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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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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Commenting about AI and Political Persuasion

Eran was interviewed by Maya Roman from Haaretz, commenting on new studies that showed the persuasive sway of AI on voters’ opinions. The article describes new research showing that AI chatbots can meaningfully shift voters’ political attitudes, largely because they

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Commenting about AI and Political Persuasion

Eran was interviewed by Maya Roman from Haaretz, commenting on new studies that showed the persuasive sway of AI on voters’ opinions. The article describes new research showing that AI chatbots can meaningfully shift voters’ political attitudes, largely because they

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Lecture at Haifa Communications Dept: Kosher Phones

Eran gave a talk at the Communication Department seminar at the University of Haifa, presenting the work by Adam Aviv, Oshrat Ayalon on Kosher phone users’ perceptions of safety, privacy, and community. 

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Lecture at Haifa Communications Dept: Kosher Phones

Eran gave a talk at the Communication Department seminar at the University of Haifa, presenting the work by Adam Aviv, Oshrat Ayalon on Kosher phone users’ perceptions of safety, privacy, and community. 

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New NSF-BSF Grant Drives Collaboration to Understand How Religion Impacts Technology Use

We were awarded a very exciting new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) with colleagues Adam Aviv from The George Washington University and Oshrat Ayalon from the University of Haifa. We will explore

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New NSF-BSF Grant Drives Collaboration to Understand How Religion Impacts Technology Use

We were awarded a very exciting new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) with colleagues Adam Aviv from The George Washington University and Oshrat Ayalon from the University of Haifa. We will explore

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