Dr. Alon Bartal
Mining and modeling complex graphs and networks at all scales such as social media and biological networks.
- Analyzing large-scale data and online media
- Bioinformatics
- Business Analytics
- Computational Biology
- Graph-theory algorithms and machine learning
- Mining and modeling large social and information networks
- Network Analysis (e.g., diffusion of information and influence in networks)
A note to students: I am looking for highly motivated students. If you are interested in my research topics and looking for an advisor, please email me and attach: your academic grade transcript, and CV.
CV
Research
My research mainly involves analyzing and modeling complex and dynamic networks at all scales, such as biological networks, and human interactions. I apply tools of Computational Biology, Natural Language Processing, Complex Network Analysis, and Machine Learning for better understanding observed processes, such as gene-disease associations, social interaction, mechanisms of influence, and contagion spread in social and biological networks.
Courses
70833-01 Artificial Intelligence
70651-01 Data Warehouses in a World of Big Data
70628-15 Management Technologies for Big Data
70616-15 Programing Tools for Analytics
70759-01 Social Network Analysis
Publications
Selected publications:
Allouche-Kam, H., Felsenstein, T. E., Arora, I. H., Bartal, A., Pham, C. T., Chan, S. J., and Dekel, S. (2026). Witnessing trauma in the digital era: Uncensored media associates with posttraumatic stress in perinatal women. Journal of Affective Disorders, 122018. [link]
Bartal, A., Pliskin, N., Jagodnik, K. M., Galea-Curmi, G., and Seidmann, A. (2026). ALERT: An AI-enabled decision support approach for early risk monitoring from heterogeneous data. Decision Support Systems, 114684. [link]
*Brettler, L., *Berman, E., *Jagodnik, K. M., and Bartal, A. (2025). DruGNNosis-MoA: Elucidating drug mechanisms as etiological or palliative with graph neural networks employing a large language model. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 29, 6892-6901. [link]
Bartal, A., *Jagodnik, K. M., Chan, S. J., and Dekel, S. (2024). AI and narrative embeddings detect PTSD following childbirth via birth stories. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8336. [link]
Bartal, A., *Jagodnik, K. M., Chan, S. J., Babu, M. S., and Dekel, S. (2023). Identifying women with post-delivery post-traumatic stress disorder using natural language processing of childbirth narratives. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology MFM, 5(3), 100834. [link]
For a full list of publications please see:
https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=Z_vkNyEAAAAJ&hl=en
Last Updated Date : 07/06/2026
