CV

Education

2012 - 2018 Information Retrieval, PhD
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Thesis: Entity-based retrieval. Carried out under the supervision of Prof. Oren Kurland.

2004 - 2009 Physics, MSc (Magna Cum Laude)
Tel-Aviv university, Tel-Aviv
Thesis: Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy (DART): Comparative study of different experimental models of treated solid tumors. Carried out under the supervision of Prof. Itzhak Kelson and Prof. Yona Keisari.

2000 - 2003 Physics and Mathematics, BSc
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem

Work History

07/2022 - Present - 1kD Project Lead, Postdoc, Hasson Lab
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Leading the development of a cloud-based system for collecting large-scale naturalistic, multimodal data of children’s exposure to language.
Developing novel deep learning models aimed at elucidating the intricacies of the language acquisition process.

02/2022 - 07/2022 AI & Machine Learning Consultant
Freelance, Tel-Aviv
Offered expert advice and hands on assistance in integrating sophisticated AI technologies into large-scale big data systems.

11/2018 - 06/2021 Senior Data Scientist
AI21 Labs, Tel-Aviv
Designed algorithms to address product-related natural language processing (NLP) challenges.
Explored user data to gain insights about product metrics.
Developed various methods for collecting human annotations at scale.

04/2018 - 09/2018 Co-founder & CTO
DocuTalk, Tel-Aviv
Evaluated NLP technologies for an early stage startup aimed at facilitating medical documentation.

07/2014 - 11/2014 Research Intern
YAHOO! Research Labs, Haifa
Worked on a research project focused on mining intents in community question answering sites, under the supervision of Dr. David Carmel and Dr. Idan Szpektor.

05/2011 - 04/2012 Research Intern
IBM Research Labs, Haifa
Developed entity ranking algorithms under the supervision of Dr. David Carmel.

01/2009 - 11/2010 Machine Learning Team Lead
Directed two machine learning research groups focused on projects within the realms of data mining and text analysis.

01/2007 - 12/2008 Machine Learning Researcher
Leveraged machine learning techniques and visualization approaches to address complex business challenges.

11/2003 - 12/2006 Analyst
Technological research unit

Conference Talks

10/2023 - New Methods for Modeling Child-Caregiver Interactions, Princeton University (oral)
Harnessing real world data to model the complexity of language acquisition.

03/2020 - Women in Data Science, Tel Aviv, Israel (oral)
Utilizing Human Annotations for Complex Evaluation Tasks.

07/2016 - SIGIR, Pisa, Italy (oral)
Document Retrieval Using Entity-Based Language Models. Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland and David Carmel.

07/2014 - SIGIR, Gold Coast, Australia (poster)
Query performance prediction for entity retrieval. Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland and David Carmel.

07/2014 - Doctoral Consortium, SIGIR, Gold Coast, Australia (oral)
Entity-based Retrieval. Hadas Raviv.

07/2013 - SIGIR, Dublin, Ireland (poster)
The cluster hypothesis for entity oriented search. Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland and David Carmel.

02/2009 - The Meeting of the Israeli Society for Cancer Research, Tel- Aviv, Israel (poster)
Comparative study of the spread of 224-Ra progeny atoms and local tumor control in different experimental models of solid tumors treated by Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy (DART). Hadas Bittan (Raviv), Tomer Cooks, Galit Horev, Margalit Efrati, Lior Arazi, Michael Schmidt, Sefi Raab and Yona Keisari.

Professional Activity

08/2021 - 08/2022 Co-founder, NLP-IL Journal Club
Was accountable for event coordination, fostering community involvement and giving paper presentations.
Presentation delivered: The Power of Scale for Parameter-Efficient Prompt Tunning. Videos of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel.

Program Committee Member (reviewer)
ACL industry track, 2023
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2016 - 2017
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2017
The Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval, Analysis, and Understanding (KG4IR), 2017- 2018.

6/2023 - Transformers podcast interview: AI, education and learning.

Teaching

2015 - Teaching Assistant, Advanced Information Retrieval
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Provided assistance to students in developing project concepts and executing their implementations.

2013 - Teaching Assistant, Information Retrieval
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Taught frontal sessions. Wrote and graded homework assignments.

Volunteering

2018 - Present - Organizer and Developer of Educational Enrichment Programs
Hour of Code, Machine Learning for Kids, Inclusion and Democracy. See more details here.

12/2021 - 02/2022 - Mentor, Women in Data Science, Israel

12/2016 - 07/2018 - Co-founder and Community Leader & Speaker, Women Techmakers Israel
Co-established a community dedicated to enhancing the representation of women in STEM.
Planned and coordinated events focused on soft skills and professional development.
Developed and participated as a mentor in a peer mentoring program.
Presentations Delivered: Demystifying AI and Exploring Strategies for Achieving Work-Life Balance. Our Facebook page.