Erez Shmueli

Biography

I am a senior lecturer (assistant professor) and the head of the Big Data Lab at the department of Industrial Engineering at Tel-Aviv University and a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab. I received my BA degree (with honors) in Computer Science from the Open University of Israel, and MSc and PhD degrees in Information Systems Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Yuval Elovici. After completing my PhD, I spent two years as a post-doctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab, at the Human Dynamics group headed by Prof. Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland. My research interests include Big Data, Complex Networks, Computational Social Science, Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Database Systems, Information Security and Privacy. My professional experience includes being a programmer and a team leader in the Israeli Air-Force and a project manager in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Research Interest

Big Data, Complex Networks, Computational Social Science, Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Database Systems, Information Security and Privacy.