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

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

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

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. 

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

New paper in Information, Communication & Society

We have a new paper just published in Information, Communication & Society. Maayan Cohen and Eran Toch are looking at how the discourse around algorithmic bias was taken up, amplified, and reframed across ideological lines in the launch of ChatGPT

Interview in TheMarker about the Industrial Engineering Job Market

Eran was interviewed in Haaret’z economics paper, TheMarker, about the job market in Industrial Engineering and Management jobs. A PDF version can be found here.