About the Lab

IWiT – Interacting with Technology Lab – at The School of Industrial and Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering in Tel Aviv University. We work on usable security and privacy, privacy engineering, and human-AI interaction. To learn more, meet Eran and

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About the Lab

IWiT – Interacting with Technology Lab – at The School of Industrial and Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering in Tel Aviv University. We work on usable security and privacy, privacy engineering, and human-AI interaction. To learn more, meet Eran and

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New published paper about temporal bias in historical newspaper digitization

A new paper,  Temporal bias in historical newspaper digitization: evidence from reconstructing the British mandate trademark registry, was just published by the Journal of Documentation. A camera-ready draft is available to download. The paper by Eran Toch, Bar Ifrah (a graduate student

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New published paper about temporal bias in historical newspaper digitization

A new paper,  Temporal bias in historical newspaper digitization: evidence from reconstructing the British mandate trademark registry, was just published by the Journal of Documentation. A camera-ready draft is available to download. The paper by Eran Toch, Bar Ifrah (a graduate student

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Optimizing roadside shelter placement during the Iran war

Tzally Greenberg from Walla News interviewed Eran Toch about a pressing but largely overlooked safety gap: the lack of roadside shelters for drivers exposed to missile alerts and interception debris. Toch analyzed Home Front Command alert data to identify where

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Optimizing roadside shelter placement during the Iran war

Tzally Greenberg from Walla News interviewed Eran Toch about a pressing but largely overlooked safety gap: the lack of roadside shelters for drivers exposed to missile alerts and interception debris. Toch analyzed Home Front Command alert data to identify where

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Interview on Shadow AI

Eran was interviewed by Zachy Hennessey from CTech by Calcalist in the article “Inside the struggle to control employees’ AI use” on why employees often turn to “Shadow AI”, basically ChatGPT or its rivals, even in tasks that involve private

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Interview on Shadow AI

Eran was interviewed by Zachy Hennessey from CTech by Calcalist in the article “Inside the struggle to control employees’ AI use” on why employees often turn to “Shadow AI”, basically ChatGPT or its rivals, even in tasks that involve private

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Panel at the First Liberal Congress

Eran participated in The Liberal Congress, hosted by The Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG). You can read the talk notes, titled “It’s a good thing that your crazy uncle is all over the networks.”

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Panel at the First Liberal Congress

Eran participated in The Liberal Congress, hosted by The Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG). You can read the talk notes, titled “It’s a good thing that your crazy uncle is all over the networks.”

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Washington Post Article

Eran was interviewed for the Washington Post article, “Israeli military tech start-ups cash in on two years of war,” about the use of AI in Israeli military tech. Full article here.

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Washington Post Article

Eran was interviewed for the Washington Post article, “Israeli military tech start-ups cash in on two years of war,” about the use of AI in Israeli military tech. Full article here.

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New paper accepted to the Journal of Urban Technology

We’re happy to announce that our paper “Place Matters: Neighborhood Effects on Smart City Service Adoption” was just accepted to the Journal of Urban Technology. This paper examines why smart city technologies are adopted unevenly by showing that where people live

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New paper accepted to the Journal of Urban Technology

We’re happy to announce that our paper “Place Matters: Neighborhood Effects on Smart City Service Adoption” was just accepted to the Journal of Urban Technology. This paper examines why smart city technologies are adopted unevenly by showing that where people live

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Michael presenting at the School’s Graduate Research Workshop

Michael had presented his research, “Calibrating Differential Privacy Noise in Federated Learning Based on Explainability and Decision-Boundary Signals” at the School of Industrial & Intelligent Systems Engineering Graduate Research Workshop. The research, a collaboration with researchers from Yonsei University in South

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Michael presenting at the School’s Graduate Research Workshop

Michael had presented his research, “Calibrating Differential Privacy Noise in Federated Learning Based on Explainability and Decision-Boundary Signals” at the School of Industrial & Intelligent Systems Engineering Graduate Research Workshop. The research, a collaboration with researchers from Yonsei University in South

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