physical Therapy
Research Areas: Pain mechanisms; fMRI network analysis; EEG signal processing.
Dr. Pavel Goldstein
 
Dr. Pavel Goldstein
School of Public Health
Research Areas: Chronic Pain, Social Neuroscience, Biostatistics
Prof. Stephen Levine
 
Prof. Stephen Levine
Department of Community Mental Health
Research Areas:Psychometrics; Epidemiology.

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Dr. Motti Zohar
 
Dr. Motti Zohar
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Research Areas: Geoinformation Science & Earth Observation.
Dr. Anna Brook
 
Dr. Anna Brook
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Research Areas: Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing, Deep Learning.

Faculty of Humanities

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

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