- Pioneer in applying information theory to neural networks, with seminal work featured in Quanta Magazine and Wired
- Published extensively in top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML)
- Google PhD Fellowship recipient (2018-2021)
- Best Paper Award, Information Fusion journal (2023)
- CPAL Rising Star Award, The University of Hong Kong (2023)
- Moore-Sloan Fellowship, NYU (2021-2022)
Research Experience
- Senior AI Researcher & Team Lead, Wand AI, Jan 2023 – Present
- Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, NYU, Center for Data Science, Sep 2021 – Present
- Senior AI & Data Science Researcher, Intel, Jan 2020 – Dec 2023
- Research Student, Google AI, Jun 2019 – May 2020
- AI & Data Science Researcher, Intel, Feb 2013 – May 2019
- Algorithm and Web Developer, Wikipedia, Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Education
Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, 2021, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Computational Biology, 2014, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Background
Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at NYU’s Center for Data Science, leading cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs) and their applications. His work spans theoretical foundations and practical implementations, combining academic rigor with industry impact.
Miscellany
Interests include: Large Language Models (LLMs), Model Efficiency & Compression, Information Theory, Neural Network Interpretability, Self-Supervised Learning, Representation Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Personalization in AI