I am an associate professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, and the co-director of the IWiT Lab. I currently serve as the elected head of the Industrial Engineering Department.

Previously I was a visiting associate professor at Cornell Tech, a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. student at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

I was also a public representative at the Privacy Protection Council in Israel’s Ministry of Law (read this letter if you want to know why I resigned), a founding member of Privacy Israel – a non-profit for promoting privacy in Israel, and a public representative at Ideation (Tnufa) Incentive Program at the Israel Innovation Authority.

Research Interests

  • Privacy engineering: Developing and assessing new methods to design and build systems that respect people’s privacy
  • Usable privacy and security: Information privacy, privacy in social networks, privacy in mobile and pervasive computing, privacy in genetic databases
  • Human-AI interaction: Analyzing patterns of interactions between humans and Artificial Intelligence (especially systems that include important Machine Learning components)

Consulting

Eran advises global companies, government agencies, non-profits, and law firms in data protection, privacy, behavior analysis, and cybersecurity.

Publications

Please take a look at the group’s publications.

Selected Grants

  1. Less is More: Addressing Mobile Application Security and Privacy through Debloating, Singapore’s National Cybersecurity R&D and Israel National Cyber Directorate ($235,000). 2022-2024.
  2. Data Science Competitive Grant,  The Council for Higher Education in Israel ($968,000). 2022-2026.
  3. Cyber-Nudging: Incentive Systems and Choice Architectures for Organizational Security,  ICRC – Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center ($74,000). 2021-2023.
  4. Safety and Privacy of Mobile Applications through Model Inference,  ICRC – Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center ($800,000), with Dr. Eran Tromer, Prof. Shahar Maoz, Prof. David Lo, and Prof. Debin Gao. 2017-2020.
  5. Design and operation of a crowd-sourced package delivery system, Israel Ministry of Science infrastructure grant ($290,000), with Prof. Tzur and Prof. Raviv. 2016-2019.
  6. Privacy-Aware Cyber-Security, Israel Ministry of Science-Italy Cooperation ($227,000), with Dr. Shmueli (TAU), Prof. Bettini (Milan) and Prof. Lepri (FBK). 2016-2018.
  7. Reconciling Purpose, Data Privacy, and User Preferences, U.S. DARPA ($1,800,000), with Prof. Agrawal and Prof. Jason Hong (both from Carnegie Mellon University). 2016-2020.
  8. Smart Cities Cyber Security,  ICRC – Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center ($120,000), with Prof. Michael Birenhack, Dr. Tali Hatuka, and Prof. Issi Rosen- Zvi. 2015-2017.
  9. Guiding and Incentivizing Cyber-Security Behavior, ICRC – Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center ($100,00). 2015-2017.
  10. Privacy.US, EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (512,000 Euro), with Prof. Michael Birenhack and Prof. Joachim Meyer. 2015-2019.
  11. User-Oriented Security: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Cyber Security Grant at Israel’s Prime Minister Office ($248,000), with Prof. Irad Ben-Gal, Prof. Joachim Meyer, and Dr. Tal Raviv. 2012-2015.
  12. Privacy by Design – The Human-Machine Interaction and the Legal Interface, Israel Science Foundation – ISF ($185,000), with Prof. Michael Birenhack and Dr. Irit Hadar. 2012-2015.
  13. Learning Mobility Patterns (2011), Israel’s Ministry of Science ($361,000), with Prof. Boaz Lerner and Prof. Irad Ben-Gal. 2012-2015.

 

Teaching

  • Analysis and Management of Digital Products (Tel Aviv University: Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
  • Human-AI Interaction (Tel Aviv University: Spring 2021, Spring 2023)
  • Data Science in the Wild (Cornell Tech: Spring 2019)
  • Data Privacy (Tel Aviv University: Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2023)
  • Big Data Engineering (Tel Aviv University: Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
  • Information Systems Engineering (Tel Aviv University: Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015)
  • Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (Tel Aviv University: Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2020, Fall 2021)
  • Analysis and Specification of Information Systems (Technion: 2004-2008)

Selected Service

  • Subcommittee Co-chair, CHI 2025, Security and Privacy.
  • Program committee member: CHI (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. 2023, 2024), SOUPS (2021), Ubicomp (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), ICIS (2018), WWW (2017) etc etc.
  • Founder and chair of the Israeli ACM SIGCHI local chapter, Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction at the Association for Computing Machinery – ACM (since 2012)
  • Founder and conference chair, the First Israel Conference for Human-Computer Interaction – IsraHCI (2013, 2015, 2018)
  • Associate editor of the ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) (Since 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Associate editor of Frontiers of Human-Computer Interaction (2014-2018)

Public Service

Contact

You can reach me at:

Twitter: @erant and LinkedIn profile.

 

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