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I am a principal research scientist and a manager at Google Research. My main research interests are Natural Language Processing and Multimodality in the era of GenAI and LLMs. I am leading research efforts around text and multimodal grounding, factuality and consistency, multilinguality and reinforcement learning for LLMs.

You can also view my LinkedIn profile for past positions (including 7 years as a research scientist at Yahoo! Research).

Publications

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Education

2009: PhD in Natural Language Processing at Bar-Ilan University under the supervision of Prof. Ido Dagan.

2005: Master of Science in Natural Language Processing (Summa Cum Laude). Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Supervisors: Dr. Ido Dagan, Prof. Yossi Matias.

1997: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude). Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.