Academic Service

Workshop (Co)Organizer:

• RecSys'2016 Workshop on Deep Learning for Recommender Systems (DLRS)

• KDD'2014 2nd Int. workshop on Multimodal Crowd Sensing (CrowdSens'2014)

• CIKM'2012 1st Int. workshop on Multimodal Crowd Sensing (CrowdSens'2012)

• SIGIR'2012 joint international workshop on Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES'2012)

• CIKM'2011 workshop on Search & Mining Entity-Relationship Data (SMER'11)

Tutorial (Co)Organizer:

• ICTIR'2020 - Modern Query Performance Prediction - Theory and Practice

• WWW'2018 - Complex Recommendations 

Conference Track (Co)Chair:

• WWW'2025 -  Social Networks and Social Media

Session chair:

• SIGIR'2022 - Search & Recommendation

• KDD'2021 - E-commerce, social-commerce

• SIGIR'2021 - Applications

• WWW'2021 - Personalization

• WWW'2018 - Web Search and Mining

• ICTIR'2017- Interactive and session search

Senior Conference PC member:

• SIGIR: 2022

• WWW: 2021-23

Conference PC member:

• KDD: 2021-22

• SIGIR: 2010-2021, 2023-25

• CIKM: 2012-13,2015,2017-18, 2024-5

• WWW: 2016, 2018-20

• WSDM: 2018-24

• ICTIR: 2019-22

• ECIR: 2023

• RecSys: 2012-13,2017-24

• SDM: 2023

• IJCAI: 2016,2019-20

• Hypertext: 2013,2017-18

• AIRS: 2019

• ESWC: 2015-2016

Workshop PC member:

ComplexRec'2018 (@RecSys) SAPS'2018 (@ECIR), SoMePeAS 2017, MSM/MUSE'2013-15,2019, SocialObjects'2011

Invited Journal reviewer:

SNAM, Distributed and Parallel DBs Jr., ACM TIST, IEEE TKDE, Journal of Web Semantics, ACM TIIS, ACM TMIS, IR Journal, ACM TOIS

External reviewer:

AAMAS 2004, ICWS 2004, SIGMOD 2004, ODBASE2004, CIKM 2006,2008-10, CoopIS 2006, SIGIR 2007-09, ICDE 2007-08, JCDL 2008, VLDB 2008, ACM TWEB 2008, WWW2009, ACM TIST 2010

Teaching:

• (University of Haifa) 2014 - 2020: Adjunct Lecturer, The Department of Computer Science. Courses taught: Web programming, Seminar on Advanced Internet Technologies, Seminar on Cognitive Computing Technologies, Databases, Information Retrieval

• (Technion) 2007-2010: Adjunct Lecturer, faculty of industrial and management engineering. Courses taught: Database management systems.

• (Technion) 2003-2006: Teaching Assistant (in charge), faculty of industrial and management engineering. Courses: Database managementsystems, Distributed Databases, Advanced Topics in Information Systems.

• (Haifa University) 2007: Teaching Assistant (in charge), departmentof computer science. Course: Information Retrieval.