I am an AI researcher who studies how people and intelligent agents can work well together. My work brings together multi-agent systems, game theory, and machine learning, with an applied line of research in natural language processing and large language models.
My research follows three main directions. The first asks how humans and computer agents interact, coordinate, and reach agreements in shared environments, and how to design agents that act well alongside people. The second studies the people who build AI: how machine learning practitioners and data scientists work, and where they get stuck, so that tools can help at the right moment. The third develops LLM-based methods that extract structure and meaning from large collections of specialized text, for example predicting the authors of historical texts whose attribution has long been disputed.
I hold a Ph.D. in Software and Information Systems Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. My work received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2016) and was selected as a Communications of the ACM (CACM) Research Highlight (2018), with publications in JACM, AIJ, ACM TIST, CHI, IJCAI, and AAMAS.
Alongside research, I have more than a decade of hands-on industry experience taking AI systems from research to production. At Amdocs I designed and deployed, end to end, a churn-prediction system that saved millions of dollars; at DICTA I develop AI models for understanding large collections of text; and through MashInnovateAI, the AI R&D consultancy I founded, I help companies solve their core challenges with AI.
I have taught at five institutions, twice received Ben-Gurion University's Excellence in Teaching Award, and mentored students at Ben-Gurion University and Carnegie Mellon University. I serve as a reviewer for AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, KDD, CHI, EC, and ECAI.
Hosts: Prof. Reid Simmons and Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal
My research studied the people who build AI systems: how machine learning practitioners and data scientists work as they develop models, and where they get stuck. I developed DSWorkFlow, a framework that captures data scientists' workflows from Jupyter notebooks, reconstructs the order in which code was executed, and combines it with qualitative data, and used it in studies of data scientists building machine learning models (CHI). Building on that data, I developed a model that predicts stuckness from real-time indicators such as code artifacts, and an algorithm that times an intervention as close as possible to the onset of stuckness (VL/HCC).
I mentored computer science students. The research was funded by J.P. Morgan, which renewed the award for a second consecutive year based on the project's results.
I lead the center's NLP and LLM research on large collections of Hebrew and rabbinic texts: setting the research agenda, designing the methods, and taking systems from prototype to tools in active use by scholars. The work combines fine-tuned LLMs and custom text embeddings trained with contrastive learning for domain-specific corpora, powering information extraction, semantic search, text similarity, clustering, and question answering over long, complex documents, together with deep-learning models for morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of long documents at scale. I built the end-to-end training and inference pipeline, with tooling to analyze model outcomes and inspect the training process, and deployed the resulting document-understanding systems to production.
Example projects:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dissertation: Reaching Fair Agreements in Group Settings
Advisor: Prof. Ya’akov (Kobi) Gal
Bar-Ilan University
Thesis: Joint Exploration with Self-Interested Agents
Advisor: Prof. David Sarne
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
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?, selected as a Research Highlight by Communications of the ACM.
Which Is the Fairest (Rent Division) of Them All?
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israel Science Foundation (ISF) · U.S.–Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) · U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) · J.P. Morgan Chase
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv Yafo Academic College, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, and the College of Management. Courses include Machine Learning, Game Theory, Intelligent Systems, Decision Support Systems, Statistical Methods in Computer Science, Databases, Object-Oriented Programming, Analysis and Design of Software Systems, and Introduction to Computer Science and Programming.
Excellence in Teaching Award, Ben-Gurion University (2016, 2017).
Mentored undergraduate students in AI at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (2019–2022). Advised master's students at Ben-Gurion University (2014–2018). Final Projects Coordinator and Adviser for undergraduate students, Ben-Gurion University (2015–2018). Seminar Coordinator of the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University (2015–2018).
AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, KDD, CHI, ACM EC, ECAI, and Group Decision & Negotiation.
Developed the voting algorithm used for the IAAI 2018 Best Paper selection.