Assistant Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Founder, Data for Social Good Lab; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science & Engineering

Alumni

Specializations
Informatics, Social Sciences

Biography

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

UW mentors 
Carlos Guestrin, Computer Science & Engineering

Josh Blumenstock, Information School

Education history 
Postdoctoral Researcher in Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Ben-Gurion University Ph.D., Information System Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, 2013
M.S., Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, 2004
B.Sc., Computer Science & Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, 2004

Research goals 
Michael Fire intends to study how social groups formulate, evolve, and dissolve over time. He believes that large-scale spatio-temporal mobile social networks with billions of links can reveal significant insights into how social groups are created and behave.

As part of this project, he plans to develop an open and intuitive infrastructure for performing spatio-temporal analyses of large-scale social networks. This infrastructure can then be used by social science researchers to test and validate various hypotheses formulated over the decades.