About Me

I am an assistant professor (senior lecturer) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Computer Science and Engineering, and a research scientist at The Allen Institute for AI (AI2). My primary focus is on AI for literature-based scientific discovery and creativity: LLMs/agents for generating novel and interesting research directions, discovering cross-domain inspirations, human-AI interaction for research ideation, assessing and optimizing novelty, forecasting future science, retrieving and extracting information from papers, predicting links in scientific knowledge graphs. I also work on biomedical applications (e.g., clinical outcome prediction, medical imaging with VLMs, biomedical knowledge graphs, genomic language models, psychiatric hospital data).

My work has received five best paper awards, appeared in top venues (e.g., ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, CHI, PNAS), and received coverage from Nature and Science. I was a postdoctoral researcher at AI2 and the University of Washington (UW), working with Daniel Weld and Eric Horvitz. Before that, I did my PhD with Dafna Shahaf and in parallel led an applied AI research team at Intel that published award-winning work. I was awarded the Azrieli Early Career Faculty Fellowship which is given to eight scientists across all fields of study. I am an ELLIS Society member.

I discuss my long-standing research pursuits in a perspective paper on the cover of CACM (2023), and in these talks and interviews from the past few years: