Prof. Ofir Ben-Assuli

Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Business Administration. Lecturer and researcher in data mining.

About

Prof. Ben-Assuli is Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Ono Academic College in Bio-Informatics, Data Mining, Health Analytics, Information Systems and Information Systems Policy, and Business-technology consultant for managing and operating technological systems. He is currently the chair of the Israel Association for Information Systems (ILAIS), a Chapter of the Association for Information Systems.

He has been published in well-established journals, including MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Health Policy, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making and the Journal of Medical Systems.

Additionally, he serves as the Editorial Board Associate Editor at several journals, including Health Policy and Technology journal. Prof. Ben-Assuli has been awarded several international and Israeli grants for his research. He received funding from the U.S. – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), the National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research (NIHP), the Chief Scientist Office of the Ministry of Health, among others.

and more. Prof. Ben-Assuli has also been awarded several prizes for excellence in research, including the best paper of the year in Decision Sciences journal. In the past, he developed Information Systems for MLL and worked in various technical positions at the computer communications company Rad-Binat, among other roles.

Education

Ph.D

Medical Information Systems, Information Systems Department, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv ‎University- 2011

M.B.A

magna cum laude, School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem- 2005

B.A

magna cum laude, in economics and computer science, Ben-Gurion University of the ‎Negev- 2002

Teaching Areas

Mathematics for Business Administration; Decision Support Systems; Data Mining, Decision-Making and Implementation in Information Systems and Information Systems Policy.

Research interests

Bio-Informatics, Data Mining in the Medical Arena, Econometrics, Health Analytics, Economics of Health, Medical Decision-Making, Information Systems Policy and Value of Information in the Decision-Making Process.

Selected Publications