Ori Plonsky

I am a behavioral scientist and a Senior Lecturer (assistant professor) at the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion since 2020.

I study behavioral decision making, human learning, and the integration of data science with behavioral science. My main focus is on prediction of human choices and the computational modeling of behavior.

In 2021, I was awarded the Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award of the Society of Judgement and Decision Making. My research was published in outlets such as Psychological Review, Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Applied Psychology, and PNAS. I am currently an editorial board member of the Journal of Behavioral Decision making.

Prior to joining the Technion as faculty, I completed my Ph.D. in behavioral sciences at the Technion, served as a researcher in The Israel Democracy Institute, and was a post-doctoral associate in the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University.

If you’d like to know a bit more about (some of) my interests, you can watch this, this, or this video (Prospective graduate students, see below)

From that time I wore a tie (my wedding day)

Prospective graduate students should watch this short video (in Hebrew, English subtitles) to get a sense of what I am looking for (somewhat outdated, but gives a decent clue):

NEWS

April 2025. Proud of my student Eyal Marantz, whose conference paper, “Predicting Human Choice Between Textually Described Lotteries” was accepted for presentation as a poster with full publication at CogSci 2025 proceedings.

April 2025. Proud of my student Peter Ayoub who is a co-author of our paper “Underweighting of Rare Events in Strategic Games”, now published in Experimental Economics.

January 2025. I gave an invited seminar talk in the Behavioral Research Seminar in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

January 2025. I was invited to visit and give a talk in the Department of Economics and Management, Bielefeld University, Germany.

December 2024. I gave an invited seminar talk in the Zelman Center for Cognition and Brain Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

December 2024. I gave an invited seminar talk in the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making, and Action (CAIDA) at UBC. The talk was recorded and can be accessed here.

December 2024. I gave a talk in the Behavioral Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR) seminar, at the Rotman School of Management in UoT.

September 2024. Very proud of my student Or David Agassi, the 1st author of our paper “Beyond analytic bounds: Re-evaluating predictive power in risky decision models”, now published in Judgement and Decision Making.

August 2024. Very proud of my student Vered Shoshan, the 1st author of our paper “Using machine learning to create an adaptable, scalable, and interpretable behavioral model”, now published in Decision.

February 2024. I was honored to be invited to visit and give a talk in the INSEAD Decision Sciences Seminar in Fontainebleau, France.

February 2024. I gave an invited talk in the “Data sciences as key tools for decision making” conference at the Technion.

January 2024. I gave an invited seminar talk at the Econ-CS seminar in the Hebrew University.

January 2024. I was awarded the Technion Excellent Teacher Award (top 4% of student evaluations) for the 2022-3 Spring semester.

November 2023. I gave an invited seminar talk at the University of Exeter Economics department.