2012 – 2018
Information Retrieval, PhD
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Thesis: Entity-based Retrieval.
Supervised by Prof. Oren Kurland.
Hadas Raviv, PhD
Research Scholar, CV Starr Fellow, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University.
Education
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, Jerusalem, Israel
Work History
2022 – present
Research Scholar, CV Starr Fellow, 1kD Project Scientific Lead
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
07/2025 – present: Research Scholar
07/2022 – 07/2025: Senior Software Engineer
- Led the development of a cloud-based platform for ultra-dense naturalistic data collection, coordinating cross-functional teams across engineering, DevOps, research, and data annotation.
- Developing cognitively plausible mechanistic models of language acquisition that learn from individual children's naturalistic experiences and reproduce their developmental trajectories.
- Serving as Scientific Lead of the 1kD Archive.
2022
AI & Machine Learning Consultant
Freelance, Tel Aviv, Israel
Offered expert advice and hands-on assistance in integrating AI technologies into large-scale big data systems.
2018 – 2021
Senior Data Scientist
AI21 Labs, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Developed algorithms for addressing product-related natural language processing (NLP) challenges.
- Analyzed user data to optimize product metrics.
- Developed novel methods for collecting human annotations at scale.
2018
Co-founder & CTO
DocuTalk, Tel Aviv, Israel
Evaluated NLP technologies for an early stage startup aimed at facilitating medical documentation.
2014
Research Intern
Yahoo! Research Labs, Haifa, Israel
Worked on mining user intents in community question-answering sites.
Supervised by Dr. David Carmel and Dr. Idan
Szpector.
2011
Research Intern
IBM Research Labs, Haifa, Israel
Developed entity-based search algorithms.
Supervised by Dr. David Carmel.
2009 – 2010
Machine Learning Team Leader
2007 – 2008
Machine Learning Researcher
2003 – 2006
Analyst
Teaching
2026
Guest lecture — Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (502B). Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, USA.
2015
Teaching Assistant — Advanced Information Retrieval Technion, Haifa, Israel
2013
Teaching Assistant — Information Retrieval Technion, Haifa, Israel
Academic Service
2026
Ad hoc reviewer, Behavior Research Methods.
2025
Research Advisor, New Jersey Families Project. Advised on data curation.
2016 – 2024
Program Committee Member (Reviewer) WWW 2016–17 · SIGIR 2017 · CIKM 2017 · KG4IR 2017–18 · ACL Industry Track 2023 · EMNLP Industry Track 2024
Outreach & Education
2023
Invited Guest, Transformers Podcast. Interview on AI and education.
2021 – 2022
Co-founder, NLP-IL Journal Club, Israel.
2021 – 2022
Mentor, Women in Data Science, Israel.
2019, 2021
Educational events organizer — Hour of Code, ML for Kids, Critical Thinking.
2016 – 2018
Co-founder, Community Leader and Speaker, Women Techmakers, Israel. Organized and led technical events, career-development workshops, and professional networking activities. Co-developed a peer-mentoring program.
Awards
2026
Sagol prize for academic excellence, Psychology Mind-IL Conference.
2025
CV Starr Fellowship, Princeton Neuroscience Institute.
2016
ACM-W Scholarship Award.
2016
Travel Grant — ACM SIGIR 2016.
2014
The Irwin and Joan Jacobs Scholarship Award, Technion.
2014
Travel Grant — ACM SIGIR 2014.
2013
Travel Grant — ACM SIGIR 2013.