Staff

Effi Levi is a PhD candidate in computer science and a consultant in the fields of machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. His main research interests are structured prediction in NLP and Hebrew language processing.

Dror Markus completed his PhD in Political Science at the Hebrew University, and is currently in a post-doc position at the University of Zurich. His doctoral research examined the structures and dynamics of "Media Storms" using computational methods.

Uri Mishmar is a first-year MA Political Science student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is interested in conflicting political narratives and the intersection between politics and literature. 

Guy Mor-Lan is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main research interests include machine learning applications in computational social science and the study of political polarization, as well as natural language processing for Hebrew and spoken Arabic.

Vered Porzycki is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main research interests are gender, political discourse analysis and political representation.

Yael Rivka Kaplan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Haifa. Yael’s research interests include discourse, identities, and values, and her research examines how these influence political behaviors, sense of representation, and public opinion. In her work, Yael utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods, including text and network analysis.

Gal Ron is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is interested in populist rhetoric, the role of sentiments in political discourse, and symbolic representation.

Roni Shapira is a second-year MA Political Science student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is interested in nationalism, political discourse, polarization and conflicts.