Faculty

Prof. Rann Smorodinsky joined the Faculty in 1997, He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1995. Prior to joining the Faculty Rann was an assistant professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, from 1995–1997.

Prof Erez’s first degree, from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was in Psychology and Sociology (1965). Her M.Sc. (1969) and D.Sc. (1972) from the Technion were in Behavioral Sciences and Management with an emphasis on Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Ido Erev (PhD: University of North Carolina, 1990, Cognitive/Quantitative Psychology). Ido joined the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences  in 1990 as a lecturer. He was promoted to full professor in 2004, and has held the “Women’s Division—ATS Academic Chair” since 2006. He was the head of the Behavioral Science Area, the head of the Technion section of the Max Wertheimer Minerva Center for Cognitive Research, and the head of the Technion group in the ICORE for Empirical Legal Studies of Decision Making, and the president of the European Association for Decision Making.

Professor Eitan Naveh joined the Faculty in 2001. He received his D.Sc. in Quality Assurance and Reliability—all from the Technion in 1995, followed by post-doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

Professor Avraham Shtub holds the Stephen and Sharon Seiden Chair in Project Management. He has a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1974), an MBA from Tel Aviv University (1978) and a Ph.D in Management Science and Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington (1982).

Prof. Kinneret studies search behavior and related aspects of decision making from both psychological and economic point of views. She holds BA in psychology and economics from Tel-Aviv University (2004-2008, magna cum laude) and MSc and PhD in Behavioral Sciences from the Technion (2008-2014, summa cum laude). She spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Indiana University (2014-2016), and came back on March 2016 to start a faculty position at the Technion.

Assistant Professor Atar Herziger joined the faculty in 2021. She received her Ph.D. in Social and Economic Psychology at University of Cologne in Germany in 2018 (Summa Cum Laude). From 2018 to 2021, Atar held a post-doctoral research position at the Sustainability Institute at The Ohio State University.

Assistant Professor Omer Ben Porat joined the faculty in 2022. He has received his Ph.D. in the fields of Machine Learning and Game Theory from the Technion in 2020. Omer has held a Post-Doctoral position at the School of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University during the years 2020-2022, where he was hosted by Prof. Yishay Mansour. Omer is a recipient of the Rothschild post-doctoral fellowship and JP Morgan Ph.D. fellowship award.

Assaf Avrahami holds BSc in mechanical and electrical engineering and an MBA in technology management and marketing. He holds a PhD degree in the area of industrial management and he is a Visiting Professor in the faculty of Data and Decision Sciences. Avrahami is currently the CEO of WIZSOFT-HASHAVSHEVET the leading ERP provider in ISRAEL.

Dr. Yitzhak Kohavi received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the joint program of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Haifa (2005).

associate professor of economics. Expert on behavioral economics and decision making. Member of the Budgeting and Planning Committee. Chairwoman of the Research and Development of International Ties Authority at the Emek Yezreel Academic College.

Visiting Assistant Professor Yifat Aran joined the faculty in 2020. Yifat holds an LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a JSM and JSD from Stanford University, where she was a Fellow in the Olin Program in Law and Economics and the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (SIGF). Yifat is a commercial litigator and a former Israeli Supreme Court law clerk. Yifat also holds a faculty position at the University of Haifa Law School.

Mahmoud Qadan is Assistant Professor of Finance in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Haifa. His research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, the microstructure of capital markets, financial econometrics, and behavioral finance. Dr. Qadan has also won prizes for his teaching and research.

Sara Lev leads the Start-Up MBA program at the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. She received her B.Sc. in Computer Science, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship from the Technion, and held a research fellow position at INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France.

Saul Orbach is a highly accomplished Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Social Impact Investor, C-Suite Officer and Executive, Consultant, Lecturer, Thought Leader, Board Member, and Advisor, with over 34 years of extensive experience building and exiting startup and growth companies, turning around failing companies, as well as training the next generation of entrepreneurs. Saul is the Co-Founder and CEO of his 8th startup, NephFlo, Inc.,

Dr. Ben-Avinoam joined the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences in 2013 as a Lecturer and has been teaching a verity of courses on Entrepreneurship. Dr. Ben-Avinoam is a Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), an early-stage venture capital fund from the Silicon Valley. Prior to BGV Barak was an executive in several investment firms, including two of the leading Israeli incubators in the Incubator Program led by the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist (now The Israel innovation Authority).

Digital marketing expert. Fields of specialty: Psychological Warfare in business, Cyber security and marketing, Digital Marketing and Social Media Marketing. Owner of a Consulting firm, Since 2006 Consulting the leading firms in the Israeli market in the fields on Digital Marketing and Cyber.

Pavel Zaslavsky is the General Manager of Lisuto Israel, a Japanese – Israeli start up, that develops global content AI solutions for ecommerce. In his previous positions Pavel Zaslavsky was the founder and manager of the global catalog operations at eBay and founder and manager of the catalog operations for <a href="http://shopping.com/">Shopping.com</a> in Europe. Pavel held adviser positions in a number of major ecommerce multinationals and teaches ecommerce at the MBA studies at the Israel Institute of Technology.

Dr. Ze’ev Ganor is a serial entrepreneur with 11 start-ups and over 38 years experience in senior management, R&D, international marketing & sales, and business development. In his entrepreneurial endeavors, Ze’ev has held various positions such as Chairman, CEO, Vice President, and a Board member in the fields of video processing & pattern recognition, telecommunication, therapeutics, medical devices, ultrasonic precision motors, semiconductor equipment, automaton, robotics, medical imaging equipment, and computers.