Prof. Zalmanson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Management and Information Systems at the Faculty, serving as Department Chair since October 2025. Head of AIMLAB – the Artificial Intelligence in Management, Labor and Business. His research focuses on integration of AI in traditional organizations, user engagement and commitment in digital environments, business models of content platforms, and algorithmic management.
His work has received grants and awards from the ERC (Starting Grant 2023–2029), the Fulbright Foundation, the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), Grant for the Web, the Dan David Prize, Google, and others, and has been published in leading journals such as MIS Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, as well as MIT Sloan Management Review and Harvard Business Review.
In 2021, he received the Early Career Award from the AIS – the Association for Information Systems. In 2022, he received the Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award, and in the same year was recognized by Poets and Quants magazine as one of the “40 Best Business School Professors Under 40” worldwide. In 2025, he was elected to the Israel Young Academy of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Prof. Zalmanson previously served as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Haifa and Reichman University and has taught at New York University, Cornell University Hong Kong University, and Arizona State University. His research has attracted significant media attention internationally—including The Times, Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, Fast Company, The Standard, Wired UK, The Observer—and extensively in the Israeli press. In 2016, he was a visiting researcher at the Digital Media Lab of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In addition to his academic roles, Prof. Zalmanson bridges the worlds of art, society, and technology. In 2011, he founded the Print Screen Festival for Digital Art and Culture at the Holon Mediatheque. He serves as co-director of the Digital Forum of the Israeli Museums Association. His creative works in art, writing, and technology have received fellowships and awards and have been exhibited in Israel and abroad. He has also served as an editorial board member at Alaxon Magazine for Culture and Science, a reader for the New Fund for Cinema and Television, the Rabinovich Foundation, and the CoPro Foundation, and has advised numerous projects and events in the fields of technology and new media in Israel and internationally.
