September 28, 2013
Feldman Ronen - Curriculum Vitae, 2013
1. Personal
Born: 05.06.62 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
ID: 057696114.
Citizenship: Israel.
Marital Status: Married + 4.
Military Service: 1981-1989.
Address: Shedrovisky 4, Petach Tikva Phone: H: +972-3-9326702 W: 972-2-5883084
e-mail: ronen.feldman@huji.ac.il
Fax: +972-2-5881341
2. Higher Education
1981 - 1984
Institution
Hebrew University
Area
Math, Physics, Computer
Science
1984 - 1988
Bar-Ilan University
Computer Science
1989 - 1993
Cornell University
Computer Science
(Machine Learning)
Degree / Advisor
B.Sc. (Cum Laude)
– Talpiot Project
M.Sc. (Summa
Cum Laude)
Ph.D. with Prof.
Alebrto Segre
3. Appointments at the Hebrew University
Date
July 2007
Rank
Associate
Professor
Area
Business Administration (Internet
Studies)
4. Additional Functions at the Hebrew University
Dates
Appointment
2007-2013
Member in school committees: Research Students committee,
Admittance Committee, Teaching Committee, Development Committee,
Reccanati Center, Asper Center.
Coordinator – AACSB Accreditation Process
2007-2013
Head of the Internet Studies Department
5. Service at Other Academic Institutions
Dates
Institution
Rank
1995-2007
Bar-Ilan University (Computer Science
Department)
Senior Lecturer
2000-2002
New York University (Stern Business School)
Visiting Professor
6. Awards, Fellowships and other Academic Activity
A. Academic Awards and Fellowships

The Levi Eshkol Fellowship (1993-1995)

1992-1993 Soref Post Doctoral Fellowship, Bar-Ilan University.
B. Teaching Awards

1985-1986 Outstanding teaching elected by the students in 1985 (Bar-Ilan
University)

1995-1996 Best Lecturer Award, Michlelet Yosh, Ariel.
C. Scientific Reviews

Editorial board:
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Journal of Intelligent
Information Systems (JIIS), Intelligent Data Analysis Journal (IDA)
 Reviewer in the following Journals:
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Journal, JIIS, IEEE TKDE,
Computational Linguistics

Scientific Review at research proposals in:
ISF (Academia), GIF (Germany Israel science Foundation), BSF

Membership in International Conferences Program Committees:
ACM-SIGKDD, ACM-SIGIR, ACM-WWW, PKDD, IJCAI, ACM-CIKM,
IEEE-ICDM, ACL, VLDB, SDM, ECIR
D. Organization of Conferences/ Colloquiums/Sessions
1. Organizing Chair, BISFAI-1993
2. Organizing Chair, IJCAI-1999 Workshop on TEXT MINING:
FOUNDATIONS, TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS, Stockholm,
Sweden.
3. Organizing Committee, Workshop on Operational Text Classification
Systems, SIGIR’2001
7. Research Grants
1993-1994
France-Israel BI-national Research Grant on “Incremental
Revision of Relational Models in Robotics and Vision,” 16,000$
Associated papers: # 13
1995-1996
Israeli Ministry of Sciences and Arts, “Taming the Information
Highway,” 100,000$
Associated papers: # 17
1996-1997
TELRAD “Switch Analyst - An Expert System for Analyzing
Telephony Switches,” 44,500$
Associated papers: # 17
1996-1999
MAGNET “An Environment for Data Mining in the Information
Highway,” Principal Investigator, 135,000$.
Associated papers: # 16, 16, 20, 21.
1996-1999
Israeli Ministry of Sciences and Arts, “Knowledge Discovery in
Medical and Hospital Databases: A Generic Environment, High Level
Language and Algorithmic Platform, ” Project Coordinator and
Principal Investigator, 400,000$
Associated papers: working papers # 5 and 6.
1997-1999
GIF (German-Israel Foundation), “Generic Environment and High
Level Language for Knowledge Discovery in Texts, ” Principal
Investigator, 75,000$.
1998-1999
France-Israel Bi-national Research Grant on “Term Level Mining,”
Principle Investigator, 45,000$.
1997-1998
TELRAD “Switch Miner - A Data Mining System for Telephony
Switches,” Principal Investigator, 52,000$.
Associated papers: working papers # 5 and 6.
1998-2000
BSF (Bi-national Science Foundation) "Web Analysis Tools for Text
Mining and Knowledge Discovery," Principal Investigator, 34,500$.
1999-2002
Israeli Ministry of Sciences and Arts, “Knowledge Discovery in Texts
and Images ,” Principal Investigator, 400,000$
2004-2005
Biogen-IDEC, “Mining the BioMedical Literature”, Principal
Investigator, 70,000$
2005-2010
MAFAAT, “An Infrastructure for Text Mining and Link Analysis”,
Principal Investigator, 200,000$.
2006-2008
MOST, “Privacy Preserving Data Mining”, Principal Investigator,
150,000$.
Associated papers: working papers # 5 and 6.
2007-2009
EPFL, “Internet Patrol”, 60,000 SWF
2009-2011
GIF (German-Israel Foundation), “Opinion Mining from Religious
Texts”, 180,000 Euro, Principal Investigator (with Emmanuel Sivan)
2010-2013
MAFAAT, “A Generic Sentiment Analysis Platform”, Principal
Investigator, 160,000$.
2012-2013
MOS, "Mining Financial Microblogs", Principal Investigator, 30,000$
2013-2016
ISF, "Which News Moves Stock Prices? A Texual Analysis", 105,000$
8. Teaching at the Hebrew University
A. Supervision of Master’s Degree Students
2011-2013
(expected)
Ofir Farchy
2011-2013
(expected)
Oren Pereg
2012-2014
(expected)
Reuven Simantov
B. Supervision of Ph.D. Degree Students
Zvi Ben Ami
2010-2014
(expected)
C. Courses Taught Since Appointment
Year
Course
#
Title
1 or 2
terms
Hours Course
/wk
type
Elective/
required
BA/
MA
07/08
55703
Text Mining and Business
Applications
1
3
Lecture
Elective
MBA
07/08
55711
Data Mining
1
3
Lecture
Elective
BA
08/09
55717
Internet Technologies
1
3
Lecture
Required
BA
08/09
55890
IS Seminar
1+2
2
Seminar
Required
MBA
08/09
55703
Text Mining and Business
Applications
1
3
Lecture
Elective
MBA
08/09
55711
Data Mining
1
3
Lecture
Elective
MBA
09/10
55703
Text Mining and Business
Applications
1
3
Lecture
Elective
MBA
09/10
55312
Internet Technologies
1
2
Lecture
Required
BA
09/10
55889
Internet Technologies
1
3
Lecture
Required
MBA
09/10
55890
IS Seminar
1+2
2
Seminar
Required
MBA
10/11
55703
Text Mining and Business
Applications
1
3
Lecture
Elective
MBA
10/11
55312
Internet Technologies
1
2
Lecture
Elective
BA
10/11
55889
Internet Technologies
1
3
Lecture
Required
MBA
10/11
55890
IS Seminar
1+2
2
Seminar
Required
MBA
11/12
55703
Text Mining and Business
Applications
1
3
Lecture
Elective
MBA
11/12
55312
Internet Technologies
1
2
Lecture
Elective
BA
11/12
55889
Internet Technologies
1
3
Lecture
Required
MBA
11/12
55890
IS Seminar
1+2
2
Seminar
Required
MBA
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