Graduate Student Seminar

10:30-11:00 Triplexis: Prediction of DNA Triplex Formation Using Deep Learning on Synthetic Libraries

• Matan Hoory
• Bloomfield 526

10:30-11:00 Hierarchical Task Networks as Social Laws

• Itay Bryt
• Cognitive Robotics Lab, Cooper Building

15:00-15:30 Neural Message Passing on Structural Interaction Graphs for Fully-Inductive Graph Neural Networks

• Omer Yom Tov
• Bloomfield 526

15:30-16:00 Prediction Optimization of Interrelated Time Series

• Omri Savir

14:00-14:30 GRD and the Other GRD: Goal Recognition Design for Guardrail Design

• Omer Belsky
• Bloomfield 526

13:30-14:00 An Embedding-space Aware Calibration Loss Function

• Idan Horowitz
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:30 Multimodal Entity Resolution

• Omer Rosenberg

09:30-10:00 Rag Performance Prediction in Question Answering

• Or Dado
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 6DoF Object Pose Estimation from Calibrated Multi-View Silhouettes

• Nitzan Ron
• Bloomfield 526

12:30-13:00 6D Dental Pose Estimation for AR-Assisted Craniofacial Surgery

• Tal Aloni
• Bloomfield 526

11:30-12:30 More Capacity, More Demand: MRI Planning with Fluid Models and Reinforcement Learning

• Or Kositsky
• Bloomfield 526

11:00-12:00 Researching Drug Addiction Through Naturally Generated Speech and Its Connection to Brain Activity

• Shani Pais
• Bloomfield 527

12:30-13:00 Physics-Informed Criticality Analysis for Infrastructure Networks

• Nurit Klimovitsky
• Water Research Institute Auditorium

13:00-13:30 Recovering Speech from Vibrations: Cross-Modal Distillation for Laser Transcription

• Emily Bederov
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:30 Multi View Anesthesia Identification in Operation Room Using Synthetic Data

• Daniel Yehezkel
• Bloomfield 526

16:00-16:30 Separating Signal from Noise: Denoised World Models for Generalization in Reinforcement Learning

• Eden Hindi
• Cognitive Robotics Lab, Cooper Building

12:30-13:00 Preference-based Conditional Treatment Effects and Policy Learning

• Dovid Parnas
• Bloomfield 526

14:00-15:00 Quality-Aware Ranking for Recommendation Systems

• Coral Scharf
• Taub 337

11:30-12:30 Super-Brownian Motion with Irregular Drift

• Johanna Weinberger
• Meyer, Room 861

12:30-13:00 Assessing Policy Updates: Toward Intelligent User Interfaces

• Matan-Itamar Solomon
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:30 Dynamic Guidance for Flow-Based Generation

• Avishag Nevo
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:45 CRIS: Cross-Plane Self-Supervised Isotropic Restoration for Multi-Modality Volumetric Imaging

• Adi Ahituv
• Conference Room, Floor -1 | MRI Center, MALAT Building

12:30-13:00 Joint Enhancement and Classification using Coupled Diffusion Models of Signals and Logits

• Gilad Nurko
• Bloomfield 526

15:00-16:00 Process Mining in Stochastic Settings

• Eli Bogdanov
• Bloomfield 526

12:30-13:00 Do Language Models Decide Like Us? Evidence from Biases in Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

• Gal Waisman
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:30 Online Robust Planning under Model Uncertainty: A Sample-Based Approach

• Tamir Shazman
• Bloomfield 526

09:30-10:30 The Agent Perspective In LLM-Based Strategic Information Retrieval Ecosystems

• Tommy Mordo
• Bloomfield 152

11:00-11:30 From Waitlists to Well-Being: An Analytical Approach to AI-Supported Mental Healthcare

• Noa-Fani Likvornik
• Bloomfield 526

16:30-17:30 Planning on Infinite Completion Trees Using Markovian Multi Armed Bandits

• Eyal Tadmor
• Bloomfield 151

13:00-13:30 The Martian Game: Exploring Open-Ended Question-Asking via an Online Gaming Environment

• Gili Cohen
• The Cognitive Complexity Lab, Lady Davis 106

11:00-11:30 Black-box ML models: Fit estimation and model selection

• Ido Botzer
• Bloomfield 527

09:00-09:30 Fine Tuning Dense Rankers Using Synthetic Data

• Ofir Azachi
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:30 An Unsupervised Framework to Decompose the Morphokinetic Behaviour of Cell Migration

• Lion Halika
• Taub 601

15:30-16:00 Dynamic Supply Chain Modeling: A Case Study of the Bioeconomy

• Dor Hertzenstein
• Eshkol Tower, 30th Floor, University of Haifa

15:15-16:15 The Impact of Annual Financial Report Announcements on Stock Implied Volatility: An Event Study Analysis

