Team
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.
Lab Team
Hagit Ben Shoshan
PhD thesis, Visualizing the Unexpected
Roi Alfassi
Research Assistant, Human-AI decision making under stress
Lanna Labai
Master thesis, Human-AI decision making under stress
Mohammed Kashkoush
Master thesis, Emotions in Human-AI decision making
Eran Fainman
PhD thesis, AI agency in human-AI decision making process
Michal Shaharabani
Master thesis, Perceptions of trust in crowd voting systems
Alumni
Roi Alfassi
Master thesis, Fanfics in the age of AI
Hagit Ben Shoshan
Master thesis, Latent Personal Analysis (LPA) and its uses for authorship attribution; Visual analytics of user-generated content
Miki Cohen-Kalaf
Master thesis, MovieMap: exploration in an emotional space
Lior Lansman
Master thesis, The effect of emotions on recommendations diversifications
Yossi Solomon
Master Thesis, SDNSandbox: Enabling Innovation in Provider Networks
Alex Abbey
Research assistant, Temporal networks dynamics
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Temporal Latent
Personal Analysis
Uri Alon
Research Assistant, Latent Personal Analysis (LPA) applications
Yanir Marmor
Research assistant, Temporal networks dynamics
Hadar Miller
Master thesis, Change point detection in networks