Reseach Students

Zweber Yonat, Ph.D candidate
Strawberries

yonatz@gmail.com

Research interests include: The influences of Word of Mouth Communication, Innovators and Diffusion of Innovations.





Haddad-Leibovich Keren, Ph.D candidate
Strawberries

kerenya@gmail.com

Education: B.sc in Computers Sciences and MBA from The Hebrew University. Research Profile: Diffusion of innovations and all that surrounds it, specifically the diffusion of decliners (those who considered the innovation but declined it), their effects on the diffusion process. Social networks and effects of Social networking behaviour on adoption processes. Online networks. Beyonds marketing I am also intrigued by solving riddles and cognitive processes.

Dover Yaniv, Ph.D candidate
Strawberries

yanivd@phys.huji.ac.il

Yaniv Dover has finished his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Theoretical Solid State Physics and has done Research in Astrophysics and Non-linear Dynamics. During his PhD he was interested in applying the methods and thinking he has aqcuired during his years as a Physicist to Research Problems in the Social Sciences and was totally sucked into the field.

Under the supervision of Prof. Jacob Goldenberg (Business Admin.) and Prof. Sorin Solomon (Theoretical Physics) and collaborating with Dr. Daniel Shapira, Yaniv is now investigating problems of the Diffusion of innovations over networks. Specifically, Yaniv, along with Prof. Goldenberg and Dr. Shapira has developed a method that, assuming a dissemination process has spread over a network, out of a single dissemination pattern (e.g. temporal sales) the degree distribution of the underlying network can be reconstructed along with the parameters of the infection process (internal and external). Also, Yaniv has been working on a project that may enable the uncovering of important surprsing secretive events, before they actually occur, but that is a secret for now...