• Hen Trustianitser
• Eshkol Tower, 30th Floor, University of Haifa

13:00-13:30 A unifying framework for representing discrete distributions in continuous diffusion and flow models

• Ben Eliav
• Bloomfield 526

12:30-13:00 Focused Relevance Judgments Using Large Language Models and Their Application to Document Retrieval

• Eyal El-Ani
• Bloomfield 526

07:30-08:00 A machine learning approach to the morphology of human brain ventricles

• Kfir Eli Eliyahu
• Neuroradiology Unit, Rambam Medical Center

13:00-13:30 Maximum Likelihood Rules for Heterogeneous Voters

• Doron Kabla
• Bloomfield 527

12:30-12:30 The Search for Stability: Learning Dynamics of Strategic Publishers

• Itamar-Jakob Reinman
• Bloomfield 527

13:30-14:00 Self-Stabilizing Algorithms in the Uniform Port Model

• TDC Seminar
• Liam Brinker
• Taub 601

13:00-13:30 Self-Paced (Asynchronous) BCI

• Tohar-Shoshana Rotem-Gal-Oz
• Blommfield 527

12:30-13:00 Characterizing Harmful Inputs in Neural Retrieval: From Query Tokens to Relevant Feedback Documents

• Moriya Menachem
• Bloomfield 527

13:00-13:30 Silenced Biases: The Dark Side LLMs Learned to Refuse

• Rom Himelstein
• Bloomfield 527

13:30-14:00 Communication-Efficient and Fast Local Symmetry Breaking

• TDC Seminar
• Yarden Adi
• Meyer 1061

12:30-13:00 R&D Investment in Times of Crisis: The Enabling Role of Operational Excellence

• Ori David
• Bloomfield 527

12:30-13:00 Selective Perception under Active Resource management for Reinforcement Learning

• Ofek Glick
• Bloomfield 527

13:00-13:30 Latent Distance Alignment in Large Language Models as World Models

• Eliezer Shlomi
• Bloomfield 527

10:30-11:00 Strategic Content Creation in the Age of GenAI: To Share or Not to Share?

• Gur Keinan
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:30 Displacement-Resistant Extensions of DPO with Nonconvex f-Divergences

• Idan Pipano
• Bloomfield 527

11:00-11:30 Liberating from Correlations: An Interventional Benchmark for Concept-Based Explanations

• Gilat Toker
• Bloomfield 527

11:00-11:30 The Phenomenon of Non Standard Employment in Israel

• Reayah Engle
• Haifa University, Room 7052

11:30-12:30 From Prediction to Intervention: Causal Inference in Time-to-Event and Time-Series Data

• Tomer Meir
• Bloomfield 113

10:00-10:30 Modeling Time Series Regression with Multiple Disruption Events

• Naomi Derel
• Statistics Lab, Cooper Building 2ed Floor

17:00-18:00 From Euler to AI: Unifying Formulas for Mathematical Constants

• Tomer Raz
• ZOOM

12:00-13:00 Gaussian See, Gaussian Do: Semantic 3D Motion Transfer from Multiview Video

• Yarin Bekor
• Taub 401

10:30-11:00 Age and Creativity: Exploring the Ability to Break Creative Impasse and How Age Affects this Ability

• Ekaterina Superfin
• The Cognitive Complexity Lab, Lady Davis, Room 106

11:00-11:30 Predicting and Analyzing High-Level Cognitive Traits Using Computational Multiplex Networks and Vector Representations

• Ofir Ganor
• The Cognitive Complexity Lab, Lady Davis, Room 106

13:00-13:30 Using Large Language Models to Predict Human Choice from Textual Description

• Eyal Marantz
• Bloomfield, Room 112

09:00-09:30 Surgical Ergonomics in Simulation: A Motion-Sensor–Based Study

• Lama Wattad
• Zoom

16:00-16:30 Exploring in the Dark: Pure Exploration for POMDPs

• Yonatan Ashlag
• Zissapel 506

11:00-12:00 Bridging Online Behavior and Clinical Insight: A Longitudinal LLM-based Study of Suicidality on YouTube Reveals Novel Digital Markers

• Ilanit Sobol
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-14:00 Hands-On AI: Robust Hands Detection and Explainable Assessment of Surgical Suturing Using 3D Hands Reconstruction

• Roi Papo
• Scalpel lab, Lady Davis, 0 floor, room 105

13:00-13:30 Between the Layers Lies the Truth: Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs using Intra-Layer Local Information Scores

• Zvi Badash
• BME 201, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering

11:45-12:15 Context Assisted Matching

• Noam Zel
• Taub 337

11:15-12:00 CoWWLa-EM: Confidence Weighting of Weakly Labelled data for Entity Matching

