2012 - 2018 Information Retrieval, PhD
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Thesis: Entity-based retrieval. Supervised by
Prof. Oren Kurland.
2004 - 2009 Physics, MSc (Magna Cum Laude)
Tel-Aviv university, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Thesis: Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy (DART): Comparative study of different experimental models of treated solid tumors.
Supervised by Prof. Itzhak Kelson and
Prof. Yona Keisari.
2000 - 2003 Physics and Mathematics, BSc
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Talpiot elite officer's training program, Jerusalem, Israel.
07/2022 - Present - 1kD Project Lead.
Hasson Lab, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, New Jersey
07/2025 - Present - Research Scholar
07/2022 - 07/2025 - Senior Software Engineer
Led the development of a cloud-based system for ultra-dense naturalistic data collection.
Developing cognitively plausible mechanistic models that imitate individual infants' language learning behaviors.
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 various product-related natural language processing (NLP) challenges.
Explored user data to gain insights about product metrics.
Developed novel 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 mining intents in community question answering sites. Supervised by
Dr. David Carmel and
Dr. Idan Szpektor.
05/2011 - 04/2012 Research Intern
IBM Research Labs, Haifa
Developed entity ranking algorithms. Supervised by
Dr. David Carmel.
01/2009 - 11/2010 Machine Learning Team Lead
Managed two machine-learning research groups, leading projects in 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
The First 1,000 Days (1kD) Project: Collecting and Analyzing an Ultra-Dense Naturalistic Dataset of Infant Development (Invited Community Talk, Virtual).
Hadas Raviv
DARCLE: Daylong Audio Recordings of Children's Linguistic Environments, Zoom Meeting, Dec 2025.
The First 1000 Days Project (Conference Symposia)
Hadas Raviv, Brooke Ryan, Liat Hasenfratz, Casey Lew-Williams, and Uri Hasson
The 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston USA, Nov 2025.
The First 1000 Days: Creating Cloud-Based Systems for Collecting and Analyzing a Big Naturalistic Dataset to Study Human Development (Conference Research Presentation)
Hadas Raviv, Liat Hasenfratz, Irene Kopaliani, and Uri Hasson
2025 Higher Education Cloud Forum, New York USA, May 2025.
Modeling the Acquisition of Languages using Naturalistic Data (Workshop Lightning Talk).
Hadas Raviv
Artificial Intelligence in Collectives Workshop, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA, Dec 2024.
Harnessing Real-World Data to Model the Complexity of Language Acquisition (Workshop Invited Talk).
Hadas Raviv
The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: The First Workshop on NLP for Science, Miami, USA, Nov 2024.
The First 1,000 days: Harnessing Real-World Data to Model the Complexity of Language Acquisition (Research Seminar Invited Talk).
Hadas Raviv
Developmental Research Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA, Nov 2024.
Harnessing Real-World Data to Model the Complexity of Language Acquisition (Institute Meeting Talk).
Hadas Raviv
Princeton Neuroscience Institute annual meeting, New Jersey, USA, May 2024.
Harnessing Real-World Data to Model the Complexity of Language Acquisition (Symposium Invited Talk).
Hadas Raviv
AI, speech and language science, 3rd BRAIN research cluster symposium, Hong Kong (Remote), May 2024.
Harnessing Real-World Data to Model the Complexity of Language Acquisition (Workshop Invited Talk) .
Hadas Raviv
New Methods for Modeling Child-Caregiver Interactions, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA, Oct 2023.
Utilizing Human Annotations for Complex Evaluation Tasks (Conference Lightning Talk).
Hadas Raviv
Women in Data Science, Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb 2020.
Document Retrieval Using Entity-Based Language Models (Conference Talk).
Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland, David Carmel.
The 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, July 2016.
Query Performance Prediction for Entity Retrieval (Conference Poster).
Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland, David Carmel.
The 37th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014.
Entity-based Retrieval (Conference Doctoral Consortium).
Hadas Raviv.
The 37th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014.
The Cluster Hypothesis for Entity-oriented Search (Conference Poster).
Hadas Raviv Oren Kurland, David Carmel.
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, Dublin, Ireland, July 2013.
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) (Conference Poster).
Hadas Bittan (Raviv), Tomer Cooks, Galit Horev, Margalit Efrati, Lior Arazi, Michael Schmidt, Sefi Raab, and Yona Keisari.
