Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn is a tenured senior lecturer in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses on cognitive processes in complex sociotechnical systems, with particular emphasis on learning through surprisability and human-AI collaboration. She develops information-theoretic methods for learning and investigates how AI can be designed to empower human decision-making and cognition, aiming to build human-centered AI systems that support autonomous and resilient thinking.
Ossi was the co-chair of IUI’24 and is the chair-elect of the ACM IUI Steering Committee starting 2024. She has received grants from the Israel Science Foundation, the Israel Ministry of Science, and leading high-tech companies.
Dr. Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. During 2022-2024, she was also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Community Service:
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ACM IUI Steering Committee Chair Elect 2024-2026
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Co-Chair of the HAI-GEN Workshop at IUI 2025, 6th Workshop on Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models
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Co-Chair of IUI'24 at South Carolina with Bart Knijnenburg
Recent Invited Talks​
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Cyber Week - AI & Cyber conference, the session on Social Network, Security, and AI, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Clemson University Colloquium, South Carolina, USA
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Northeastern Network Science Institute, Boston, USA
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Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo) seminar series, Binghamton University, USA
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Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, Machester University, UK
Previous/ongoing Community Service:
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IUI'23 Doctoral Consortium
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UMAP'22 Personalized Recommender Systems track chair with Eva Zangerle and Markus Zanker; Doctorate Consortium PC.
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2021 - present: Associate Editor, Complexity Journal
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IUI'21 Tutorial co-chair with Vijay Rajanna
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ESIDA'21 Workshop co-chair with Dorota Glowacka, Evangelos Milios, Axel J. Soto, Fernando V. Paulovich
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2020 - present: Program committee, International School and conference on Network Science (Netsci')
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2019 - present: Program committee, Complex Networks
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2017 - present: Senior Program committee, ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
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UMAP'21 PC, RECSYS'21 PC
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UMAP'19 TRACK co-chair
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NetSciX'17 Program co-chair