Dr. Barak Sober

is a Senior Lecturer of Statistics and Data Science and Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Before that he was an Assistant Research Professor at the department of Mathematics, Duke University. He received his PhD in from the School of Mathematical Science at Tel-Aviv University in 2018. His research ranges from analysis of high dimensional data from a geometrical perspective to the application of mathematical modeling and statistical methods in the arts and humanities with the aim of performing empirical based scientific investigations in these fields.