Elad Yom-Tov

I am a Professor of Computer Science at Bar Ilan University. Prior to joining Bar Ilan University I was a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Associate Research Fellow at the Technion, Israel.
Before then I was with Yahoo Research, the Machine Learning group at IBM Research Haifa Lab, and Rafael. I did my M.A. and Ph.D. at the Technion. The focus of my work is on using Internet data to improve health and medicine by applying tools from Machine Learning and Information Retrieval.

Crowdsourced health

Learning health facts from user generated content (side effects of drugs, public health issues, and personal welfare).

Nudging people to better health

Using Reinforcement Learning and through advertising.

ACM Distinguished Lecturer

I was named ACM Distinguished Lecturer.

Crowdsourced Health

My book was published: Crowdsourced Health: How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine. (Reviews in New Republic and Science). It was also translated to Chinese and Japanese!

My blog

A blog with nuggets we found while working on Crowdsourced Health.

Tutorial

Slides from the TheWebConf 2023 tutorial on internet advertising to improve public health.

Email: elad@ieee.org