Abraham (Avrahami) Israeli

Office 3336

North Quad, UMSI

Ann Arbor, MI

My name is Abraham Israeli, some call me Avrahami as a nick name. I am a data scientist with research and industry experience of 10+ years. My professional focus lies in the field of machine learning research, particularly within the realm of computational social science.

Currently, I am a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan. I am hosted by Prof. Daniel Romero and Prof. David Jurgens at the School of Information (UMSI). I obtained my Ph.D. from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, where I was advised by Dr. Oren Tsur and was part of the Natural Language Processing and Social Dynamics lab (NASLB).

Before starting my current post-doctoral program, I was a Research Fellow at the Data Science Institute (DSI), Reichman University. I led research projects associated with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Social Analytics. I managed teams of 6-10 researchers, most of whom are undergraduate and master’s students. These projects are strongly related to my Ph.D. research field.

Before embarking on my academic path, I gained 8+ years of professional experience at IBM Research and Intel. At Intel, I led a team of 6-8 engineers in the field of data science, overseeing multiple projects and engaging in research activities.

Although I am researching social media platforms, I am not too active on those 😊. However, you can find me on LinkeIn.

Keywords

General

Data Science, machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence.

Keywords

Data Science

Natural language processing, computational linguistics, sentiment analysis, social network analysis, information retrieval.

Keywords

Computational Data Science

Collective actions, online communities, information diffusion, social influence, hate speech analysis.

news

Jul 15, 2024	I am currently in the great city of Philadelphia! I’m presenting my work at the IC2S2 Conference running this week at the city.
Jun 6, 2024	Just ended a great week at Buffalo, as part of the ICWSM conference. It was great meeting many other scholars and present my last dissertation paper there.
Mar 25, 2024	Dissertation approved! After 5+ intense years I’m so happy to announce that I am about to receive the final approval of my Ph.D. work!
Feb 19, 2024	Happy to share that our paper, titled as “DiaSet: An Annotated Dataset of Arabic Conversations” has been accepted to LREC-COLING 2024 and will be presented in May at Turin, Italy.
Jan 15, 2024	The next stop is University of Michigan! I am about to start my position as a postdoc fellow at the School of Information (UMSI) on February.