• Yair Zissu
• Taub 337

10:00-11:00 Graph Representation Learning for Data Betterment

• Bar Genossar
• Taub 337

09:00-09:30 Contrastive Learning for Multi-Modal Medical Imaging

• Eyal Finkelshtein
• Bloomfield 526

11:30-12:30 Uniqueness and Longtime Behavior of the Completely Positively Correlated Symbiotic Branching Model

• Eran Avneri
• Meyer 861

13:00-13:30 Influence of the present bias in making purchase decisions

• Hila Brameli
• Bloomfield 424

11:00-11:45 Liberty: an Interventional Benchmark for Concept-Based Explanation Methods in NLP

• Gilat Toker
• Bloomfield 526

11:00-11:30 Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Learning Shadow Variables in Combinatorial Optimization Problems

• Ariel Abramowitz
• Zoom

12:30-13:00 How do financial crises affect economic perceptions? The 2008 financial crisis as a Case Study

• Ella Yakov
• Bloomfield 424 and Zoom

13:00-13:30 Multi-Cohort Framework with Cohort-Aware Attention and Adversarial Mutual-Information Minimization for Whole Slide Image Classification

• Sharon Peled
• Bloomfield 424 and Zoom

12:30-13:00 Blackwell’s Approachability with Approximation Algorithms

• Mhna Massalha
• ZOOM

12:30-13:00 Finding minimal separators with small cardinality in graphs

• Einan Regev
• Bloomfield 424

11:00-12:00 Fine-Grained Factual Inconsistency Detection: Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models

• Yehonatan Peisakhovsky
• Bloomfield 526

12:30-13:00 Efficient Learning on Large Graphs using a Densifying Regularity Lemma

• Jonathan Kouchly
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 Deep Learning for approximating solutions to hard computational problems indirectly

• Yuval Kaner
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 On the Merits of LLM-Based Corpus Enrichment

• Gal Zur
• Zoom

12:30-13:00 Enumeration of Minimal Hitting Sets on Bounded Treewidth Hypergraphs: From Theory to Practice

• Dan Mizrahi
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 6D Dental Pose Estimation for AR-Assisted Craniofacial Surgery

• Dolev Chen
• SCALPEL Lab, 1st Floor, Lady Davis Building

11:00-11:30 Enhancing Open-Surgery Gesture Recognition Using 3D Pose Estimation

• Ori Meiraz
• Lady Davis 105

08:30-09:00 Predicting RAG Performance for Text Completion

• Oz Huly
• Zoom

09:00-09:30 Multimodal Emotion Diarization: Frame-Wise Integration of Text and Audio Representations

• Ziv Tamir
• Zoom

09:30-10:00 Query reduction and old retrieval methods meet RAG

• Idan Pogrebinsky
• Zoom

12:30-13:00 GNN-based text representations for Style-focused Personalized LLM’s

• Omer Vered
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 Analysis of the Randomized Hadamard Transform

• Tomer Zilca
• Bloomfield 526

12:00-12:30 Trap Sampling with Applications in DoS Attack Detection

• Ilai Avni
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:30 AI-Driven Research and Trait Aware Representations of Medical Diagnostics

• Tal Ifargan
• Auditorium, Faculty of Biology

11:00-11:30 Towards Hybrid Traffic Laws for Mixed Flow of Human-driven Vehicles and Connected Autonomous Vehicles

• Tal Kraicer
• Cooper 300

14:00-14:30 Unsupervised Translation of Emergent Communication

• Ido Levy
• Taub 601

10:00-10:30 Analyzing semantic dynamics in a quest for truth discovery

• Olga Light
• Lib 3 - Library

11:30-12:00 Coordinate Flow for Implicit Neural Representation Video Compression

• Daniel Silver
• Taub 601

12:30-13:00 Typical Interpolating Neural Nets Generalize Well and Exhibit Tempered Overfitting with Narrow Teachers

• Itamar Harel
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 Prompt-driven llm-agents for content modification in ranking competitions

• Niv Bardas
• Zoom

09:00-10:00 Startup Portfolio Management

• Denis Solan
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 First-Order Methods for Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization

• Ido Iutcu
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 Algorithms for Structured Simple Bilevel Problems

• Daniel Engel
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 The Power of Letting Go: Scheduling, Rejections and Controlled Abandonments in Multi-Server Queues

• Arsenii Shmelev
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:30 Towards Transforming Free Natural Language Text to Conceptual Models with Generative AI

• Yuliya Saksonski
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 Computational Modeling of Eye Movements in Reading Across Multiple Regimes – Theory and Practice

• Yoav Meiri
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 SLACE: A Monotone and Balance-Sensitive Loss Function for Ordinal Regression

• Inbar Nachmani
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 Decoding Reading Goals from Eye Movements

• Kfir Hadar
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-14:00 Enhancing User Understanding of Reinforcement Learning Agents Through Visual Explanations

• Yotam Amitai
• Zoom