Congratulating Luiza for winning the President’s Scholarship

So proud! Luiza Jarovsky received the most prestigious Ph.D. award in Israel – The President’s Scholarship, from President Ruvi Rivlin, for her PhD research on fairness in data protection law. Supervised by Eran Toch and Michael Birnhack. Congrats, Luiza!

TheMarker article about our work on Nudging Users towards Online Safety using Gamified Environments

The economic section of Haaretz, TheMarker, had published a piece on our upcoming paper in Computers and Security. I was interviewed about why human errors are increasingly exploited by hackers and how gamification techniques can help organizations mitigate some of

Congratulations to Dr. Oshrat Ayalon!

So proud of Oshrat Ayalon for zooming through her doctoral defense with flying colors. Oshrat is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, Germany, working at the Safety & Society group. Oshrat’s Ph.D.

Media appearance: Eran is speaking with DemocratTV about the Meron Mt. Disaster

Eran was interviewed by Hani Zubeida from DemocratTV about the science behind the Meron Mt. human crush disaster.

Student presentations at the 8th Privacy, Cyber and Technology Workshop

Two lab members are presenting their work in the 8th Privacy, Cyber and Technology Workshop at Tel Aviv University.

An op-ed

Eran had written an op-ed piece for Bahazit Media, an ultra-orthodox news website about the recent Meron Mountain human crush disaster. The op-ed talks about how human crush disasters are formed and how this knowledge can help us to assign

New workshop paper — Aging Safely Online: Cultural Aspects of Social Support Technologies

We are happy to announce that a new workshop paper will be presented by our Ph.D. candidate, Tamir Mendel, at the CHI 2021 workshop “Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations – Addressing Global Challenges“. The paper will be presented via