About me
I am a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Associate Research Fellow at the Technion, Israel. Prior to joining Microsoft, I was with Yahoo Research, the Machine Learning group at IBM Research Haifa Lab, and Rafael. I did my M.A. and Ph.D. at the Technion. The focus of my work is on using Internet data to improve health and medicine by applying tools from Machine Learning and Information Retrieval.
Research Topics
My current research projects are:
- Learning health facts from user generated content (side effects of drugs, public health issues, and personal welfare)
- Nudging people to better health
News
- I was named ACM Distinguished Lecturer
- My book was published: Crowdsourced Health: How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine. (Reviews in New Republic and Science). It was also translated to Chinese and Japanese!
- A blog with nuggets we found while working on Crowdsourced Health.
- A fun interview on my favorite books at The Reading List.
- Slides from the WSDM 2015 tutorial on learning about medicine from Inter
- Slides from the TheWebConf 2023 tutorial on internet advertising to improve public health.