Mark Israel
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Research, teaching, mentoring

Academic record

Academia is not a separate chapter in my career but its second axis: a Cum Laude bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, a master’s in technology management, a doctorate in progress on information systems quality assessment — alongside nearly twenty years of teaching, mentoring and international academic activity.

Degrees

  1. 2020–

    Ph.D. in Computer Science (in progress)

    KhAI — National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute"

    Completion was delayed due to the geopolitical situation in the region

  2. 2019

    M.Sc. in Technology Management · specialising in Information Systems

    HIT — Holon Institute of Technology

  3. 2007

    B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics · Cum Laude

    HIT — Holon Institute of Technology

    Final project in artificial intelligence — awarded a certificate of excellence

Information systems quality assessment

Doctoral research

My research addresses a question that sounds simple but is not: how do you measure whether an information system actually works for the organisation it is installed in — rather than merely meeting its technical specification.

Dissertation topic

A model and method for organisation-oriented information systems quality assessment (Organisation-Oriented Model). The work rests on four scientific results (NR1–NR4) and comprises an Organisation-Features Description Operator and a confirmed-usefulness evaluation method.

Supervisor: Prof. Vyacheslav Kharchenko

Research interests

  • Organisation-oriented information systems quality assessment
  • Governance models and KPIs for information systems
  • The DeLone & McLean IS Success Model
  • Integration of artificial intelligence into quality assessment
  • Enterprise information systems architecture

The metrics framework

A series of English-language articles specialises a parent KPI governance framework across seven metrics, including an LNCS version of the AIA article:

  • OWEOrganisational Work Efficiency
  • DLDecision Latency
  • MAIManagement Attention Index
  • EESEnd-user Experience Score
  • RRCRisk & Regulatory Compliance
  • RMARResource Match & Allocation Ratio
  • AIAAI Assistance / Augmentation

The full publication list, with DOIs and links, appears further down this page.

Bibliography

Publications

Journal and international conference papers and a monograph chapter, most co-authored with Prof. Vyacheslav Kharchenko. Titles appear in their language of publication.

  1. 2026Under review

    Israel M., Kharchenko V.

    Risk Response Compliance in Organizational Information Systems: An Integrated Five-Family Compliance-Behaviour Framework with Sectoral Differentiation and Control-Effectiveness Diagnostics

    Herald of Advanced Information Technology

    Journal articleEnglish

  2. 2026Under review

    Israel M., Kharchenko V.

    Comparative Evaluation of the Three-Tier KPI Specialization Methodology across Seven Governance KPIs

    DESSERT 2026 — International Conference on Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies

    Conference paperEnglish

  3. 2026Under review

    Israel M., Kharchenko V.

    AI Adoption Across Sectors: Comparative Review Based on the Literature and an Integrated Measurement Framework

    ICTERI 2026 — ICT in Education, Research and Industrial Applications

    Conference paperEnglish

  4. 2026Under review

    Israel M., Kharchenko V.

    Organization-Wide Effectiveness of Information Systems: An Integrated Three-Tier Measurement Framework with Sectoral Differentiation and Adaptive Self-Diagnostic Capability

    International Journal of Computing

    Journal articleEnglish

  5. 2026Published

    Israel M., Kharchenko V.

    An Integrated KPI Framework for Organisational Information Systems: Mapping Seven Governance-Level Metrics to ISO/IEC 25010:2023 Attributes

    Computer Systems and Information Technologies

    Journal article2026, No. 2English10.31891/csit-2026-2-20

    Open
  6. 2023Published

    Ізраїль М., Харченко В. С., Гордєєв О. О. (Israel M., Kharchenko V. S., Gordieiev O. O.)

    Методи оцінювання та підвищення якості інформаційних систем на підставі аналізу даних — Methods for assessing and improving the quality of information systems based on data analysis

    Методи та технології забезпечення якості та безпеки інтелектуальних систем: монографія / за ред. В. С. Харченка, О. І. Морозової. — Харків: Юстон, 2023. — 352 с.

    Monograph chapterChapter 5, pp. 74–90UkrainianISBN 978-617-8335-01-4

  7. 2020Published

    Гордєєв О. О., Ізраїль М., Харченко В. С. (Gordieiev O. O., Israel M., Kharchenko V. S.)

    Якість програмного забезпечення: моделі оцінювання доцільності засіву та життєвий цикл профілю дефектів — Software quality: injection necessity assessment model and defects profile life cycle

    Науковий вісник НЛТУ України — Scientific Bulletin of UNFU

    Journal articleVol. 30, No. 5, pp. 114–122Ukrainian10.36930/40300519

    Open
  8. 2020Published

    Israel M., Kharchenko V.

    Quality Assessment Models of Information Systems: Analysis and Data Based Enhancing for GIS Projects

    Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information-Communication Technologies & Embedded Systems (ICT&ES-2020), Mykolaiv, Ukraine

    Conference paperCEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2762, paper 2English

    Open

Appearances

Conference talks

Conferences and scientific seminars where I presented the research.

