Between 2005 and 2008, Naaman held a position at
Yahoo! Research Berkeley, where his work focused on
automated tagging and classification of photos. He participated in the development of Yahoo's now-defunct location sharing platform
Fire Eagle. In 2008, he became an assistant professor at
Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, which he held for five years until becoming one of the first faculty members at Cornell Tech in 2013. Naaman participated in the founding of several startups. He was the co-founder (along with Tarikh Korula) and Chief Scientist of Mahaya Inc, a media aggregation and ranking service, which created the event-based photo aggregation app Seen. In 2014, Seen received $1.25 million in venture funding from
Horizons Ventures and KEC Ventures and was used for live event aggregation by customers such as
The Bowery Presents and
Governors Ball Music Festival. Naaman is the lead organizer for the Tech, Media, and Democracy course, a partnership between six New York City universities (Cornell Tech,
Columbia,
CUNY,
NYU,
The New School, and
Pratt Institute). The course combines journalistic and computational methods to teach students interested in media and technology about issues relating to credibility and misinformation, protection of media and journalists, media business models, and technology that supports journalism. In 2018, Naaman served as a General Chair of the
ACM Conference on
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. At Cornell Tech, Naaman is the director of the Connected Experiences Lab and the Social Technologies Lab. == Honors and awards ==