Mor Naaman

Mor Naaman is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech where he holds the Don and Mobs Follett Chair and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University, and currently serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs (ADFA).

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. He is also a former startup co-founder, and advises startup companies in social computing and related areas. He is a recipient of a NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, research awards and grants from numerous corporations including Microsoft, Meta and Google, and multiple best paper awards.