  1. 23.04.2026

    An Integrated KPI Framework for Organisational Information Systems

    17th International Student Scientific-Technical Conference "Perspective Network and Computer Technologies" (PERSIK 2026)

    National Aerospace University "KhAI", Kharkiv, Ukraine · Advisor: Prof. V. Kharchenko

  2. 10.2024

    Applicability of Adaptive Models for Evaluating the Quality of Information Systems

    Scientific seminar, Department of Computer Systems, Networks and Cybersecurity, National Aerospace University "KhAI"

    Kharkiv, Ukraine (online) · Academic advisor: Prof. V. Kharchenko

  3. 12.11.2020

    Quality Assessment Models of Information Systems: Analysis and Data Based Enhancing for GIS Projects

    2nd International Workshop on Information-Communication Technologies & Embedded Systems (ICT&ES-2020)

    Mykolaiv, Ukraine · Co-author: Prof. V. Kharchenko

Passing it on

Teaching & mentoring

An uncommon combination of mathematical depth, current applied knowledge in information systems, software development, GIS and artificial intelligence, and the ability to connect theory to practice.

Teaching areas

  • Applied mathematics
  • Information systems
  • Software development and programming
  • GIS and geo-informatics
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Project management and execution
  • Databases
  • Technological innovation
  • Lecturer in GIS, innovation, software development and project management in the Faculty of Exact Sciences at HIT (2016–2025).
  • Mentored hundreds of student projects — from user requirements specification to product (POC), in collaboration with industry.
  • Managed and trained a team of ~20 mentors and domain coordinators, and organised national conferences for presenting student projects.
  • Teaching Assistant at Ariel University Center of Samaria (2009–2010) and in the Faculty of Sciences at HIT (2007–2016).
  • Among the faculty’s most highly regarded TAs for knowledge, openness and willingness to help — per recommendations from senior lecturers.
“The outputs of the students’ project-based training are enormous and have transformed the face of the Faculty of Exact Sciences.”
Dr Dmitry Goldstein · Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Sciences, HIT

HIT · 2016–2025

The Projects & Industry Collaboration Center

The model I built: a two-semester project in which students develop and research in order to create a genuinely valuable product for a high-tech company, gaining hands-on experience along the way.

  • More than 25 projects successfully completed for various companies, including government bodies and technology leaders.
  • Students work with the latest technologies and best-practice documentation, making the output easy to integrate into the company’s core product.
  • The project manager is the partner company’s single point of contact — participation costs the company almost nothing in time or resources.
  • Where appropriate, an NDA is signed by every project participant.
  • Project domains: GIS, cyber, IoT, AI/ML, Web and SaaS, Fin-Tech, 3D, agriculture, drones and navigation.
  • The Smart Campus project: dozens of sensors and a LoRaWAN network deployed on campus to monitor living conditions and air quality, including UI development — and a candidacy for the Horizon programme in smart buildings.

An institutional programme

Work-integrated learning

In 2022 HIT submitted an institutional programme, on which I served as Projects Development Manager, aiming for every student to gain genuine professional experience as part of their degree — part of the institute’s 2021–2025 five-year plan.

180+
students in the programme
14
elective courses with industry
~100
hours of hands-on experience
  • An institutional array was established covering academic and professional staff, a projects centre, collaboration agreements with leading high-tech industries, training courses, development labs and a data and metrics system — all under one roof, as a "technological incubator" for students and faculty.
  • The strategic outline: assessing the current state and setting targets, building technological infrastructure and prioritising practical projects, prioritising collaboration agreements, and building specialisation training tracks.
  • Ongoing collaboration agreements were signed with industry, government, academic and medical bodies — high-tech companies, government ministries, local authorities, security organisations and health organisations.
  • The programme runs in the Faculty of Sciences and expands gradually to further faculties — electrical and electronic engineering, technology management, learning technologies, design, and digital medical technologies.
  • A structured evaluation system: questionnaires for students, lecturers and host organisations, plus longitudinal studies examining salary, employment integration rates, social mobility among disadvantaged populations and gender comparisons.

Specialisation domains

  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Computer vision
  • Voice and speech processing
  • Big Data
  • Augmented reality
  • Cyber defence
  • Autonomous drones and 3D image modelling
  • Mapping technologies and GIS
  • Smart cities and IoT
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Digital medical technologies
  • Financial technologies
  • Robotics and intelligent systems
  • Wearable computing

Host organisations

Ongoing collaboration agreements for initiating and developing technology, signed with industry, government, academic and medical bodies.

