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: LLMs/agents for generating research directions, discovering cross-domain inspirations, human-AI interaction for research, assessing and optimizing novelty, scientific forecasting, retrieving and extracting information from papers. I also work on biomedical applications (e.g., clinical outcome prediction, medical imaging with VLMs, biomedical knowledge graphs, genomic models, psychiatric hospital data).

My work has received five best paper awards, appeared in top venues (e.g., ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, CHI, AAAI, WSDM, KDD, CACM, 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 2022 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 research vision and core work to date in a recent perspective paper on the cover of CACM and in these talks and interviews: