Yonatan Belinkov

CS Taub Building 733

Technion

Haifa 3200003, Israel

I’m an associate professor at the Technion Taub Faculty of Computer Science with a secondary affiliation at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I am a former Azrieli Faculty Fellow.

I work on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, especially large language models, multi-modal models, and other natural language processing models. Main research interests:

• Interpretability, robustness, safety, and controllability
• AI for science, especially biological language models
• Emergent and multi-agent communication

I spent the 2025-2026 academic year at the Kempner Institute.

I was previously a postdoc at Harvard SEAS, where I was affiliated with the Mind, Brain, Behavior initiative and worked mainly with Stuart Shieber. I was also affiliated with the NLP group and the CCNLab at Harvard.

During my postdoc I also worked with the Spoken Language Systems group at MIT CSAIL, where I completed my PhD under the supervision of James Glass. My PhD thesis analyzed internal language representations in deep learning models, with particular applications to machine translation and speech recognition.

Before coming to MIT I worked as a software engineer in IntuView while pursuing a Master’s in Arabic Studies at Tel Aviv University with a thesis on the Arabic dialect of Jisir izZarga. My undergrauate degree was in Mathematics and Arabic Studies, also at Tel Aviv University.

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