Health & digital medicine

Medical centres hosting placements and development projects

  • Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer
  • Ichilov — Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
  • Abarbanel Mental Health Center
  • Beilinson Hospital

High-tech & software

Technology companies that mentored development teams

  • Credorax
  • Sapiens Israel
  • Taldor
  • Enigmatos
  • Riskana
  • Ituran ERM
  • Meknaf
  • GOOL — learning systems development

Government, infrastructure & authorities

Public sector and infrastructure bodies

  • Survey of Israel
  • Israel Electric Corporation
  • Shaham Mekorot Bitzua
  • Sorek desalination plant
  • Holon Municipality
  • Israel Police
  • COGAT — Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
  • The "Erez" coordination and liaison administration

HIT · 2016–2025

Selected projects

A sample from the hundreds of projects I supervised, chosen to show the range. Each was built by a student team into a working prototype, in collaboration with a company or organisation from industry.

GIS & smart city

Location-based applications for the urban space — some with the "Erez" coordination administration

  • City-Pop — resident-side reporting of city faults; Android synchronised to a central server in real time
  • City-Manager — the manager side: oversight of open faults and dispatch of the right crew to the exact point
  • Geo-News — news by radius from the device and by interest, with events marked on the map
  • Infra-Management — mapping and measuring municipal lighting fixtures for decision makers
  • Geo-Chat "Here iM" — group members share live locations on a shared map
  • Geo-Photo "Pick a Pic" — a collaborative photo repository laid out geographically
  • Movement coordination for international organisations — planned route marking, data entry and documentation of emergency movements

Fin-Tech

Payments, standards and financial regulation — with Credorax

  • 3D Secure 2.0 implementation — the merchant-side server, including frictionless and challenge flows
  • EMV QR code — a merchant web system and an Android app paying by code scan to the EMV standard
  • P2P ETL — a peer-to-peer communication and data transfer protocol, implemented in Python
  • Berlin Group API simulation — the testing environment European PSD2 requires banks to expose
  • Data science — predicting consumer behaviour and the effect of 3D Secure on transaction approval rates

Digital medicine

With Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer

  • Patient questionnaires — a web system for physicians to enter questionnaires tailored to each patient
  • Patient app — answering the daily questionnaire from a phone, fully interfaced with the server
  • Pacemakers info-processing — hardware and software interfacing with different pacemaker machines, extracting their data and unifying it into a single database

Cyber security

With Sapiens Israel

  • Cyber AI — threat detection through machine learning
  • User behaviour analytics — profiling usage patterns to surface anomalies
  • Automated risk management assessment

Remote sensing & image processing

From the 3D model to the flying platform

  • Object identification from a 3D geographic model — manual sampling of buildings plus automatic detection via image-processing algorithms, exporting to SHP and GeoJSON
  • "Bounded GPS" — an Arduino and GPS component keeping the user inside a defined polygon; part of a library for controlling autonomous agricultural vehicles

Events

Conferences I organised

Alongside the mentoring I organised national conferences connecting the general public to the technology surrounding it — and exhibited the selected student projects there.

  • "New Trends in the Public Space" — a conference I organised in August 2019, set out to show that technological progress is not remote but a daily component of our lives.
  • Four lectures: founding the GIS practice at the JNF and building GIS environments worldwide · the information-security risks facing a private individual · water and habitat management in the Gaza Strip for the International Committee of the Red Cross · financial technology and where citizens meet it.
  • Running alongside the conference — an exhibition of the Projects Center’s selected projects, all aimed at the general public.
  • Further national conferences presenting student projects, plus matching events between companies and development teams.

International academic activity

Lectures, courses and academic consulting at institutions abroad.

Uzbekistan

Courses and consulting on establishing a 3D modelling laboratory in geology

Ukraine

Academic and research activity, including a seminar at KhAI

Azerbaijan

Lectures and academic consulting

North Macedonia

Lectures and academic consulting

Continuous learning

Training & certifications

Technology & data

Professional training in the core technology domains

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Course · 2026
  • Salesforce CRM Course · 2026
  • PostgreSQL DBA Course · 2019
  • Data Analytics in Big Data, John Bryce · 2017
  • Web Development in GIS, HackerU · 2016
  • Data Scientist Course

Management & governance

Training at the executive and board level

  • CIO Programme, Technion — External Studies Unit · 2025
  • PMO Course, John Bryce · 2025
  • Directors Training, Beit Berl — Institute for Leadership, Histadrut · 2024
  • Senior Executives Course, COGAT · 2023
  • Systems Analysis Course, John Bryce · 2014

Teaching material I developed

Complete modules I built and delivered

  • Introduction to Machine Learning and AI — regression, trees, clustering, graphs and search, ethics in ML
  • Big Data — structured and unstructured data, analysis pipelines, cloud, loading techniques and algorithms
  • GIS — from fundamentals to geographic application development
  • Software development project management and technological innovation
  • GIS applications — a course for users and operators: principles, standards, open source, moving from 2D to 3D, Big Data in a geographic context and running multi-platform GIS projects

Happy to talk

Get in touch

Open to executive roles, academic collaborations, technology consulting and board positions.