Yiftach Nagar

Dr. Yiftach Nagar’s experience with information systems spans more than 20 years in industry and academia. He is an information technology expert who specializes in collective intelligence, open innovation and the study and design of sociotechnical systems in organizations. His main research interest is in developing and understanding new ways of organizing the work of experts, crowds, and algorithms for solving complex problems.

Prior to joining MTA, Dr. Nagar has been a researcher at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, involved among other projects with the Climate CoLab. He has also been teaching courses on topics related to technology, innovation, and digital transformation, in leading international management programs at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, IDC Herzliya, and MIT.

Yiftach’s industry experience includes R&D and product management roles in startup companies and in one NASDAQ-traded company. He has led the development of projects and products that were deployed by dozens of companies, including some of the world's leading telecom service providers. He's also served as a consultant to a number of companies and entrepreneurs.

Yiftach holds a PhD and an M.Sc. from MIT, and a B.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University.

Fields of Research

• Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
• Social Computing
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Collective Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence
• Information Technology
• Open Innovation
• Citizen Science
• Crowdsourcing
• Crowd Computing
• Human Computation
• Organizational Design
• Digital Transformation

Education

• PhD Mit 2016 Management (Information Technology & Org. Studies) Thesis: Essays On Collective Intelligence Committee: Tom Malone, Jeff Nickerson, Iyad Rahwan
• M.Sc.
  MIT 2013 Management Research
  Thesis: Combining Human And Machine Intelligence For Making Predictions
  MIT 2013 Graduate Teaching Certificate
  Tel Aviv University 2003-2005 Graduate Studies In Decisions & Operations Research
• B.Sc. Tel Aviv University 1997 Industrial Engineering (Information Systems)

Academic Work Experience

Lecturer (Asst. Professor, tenure track)

• The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo 2022-

Lecturer (Adjunct Asst. Professor)

• Reichman University (The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) 2019-
• Tel Aviv University 2020-2022
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2019-2021

Research Fellow

• University of Haifa 2018-

Research Staff

• MIT Center for Collective Intelligence 2008-2016

Head Teaching Assistant

• MIT Sloan School of Management 2011-2016

Selected Publications

Yarovoy, A., Nagar, Y., Minkov, E., & Arazy, O. (2020). Assessing the Contribution of Subject-matter Experts to Wikipedia. ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 3(4), 1-36.

Nagar, Y., de Boer, P., Garcia, A. C. B. (2016). Accelerating the Review of Complex Intellectual Artifacts in Crowdsourced Innovation Challenges. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Dublin, Ireland.

Nagar, Y. (2012). What do you think? The structuring of an online community as a collective-sensemaking process. In Proceedings of the ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work.

Nagar, Y., & Malone, T. W. (2011). Making Business Predictions by Combining Human and Machine Intelligence in Prediction Markets. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Shanghai, China.

Y. Nagar, 2011. "Beyond the Human-Computation Metaphor," IEEE Third International Conference on Social Computing.