Prof. Ravid is a senior faculty member in Information Systems at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His Ph.D., titled “Information Sharing With CMC in Small Groups: Communication Groups and Tasks,” is from Haifa University, his MBA from the Hebrew University, and his B. Sc. in Agricultural Engineering from the Technion. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Professor Ravid’s main interests focus on the relationship between social structure and human behavior, games and gamification, computer-mediated communication systems, and Information systems in agriculture. His work includes such research as information overload phenomena, the social structure in web-based educational forums, wiki-based education and Wikipedia as a social space, celebrity formation, the “social structure” of lightning synchronization, civil information needs and information sharing in groups, learning with games and gamification solutions, network sampling and social networks analysis. He has published in top peer-reviewed journals, including Information Systems Research, First Monday, Information Systems Journal, and Information sciences.