The Meeting of the Israeli Society for Cancer Research, Tel Aviv, Israel, February 2009.
Exemplar Guided Active Learning (PDF)
Jason S. Hartford, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Hadas Raviv, Dan Padnos, Shahar Lev, Barak Lenz
NIPS '20: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Document Retrieval Using Entity-Based Language Models (PDF)
Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland, David Carmel
SIGIR '16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
Query Performance Prediction for Entity Retrieval (PDF)
Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland, David Carmel
SIGIR '14: Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval.
Entity-Based Retrieval (PDF)
Hadas Raviv
SIGIR '14: Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval.
The Cluster Hypothesis for Entity Oriented Search (PDF)
Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland, David Carmel
SIGIR '13: Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval.
A Ranking Framework for Entity Oriented Search Using Markov Random Fields (PDF)
Hadas Raviv, Oren Kurland, David Carmel
JIWES '12: Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Workshop on Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search.
Local Control of Experimental Malignant Pancreatic Tumors by Treatment with a Combination of Chemotherapy and Intratumoral 224Radium-Loaded Wires Releasing Alpha-Emitting Atoms (PDF)
Galit Horev-Drori, Tomer Cooks, Hadas Bittan (Raviv), Elinor Lazarov, Michael Schmidt, Lior Arazi, Margalit Efrati, Itzhak Kelson, Yona Keisari
Translational Research, 2012.
Local Control of Lung Derived Tumors by Diffusing Alpha-Emitting Atoms Released From Intratumoral Wires Loaded With Radium-224 (PDF)
Tomer Cooks, Michael Schmidt, Hadas Bittan (Raviv), Elinor Lazarov, Lior Arazi, Itzhak Kelson, Yona Keisari
International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics (IJROBP), 2009.
Tumor Growth Inhibition and Necrosis Following Treatment of Experimental Solid Malignant Tumors by Intra-Tumoral Ra-224 Loaded Sources (PDF)
Yona Keisari, Tomer Cooks, Hadas Bittan (Raviv), Elinor Lazarov, Shira Reitkopf, Galit Horev, Lior Arazi, Revital Etzyoni, Michael Schmidt, Itzhak Kelson
European Journal of Cancer Supplements, 2009.
Growth Retardation and Survival Prolongation of Experimental Lung Carcinoma By Interstitial Ra-224 Loaded Wires Releasing Diffusing Alpha-Emitting Atoms (PDF)
Tomer Cooks, Margalit Efrati, Hadas Bittan (Raviv), Michael Schmidt, Lior Arazi, Itzhak Kelson, Yona Keisari
European Journal of Cancer Supplements, 2008.
7/1/25-7/1/28 - CV Starr Fellowship, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University.
2016 - ACM-W scholarship award.
2016 - Travel Grant, Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR).
T2014 - The Irwin and Joan Jacobs scholarship award, Technion.
2014 - Travel Grant, Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR).
2013 - Travel Grant, Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR).
09/2025 - Adivsory Board Member Scaling Success - New Jesey Families Study: advising on the use of AI tools for coding in-home interactions.
Program Committee Member (reviewer)
EMNLP industry track, 2024
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.
06/2023 - Transformers podcast interview: AI, education and learning
08/2021 - 08/2022 Co-founder, NLP-IL Journal Club
Responsible for event coordination, fostering community involvement, and presenting research work.
Presented: The Power of Scale for Parameter-Efficient Prompt Tuning.
Videos of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel.
2015 - Teaching Assistant, Advanced Information Retrieval
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Assisted students in formulating project ideas and successfully bringing their implementations to completion.
2013 - Teaching Assistant, Information Retrieval
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Taught frontal sessions. Wrote and graded homework assignments.
2018 - 2022 - Educational Enrichment Program Developer & Organizer
Hour of Code, Machine Learning for Kids, Critical thinking.
12/2021 - 02/2022 - Mentor, Women in Data Science, Israel
12/2016 - 07/2018 - Co-founder and Community Leader & Speaker, Women Techmakers Israel
Co-founded a community advancing women’s representation in STEM.
Organized and led events centered on soft skills and career development (presented: Exploring Strategies for Achieving Work-Life Balance).
Co-developed and mentored in a peer mentoring program.
Organized and led technology-focused events, including an AI workshop series (presented: Demystifying AI).
Our Facebook page.