He has received an NSF CAREER award, paper awards, honorable mentions, and spotlight presentations at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, and IROS, as well as a TACL test-of-time award. He has also participated in numerous workshops and speaking engagements.
Research Experience
He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Cornell Tech at Cornell University, arXiv's associate faculty director, and a researcher at ASAPP. His lab is located at the NYC Cornell Tech campus.
Education
He holds a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where he was advised by Luke Zettlemoyer.
Background
His research interests include natural language modeling and learning, covering learning from interactions and feedback, LLM pre- and post-training, reinforcement learning for language acquisition, grounded and multimodal language modeling, and evaluation. His work also extends to robotics, computer vision, and cognitive science.
Miscellany
He posts paper recommendations on RecNet and is building a new academic community with COLM.