Mor Naaman

Mor Naaman is the Don and Mibs Follett professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech. He currently serves as Cornell Tech's Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. Mor leads a research group looking at topics at the intersection of technology, media and democracy. The group applies multidisciplinary techniques — from machine learning to qualitative social science — to study our information ecosystem and its challenges, with a special focus on AI-mediated communication and its impact on society. Before Cornell, Mor was on the faculty at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Stanford University InfoLab, and played professional basketball for Hapoel Tel Aviv.