Academic Staff

Renana Keydar - Center Director

Dr. Renana Keydar - Center Director

Renana Keydar has served as assistant professor of law and digital humanities at the Hebrew University since July 2020. She heads the Alfred Landecker Digital Humanities Lab and is the founder and director of the teaching program in digital humanities at the Hebrew University.

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 Keydar is the recipient of the prestigious Alon Fellowship for outstanding young researchers. She earned an LLB in law and a BA in political science from Tel Aviv University (magna cum laude) and served as a legal advocate in the Israeli State Attorney’s Office, High Court of Justice Department. Upon receiving her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, Keydar was selected as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights and then as a research fellow in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University. Today, Keydar is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research and at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center, and is a visiting researcher at the Poetic Media Lab at Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.

 

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Yael  Netzer - Lead Scientist

Dr. Yael Netzer - Lead Scientist

Yael Netzer is the lead scientist of the DH@Huji lab. She has a PhD in Computer Science and MA studies in Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University.  Her dissertation combined computational linguistics, natural language generation and augmentative and alternative communication.

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In recent years she teaches  Digital Humanities in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Universities and in Digital Humanities related institutions such as the European Summer University of Leipzig, and the winter school in HUJI, for students and scholars from the Humanities, Computer Science, and Archiving studies.

She works at Dicta, the Israeli Center for Text Analysis and is also a partner in the Digital Humanities lab in Haifa University. In recent years, Netzer develops and implements methods for digital personal archives, and is most interested in knowledge representation for archives, libraries and for the humanities.

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Barak Sober

Dr. Barak Sober

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

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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. 

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