Eran Toch

About Eran

I am an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, and the co-director of the IWiT Lab. I recently finished my tenure as the elected head of the School of Industrial and Intelligent Systems Engineering.

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 am a subcommittee co-chair for Security and Privacy at ACM CHI 2025 and 2026. 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) Startup Seed Fund at the Israel Innovation Authority.

Research Interests

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

Consulting

Eran advised global companies, government agencies, non-profits, and law firms on data protection, privacy, behavioral analysis, and cybersecurity.

Publications

Please take a look at the group’s publications.

Teaching

  • Engineering Behavior (Fall 2025)
  • Human-AI Interaction (Spring 2026, Spring 2023, Spring 2021)
  • Analysis and Management of Digital Products (Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023)
  • Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (Fall 2024, Fall 2021,Fall 2021, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011)
  • Data Privacy (Fall 2023, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012)
  • Data Science in the Wild (Cornell Tech: Spring 2019)
  • Big Data Engineering (Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
  • Information Systems Engineering (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015)
  • Analysis and Specification of Information Systems (Technion: 2004-2008)

Selected Academic Service

  • Subcommittee Co-chair for Security and Privacy, ACM CHI (2025 and 2026)
  • 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 (2024, 2020, 2018, 2015, 2011)
  • 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

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