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

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

Privacy & Security Subcommittee at CHI 2026

It will be the second Eran is co-chairing the Privacy and Security subcommittee at #CHI2026, with Florian Schaub and Emilee Rader. Abstract submission is today! 

A letter about the school upgrade

Our department was recently upgraded to a school: The School of Industrial and Intelligent Systems Engineering (IISE). In this letter, I share what this change means and why it matters for our students, our research, and our role in shaping

Noam’s seminar talk

Noam Sheena had given a swift and convincing seminar talk on “Detecting Deceptive Design Patterns in Mobile Apps”.