New Dataset: A Sample of Israel’s Public Transportation during COVID

As part of the lab’s ongoing project on COVID-19 and its effect on public transportation in Israel. Here, we share data and code to analyze a sample of public transportation schedules and real-time information about bus locations. The data and code

Eran is an Associate Professor Now

I’m very happy to announce that I was promoted to associate professor! This is all due to my former and current students and to my collaborators. Working with you is the most important part of my work and inspires me

Demoing Meerkat at CHI 2022

We were happy to unveil Meerket, our social support system for older adults, at the demo session at CHI2022. With the brass band right beside us, it had a very festive feeling. The demo submission is now available as a

Happy Passover – חג פסח שמח

The lab wishes everyone a happy Passover and a great spring holiday!

New accepted publication at the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

We are happy that Maya Benarous’ paper, “Synthesis of Longitudinal Human Location Sequences: Balancing Utility and Privacy“, was recently accepted to the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). The paper, written with Maya’s two co-advisors, Eran Toch and Irad Ben

Interviewed on the Israeli public radio

Eran was interviewed on the Israeli Public Radion show “Three who know” about the new system suggested by the municipality of Natanya for using image recognition for recognizing dogs (!) that were not cleaned after (and lots of other things).

Tamir Mendel winning the  2022 ILAIS Ein-Dor Student Prize for Information Systems Research

We are very proud to announce that Tamir Mendel had received the ILAIS Ein-Dor Student Prize for Information Systems Research. The prize, established in 2022, is given to two Ph.D. students in Israel every year. Prof. Philip Ein-Dor is a driving