Presenters
Department of Information Systems Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev​
Prof. Bracha Shapira is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Software Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the chair of the department. Dr Shapira's ,main interests are in the field of recommender systems, personalization, and information retrieval and utilizing crowd wisdom from social media to enhance these services. She has led many research projects in these fields and has published nearly 100 reviewed papers in journals and conferences and has become a known expert in these areas.
Prof. Bracha Shapira
Victor Makarenkov
Nir Ofek
Department of Information Systems Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev​
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Nir Ofek is currently in the last year of his PhD studies at the department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His research interest lies in the intersection of text mining and machine learning, and aims to develop general and effective techniques in understanding latent opinions in human language.
Department of Information Systems Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev​
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Victor Makarenkov is an experienced practitioner and product manager, having a nearly 10 years experience in designing, implementing and deploying large-scale information retrieval systems. Currently he is pursuing his PhD degree at the department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.