About me

I’m an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and lecturer with deep expertise in large language models (LLMs) and their practical applications. I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where I was advised by Prof. Jonathan Berant and Dr. Yair Carmon. My research focused on advancing LLMs for real-world use, with works on model scaling, long-context processing, fallback behaviors, and data curation. I graduated summa cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later co-founded Demystify-AI, serving as CTO and leading the development of an explainable AI platform for healthcare and finance. I’ve also built and deployed AI solutions in domains ranging from computer vision and network analysis to energy and law enforcement, with an emphasis on reliability and scalability. Today, I work at the forefront of AI research and advise leading Israeli companies on developing state-of-the-art NLP and data science products. I also designed and teach a popular NLP course at Tel Aviv University, which has trained nearly 500 students over the past two years.

Publications

DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models

Jeffrey Li*, Alex Fang*, Georgios Smyrnis*, Maor Ivgi*, Matt Jordan, Samir Gadre, Hritik Bansal, Etash Guha, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Saurabh Garg, Rui Xin, Niklas Muennighoff, Reinhard Heckel, Jean Mercat, Mayee Chen, Suchin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Alon Albalak, Yonatan Bitton, Marianna Nezhurina, Amro Abbas, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Dhruba Ghosh, Josh Gardner, Maciej Kilian, Hanlin Zhang, Rulin Shao, Sarah Pratt, Sunny Sanyal, Gabriel Ilharco, Giannis Daras, Kalyani Marathe, Aaron Gokaslan, Jieyu Zhang, Khyathi Chandu, Thao Nguyen, Igor Vasiljevic, Sham Kakade, Shuran Song, Sujay Sanghavi, Fartash Faghri, Sewoong Oh, Luke Zettlemoyer, Kyle Lo, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Hadi Pouransari, Alexander Toshev, Stephanie Wang, Dirk Groeneveld, Luca Soldaini, Pang Wei Koh, Jenia Jitsev, Thomas Kollar, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Yair Carmon, Achal Dave*, Ludwig Schmidt*, Vaishaal Shankar*. Published in NeurIPS 2024

Teaching

Patents