Maayan
Roichman

Dr. Maayan Roichman is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Dr. Michal Kravel-Tovi.

She is also a postdoctoral affiliate in the Department of Industrial Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Eran Toch. As an anthropologist, Maayan’s research explores the production of culture, values, and ideas.

In her current research she is planning to employ ethnographic methods to examine the different values that shape the production of AI-infused technologies. She hopes that this work will contribute to our understanding of the deep connection between computational reason and human work, inform normative debates on AI ethics, and promote the development of ethical engineering pedagogies.

Maayan was born in Tel Aviv, and commenced her BA in Tel Aviv University’s Multidisciplinary Program in the Arts at the age of fifteen. She later joined its Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, where she earned her MA in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She was chosen as one of the two inaugural Israeli Rhodes scholars and completed her DPhil in anthropology at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Dr. Dace Dzenovska. Her doctoral research focused on the ethical and political dimensions of film production in Israel. While at Oxford, Maayan worked in the Rhodes Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAIL), which she co-directed from 2019 to 2020. In her free time, Maayan enjoys travelling, dancing, and spending time at the beach with family and friends.