I study how decision-makers, human and artificial, act well individually and together, through game theory, multi-agent systems, human-subjects research, and applied LLMs. Ph.D. in Software and Information Systems Engineering (Ben-Gurion University); postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. My work has been recognized with a Best Paper Award (ACM EC 2016) and selected as a Communications of the ACM Research Highlight (2018). Published in JACM, AIJ, CHI, and IJCAI. I also apply this research in practice, including at DICTA and through independent AI R&D work.
My research centers on decision-making by self-interested and bounded agents, human and artificial, studied through game theory, mechanism design, multi-agent systems, and human-subjects experiments. I am developing a new direction that extends this to LLM-based agents: learning what an agent should communicate to a human, and how, from human preference, in mixed human-agent settings such as autonomous and human-driven vehicles.
A second, applied strand of my research uses large language models and modern NLP for text analysis in specialized domains: authorship attribution, automatic citation generation, and semantic cross-referencing of Hebrew and rabbinic texts (with DICTA), and computational analysis of legal and patent text, including textual studies of disparate outcomes in the patent system. Both involve fine-tuning LLMs for prediction, clustering, and semantic analysis of domain-specific corpora.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2014–2018
Bar-Ilan University
2011–2013
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
2007–2011
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, 23 Nw. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 509 (2026)
Science Translational Medicine, 17(790):eadp0675. 2025
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST). 2020
Journal of the ACM (JACM). 2017
Selected as a Communications of the ACM Research Highlight, 2018.
Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). 2014
VL/HCC. 2022
AAMAS. 2014
Which Is the Fairest (Rent Division) of Them All?
Best Paper Award, ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (2016)
Selected as a Communications of the ACM Research Highlight (2018)
Ben-Gurion University (2016, 2017)
Ben-Gurion University (2014)
JACM · AIJ · Science Translational Medicine · CHI · IJCAI · AAMAS · ACM EC
Israel Science Foundation · U.S.–Israel Binational Science Foundation · U.S. Department of Defense · J.P. Morgan Chase
Taught and lectured at Ben-Gurion University, Tel-Aviv Yafo Academic College, Bar-Ilan University, and Shenkar College. Courses include Databases, Machine Learning, Game Theory, Intelligent Systems, and Software Design. Recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award (2016, 2017).
Served as Final Projects Coordinator and Adviser for undergraduate students at Ben-Gurion University (2015–2018). Departmental Seminar Coordinator for four consecutive years. Mentored students in AI and HCI research at CMU.
Reviewer for top AI venues: AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, KDD, CHI, EC, ECAI, and Group Decision & Negotiation. Developed the voting algorithm for IAAI 2018 Best Paper selection.
Independent AI R&D consultancy (2024–present). Delivers applied NLP, LLM fine-tuning, and multi-agent LLM systems for startups, companies, and academic research groups, primarily continuing the NLP/LLM research agenda at DICTA.