Short Bio

Tomer Geva – Short Bio

Academic
2019- Senior Lecturer (roughly equivalent to an Associate Professor in US Universities) with tenure, at the Information Systems Department, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University.

2015- Head, Business Data Science Program, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University

2013-2019 Faculty member at the Information Systems Department, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University.

2013 Visiting Scholar at the Information, Operations & Management Sciences Department, Stern School of Business, New York University.

2011-2012 Post Doctoral Research Scientist, Google.

Service
2022 –  Senior editor, Decision Support Systems journal

2020 Track Chair, Social Media and Digital Collaborations track, ICIS 2020

2018-2020 Associate editor, Decision Sciences journal (Business Analytics Department)

2016-2019 Associate editor, Big Data journal

2014-2019, 2022 Associate editor, ICIS.

2015 Founded the Business Data Science Program, School of Management, Tel Aviv University

2015 Co-chair, ILAIS.

2014 Organizing committee member, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR).

Reviewer for: MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Sciences, International Journal of Research in Marketing, ACM Trans. on Management Information Systems, INFORMS Journal on Computing, ICIS, WITS, DESRIST.

Selected Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2014-2019 Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Grant, “Search Trends and Social Media – Predictive Capacity Evaluation”.

2016, 2019 Best Associate Editor award, Data Science and Business Analytics Track, ICIS

2016 Best Reviewer award, WITS 2016

2015 Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center Grant, “Workforce-based Labeling for Cyber Security Applications” (additional PI – Maytal Saar-Tsechansky).

2014 Marketing Science Institute – winner, research competition. “Using Forums and Search for Sales Prediction of High-Involvement Products” (additional PI – Gal Oestreicher-Singer).

2011-2012 Postdoctoral Research Scientist Fellowship – Google

Teaching

Current:

2009 – current: “Advanced Topics in Business Data Science”, Graduate course.

2016 – current: Business Data Science Capstone Project Course, Graduate course

Past:

2015-2019 “Mining Business Data”, Undergraduate course.

2016 “Introduction to Business Analytics”, Undergraduate course.

2013-2016 “Data Science for Business”, Graduate course.

2013-2015 “Introduction to Information Technology”, Undergraduate course.

Higher Education
PhD, Tel-Aviv University.
PhD Advisor: Professor Jacob Zahavi

MBA (Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University.

BSc (Cum Laude), Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Industry Experience
2004-2005, Product Manager. Extricom Ltd. Start-up Company developing innovative Wireless LAN switching and optimization solution.

2003-2004, Product Manager. Schema Ltd. High-tech Company developing advanced cellular network optimization software.

2001-2003, Project Manager. Schema Ltd.