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CS Taub Building 733

Technion

Haifa 3200003, Israel

I’m an associate professor at the Technion Taub Faculty of Computer Science and a former Azrieli Faculty Fellow. I’m spending the 2025-2026 academic year at the Kempner Institute.

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
  • Emergent and multi-agent communication
  • AI for science, especially biological language models

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.

Note to prospective students: I am spending the 2025-2026 academic year at the Kempner Institute and will not be accepting new students in 2025-2026. Read on for opportunities for 2026-2027.

  • Harvard and local Boston area collaborations: If you’re at the Kempner, other Harvard schools, or are based in the Boston area and would like to collaborate, please get in touch!

  • Post-doc candidates: If you’re looking for a post-doc for starting in Fall 2026, please get in touch. Many post-doc fellowships have early deadlines. Please send your CV, a list of publications, and (optionally) a short research proposal.

  • Prospective PhD students: If you’re looking for a PhD advisor for 2026-2027, feel free to get in touch during spring of 2026. Please send your CV, transcripts, and example code projects to the following address: lastname at technion.ac.il.

  • Prospective MSc students: If you’re a currently enrolled MSc student at the Technion looking for an advisor, feel free to get in touch. Please send your CV, transcripts, and example code projects to the following address: lastname at technion.ac.il. If you are not yet enrolled, you should apply directly to the MSc program at the Faculty of Computer Science. You do not need to identify an advisor before applying. I do not have capacity to supervise external MSc students.

  • Undergraduate positions: We do not typically have internship positions for undergrads from other institutions, so please do not send such inquiries.