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 am currently the elected head of the Department.

I have previously been a visiting associate professor at Cornell Tech, a postdoctoral 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 to learn why I resigned), a founding member of Privacy Israel, a non-profit organization that promotes privacy in Israel, and a public representative at the 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.

Teaching

  • Analysis and Management of Digital Products (Tel Aviv University: Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
  • Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (Tel Aviv University: Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 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)
  • Analysis and Specification of Information Systems (Technion: 2004-2008)

Selected Academic 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, IsraHCI — the First Israel Conference for Human-Computer Interaction (2013, 2015, 2018)
  • Associate editor of IMWUT — ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (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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