Warm congratulations to Dr. Yonatan Belinkov on winning the 2025 Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research.
Dr. Yonatan Belinkov joined the faculty in October 2020, after completing a PhD at MIT and postdoctoral work at Harvard and MIT. He develops methods for identifying and analyzing world knowledge in large language models.
The applied goal of his research is to enable researchers and users to properly deal with unexpected behaviors that emerge in AI systems, including behaviors that may be harmful. "AI-based decisions increasingly affect us, and some of them are fateful. That is why we are developing tools that will be used, among other things, to deal with challenges of bias, misinformation, and privacy violations."
Vice President for Research, Prof. Noam Adir, said, "The Krill Prize is awarded to outstanding academic faculty members who have been accepted into research universities in Israel in recent years and have already succeeded in breaking new and original paths in their fields of research. Past winners of the prize are among the leaders of research and academia in Israel today, and we believe that the new winners from the Technion will join them in the future."
Last year, Yonatan won an ERC Starting grant, which helps promising young scientists advance their research, form research teams, and pursue bold and original ideas. Candidates are required to demonstrate the potential for scientific breakthroughs, strong ambition, and the feasibility of their research proposal.
The Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation and the Krill family, since 2005, to outstanding academic faculty members and promising researchers from research universities in Israel who have led significant research breakthroughs and are expected to lead research and academia in Israel in the future in the fields of exact sciences, life sciences and medicine, engineering and agriculture. The festive ceremony will take place on June 4 in Ramat Hasharon.
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