Dr. Avshalom Elmalech

2016 – 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow:

Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard.

2012 – 2016 Ph.D:

Computer science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Dissertation title – Overcoming People’s Irrationality Using Agents.

Doctoral Supervisor- Prof. David Sarne.

https://is.biu.ac.il/en/Avshalome

ABOUT MY WORK

My research interests include: Crowdsourcing, Recommendation Systems, Human-Agent Interaction, Digital Humanities, Machine Learning and Human Factors.

I teach introduction to Machine Learning, Introduction to programming, and Advanced Programming in Python.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Text Analysis Using Deep Neural Networks in Digital Humanities and Information Science. The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2021
2. Toward the optimized crowdsourcing strategy for OCR post-correction. Aslib J. Inf. Manag. 72(2): 179-197, 2020
3. “But You Promised”: Methods to Improve Crowd Engagement In Non-Ground Truth Tasks. HCOMP 2017: 21-30
4. Problem restructuring for better decision making in recurring decision situations. Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst. 29(1): 1-39 (2015)
5. When Suboptimal Rules. AAAI 2015: 1313-1319

RESEARCH PROJECTS