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CS Taub Building 733

Technion

Haifa 3200003, Israel

I’m a faculty member at the Technion Taub Faculty of Computer Science and an Azrieli Faculty Fellow. I work on natural language processing, focusing on the following areas:

  • Interpretability
  • Robustness
  • NLP for Hebrew and Arabic
  • Emergent communication

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 looking for motivated candidates to join my group. If you would like to pursue graduate studies with me (Master’s or PhD), please send your CV, transcripts, and example code projects to the following address: lastname at technion.ac.il. You should have prior experience (via courses, industry, independent study, etc.) in NLP and/or machine learning, preferably both. Information about the application process is available here. If you would like to do a postdoc with me, please send your CV, a list of publications, and (optionally) a short research proposal.