I’m a PhD candidate in a joint Phd program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne, advised by Prof. Omri Abend, Dr. Gabriel Stanovsky and Dr. Lea Frermann. Before that, I did my MSc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem working with Prof. Ari Rappoport on Spiking Neural Networks. You can download my CV here.

I am interested in learning in non–text-only environments, particularly those involving multimodality or interactivity. Most of my PhD focused on multimodal learning, specifically on understanding why the outputs of Vision–Language Models often differ from those of humans, by examining both the underlying learning mechanisms and the factors that influence behavior in models and people. More recently, I have been exploring interactive learning settings, especially text-based games, investigating whether and how models can learn to play them and how such learning shapes their behavior. In particular, I am interested in deceptive games such as Mafia.

I also love traveling and hiking.

News

• January 6, 2026: I’ll be visiting London and Edinburgh at the end of January and will be giving a talk in Frank Keller’s group on January 30. If you’re in the UK around then, reach out and let’s meet!
• December 18, 2025: Attended ISCOL 2025 and presented our cross cultural paper and mafia paper.
• November 5, 2025: Attended EMNLP 2025 and gave an oral presentation of our TACL paper surveying image captioning evaluation methods (you can find the recording here).
• May 1, 2025: Attended NAACL 2025 and gave an oral presentation of our cross cultural paper (you can find the recording here).
• February 1, 2025: Started a new position as an applied science intern at Amazon.