About Me
I am a PhD Computer-Science student (since 2010/05) in the Technion, graduate of the Technion Excellence program. My advisor is Prof. Shaul Markovitch. I started my studies in the Technion at the age of 15 (in the especially gifted student program)- and since then I am here. Actually, not all the time I was in the Technion - I was a programmer in the Israeli Defense Force for ~3 years, and was also an active developer for Firefox. I co-founded Promisite CMS services, worked in developing recommendation systems in Webshakes, and later spent 3 years as a researcher at Microsoft Research Israel. Today, I am the co-founder of a new startup SalesPredict.
About My Research
My primary research focus is on how Web Dynamics and the Knowledge on the Web can help us predict future events in our world. I investigate the changes the Web undergoes with time, from such salient changes as the addition and evolution of content, to more subtle temporal dynamics of user behavior, and how those can be used to predict future population behavior. I combine this dynamics along with other World Knowledge available on the Web to build a system that feeds on numerous heterogeneous resources, such as Web activity, Real-Time media and Social media, to alert about upcoming future events.
Email kirar at cs.technion.ac.il.
Office Taub Computer Science Building 712.