20-Minute talks

Rachel Wities

It’s Not Just the Doctor’s Handwriting: Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare NLP

Reut Yaniv

Ad Serving in the Online Geo Space Along Routes

Merav Mofaz

Merav Mofaz

Every Breath You Take, and Every Move You Make… I’ll Be Watching You:  The Sensitive Side of Smartwatches

Lightning talks

Shvat Messica

Shvat Messica

Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke Risk Estimation Using a Deep Learning-based Retinal Image Analysis

Ilana Klovatch

Times of Change: Overcome Regime Changes in Time-Series Forecasting

Shir Lissak

Bottom-up Computational Topic Modeling of Facebook Language and Top-down Hypothesis Testing Uncover Boredom Experiences as a Risk Factor for Suicide

Morit Zwang

The Network of Love

Myriam Hansel-Lesmy & Maya Cohen

A Journey Toward Creating One Holistic Model to Replace an Entire Ecosystem

Tom Hirshberg

When AI Meets Fashion

Irma Hadar

Maximizing Model Performance and Efficiency Through Intelligent Feature Selection

Planned Agenda

8:45 Reception
9:30 Opening words by WiDS TLV ambassador Nitzan Gado and by Lily Ben Ami, CEO of the Michal Sela Forum
9:50 Prof. Bracha Shapira – Data Challenges in Recommender Systems Research: Insights from Bundle Recommendation
10:20 Juan Liu – Accounting Automation: Making Accounting Easier So That People Can Forget About It
10:50 Break
11:00 Lightning talks
12:20 Lunch & poster session
13:20 Roundtable session & poster session
14:05 Roundtable closure
14:20 Break
14:30 Merav Mofaz – “Every Breath You Take and Every Move You Make…I'll Be Watching You:” The Sensitive Side of Smartwatches
14:50 Reut Yaniv – Ad Serving in the Online Geo Space Along Routes
15:10 Rachel Wities - It’s Not Just the Doctor’s Handwriting: Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare NLP
15:30 Closing remarks
15:40 End
12:30 Lunch & Poster session
Adi Watzman - Nobody is Perfect – How Do We Debug ML Models?
14:30 Roundtable closure
14:45 Gal Yona - How Fair Can We Be
15:15 Daphna Weissglas - Turning Data Science Into Precision Medicine Empowering Millions
15:45 Closing remarks