Active Projects

  • Privacy Engineering in Social Organizations. Funding agency: Israel Ministry of Law Class Action Fund. Co-PI: Michael Birnhack. 2025-2027.
  • Less is More: Addressing Mobile Application Security and Privacy through Debloating. Funding agency: Singapore National Cyber-security R&D and
    Israel National Cyber Directorate. 2022-2025.
  • DAPSA – Data Access with Privacy, Security, and Accountability. Funding agency: Israel Research Council Data Science Directive. Co-PIs: Ran Gilad-Bachrach’s, Mahmood Sharif, Michal Feldman, and Analia Schlosser’s (TAU). 2022-2026.

 

Past Projects

  1. Mass surveillance and COVID-19 contact tracing. Funding agency: The Center for combating pandemics, 2021-2022.
  2. Safety and Privacy of Mobile Applications through Model Inference. Funding agency: Cyber fund – Prime Minister’s Office. 2017-2019. Co-PI: Shahar Maoz, David Lo (SMU), Debin Gao (SMU). Read more about: Meerkat – social app for mobile safety support for older adults.
  3. Design and operation of a crowd-sourced package delivery system. Funding agency: Israel Ministry of Science infrastructure grant. Co-PIs: Prof. Tzur and Dr. Raviv (TAU).2016-2019.
  4. Privacy-Aware Cyber-Security. Funding agency: Israel Ministry of Science-Italy Cooperation. Co-PIs: Erez Shmueli, Bettini (Milan) and Prof. Lepri (FBK). 2016-2018.
  5. Reconciling Purpose, Data Privacy, and User Preferences, U.S. DARPA, with Prof. Agrawal and Prof. Jason Hong (Carnegie Mellon University). 2016-2020.
  6. Smart Cities Cyber Security,  ICRC – Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, with Prof. Michael Birenhack, Dr. Tali Hatuka, and Prof. Issi Rosen- Zvi (TAU). 2015-2017.
  7. Guiding and Incentivizing Cyber-Security Behavior, ICRC – Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center. 2015-2017.
  8. Privacy.US. Funding Agency: EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network. Co-PIs: Michael Birenhack and Prof. Joachim Meyer (TAU). 2015-2019.
  9. Genomic Privacy. Funding Agency: The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and The Check Point Institute for Information Security. Co-PI: Noam Shomron (TAU).
  10. Smartphone’s Influence on Cognitive Perceptions of the Public Space. Funding Agency: Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Fund by  the Vice President for Research. Co-PI: Tali Hatuka (TAU).
  11. User-Oriented Security: A multidisciplinary approach. Funding agency: Israel Ministry of Science and Israel National Cyber Bureau ‏(INCB‏) at Israel’s Prime Minister Office. Co-PIs: Irad Ben-Gal, Joachim Meyer and Tal Raviv (TAU).
  12. Privacy by Design – Identifying Gaps and Overcoming Barriers in the Intersection of Law and Engineering. Funding agency: Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Co-PI: Michael Birnhack (TAU) and Irit Hadar (Haifa U).
  13. Learning Mobility Patterns. Funding agency: the Israel Ministry of Science. Co-PI: Boaz Lerner (BGU) and Irad Ben-Gal (TAU).