About

I am a CV Starr research scholar working at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute with Prof. Uri Hasson. Since 2022, I have led Princeton’s 1000 Days (1KD) project, a unique effort to uncover mechanisms that support human language acquisition in its full echological context.

The 1kD team has collected approximately 1.2 million hours of multidimensional, naturalistic data capturing children’s language exposure in their home environments across the first 1,000 days of life. Using AI-based infrastructure, we’ve extracted thousands of hours of speech and household activity per child, and we are now developing cognitively plausible models to study language learning in an ecologically realistic setting. My core question concerns the development of word meaning: how it is formed and shared, how it emerges in early life, and how it continues to change across a lifetime.

Previously, I completed my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Oren Kurland at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, and worked at IBM Research, Yahoo! Labs, and AI21 Labs on language processing and information retrieval technologies. I hold a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem through Talpiot elite training program, and an MSc in Physics from Tel Aviv University.