last update: September 2026
Anat Goldstein, PhD
E-Mail: anatgo AT ariel.ac.il
Room: 10.1.19B
Address: Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management
Data Science and AI Research Center
Ariel University
Consumer online behavior - Developing models and methods for:
Analyzing consumers' behavior along the conversion funnel
Measuring product similarity using multimodal representations
Behavior-dependent recommendation systems
Analyzing the differences between mobile vs. desktop users
Human - Machine Learning
Developing an AI-based Assistant for mentoring novice drivers
Learning personality traits from chatbot conversations
Using reciprocal human-machine learning for text classification tasks
Digital medicine - Applying machine learning and data analytics to solve medical problems
Predicting response to treatment in breast cancer patients based on MRI
Prediction of children's visual problems and Amblyopia
Endometriosis prediction
Enteral nutrition failure prediction and mortality prediction in ICU patients
Early prediction of Alzheimer's Disease
Predicting fetal risk during labor from ultrasound examination
Using NLP for analyzing design thinking
How can we model design processes?
Do experienced designers differ from novice designers in their design process?
Additional research areas: Information technology in agriculture, Domain-specific modeling languages, Ontology development
🏆 Our paper, “Framing and Reframing in Design: The Use of an NLP-Based Memory Model,” by Casakin H., Goldstein A., and Gero J., received both the Best Paper Award and the Reviewer’s Favorite Award at the 19th International Design Conference – DESIGN 2026.
🏆 Our paper, “Product Pricing by Multidimensional Similarity: A Multimodal Attention Framework Using Image, Text, and Temporal Representations,” by Yehiel E., Hajaj C., and Goldstein A., received the Best Paper Award – First Runner-Up at ILAIS 2026.
📢 Our paper, “Bridging the Supervision Gap: Technology-Mediated Mentorship to Increase Accompanied Driving and Moderate Novice Driver Stress,” by Goldstein A., Ollech M., and Oren M., has been accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.
📢 The paper "Quality Control for Crowd Workers and for Language Models: A Framework for Free-Text Response Evaluation with No Ground Truth" has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Research (August 2025)
I am an Assistant Professor at Ariel University at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and a member of the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center.
I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Technology and Information Management, at the Coller School of Business at Tel Aviv University, and at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University
I was a guest scientist at the Department of Business Informatics and Business Modeling, at the University of Duisburg Essen (Germany)
I hold a PhD in Information Systems from Tel Aviv University. I also hold an MBA and a BA in Computer Science and Economics from Tel-Aviv University.