Mor Naaman

Mor Naaman is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and the Don and Mibs Follett professor of information science at Cornell Tech, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.

Naaman 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, Naaman 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 he advises startup companies in social computing and related areas.

Naaman is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, multiple best paper awards, and research awards and grants from numerous corporations, including Microsoft, Meta, and Google.