Curriculum Vitae

Education

2024-current
Postdoctoral Fellow at Genentech and Stanford University
2020-2024
Ph.D. in Computer Science, The Hebrew University
with distinction
2018-2020
M.Sc. in Physics, The Hebrew University
magna cum laude
2016-2018
B.Sc. double major in Physics and Computer Science, The Hebrew University
magna cum laude

Research Experience

2024-current
Genentech and Stanford University
Aviv Regev and Jure Leskovec
"Extending biological understanding through experimental-computational synergy"
2020-2024
Hebrew University, School of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Mor Nitzan
"Decoding cellular identities in single-cell data." Uncovering structure in complex biological systems using methods and ideas from Computer Science and Physics.
May 2023-September 2023
Apple ML Research, Paris
Prof. Marco Cuturi
"Contrasting Multiple Representations with the Multi-Marginal Matching Gap" Using tools from optimal transport theory to learn meaningful representations of objects seen through multiple views.
2018-2020
Hebrew University, Racah Institute
Prof. Naftali Tishby and Prof. Zohar Ringel
"The Dual Information Bottleneck" Suggesting a technique in Information Theory which incorporates Statistical Mechanics and Deep Learning.
October 2019
Harvard University, NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
Research as a Visiting Scholar.
2014-2017
Hebrew University, School of Computer Science and Engineering and Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences
Prof. Nir Friedman
Acquiring computational biology knowledge while performing big data analysis on biological data.

Awards and Honors

  • 2022-2024 Clore Scholarship for Ph.D students, The Clore Israel Foundation.
  • 2021-2024 Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in data-science, Israeli Council for Higher Education.
  • 2018-2020 Scholarship for master's degrees for outstanding women in Hi-Tech, Israeli Council for Higher Education.
  • 2017-2018 Computer Science Honors program for undergraduates, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • 2016-2018 Dean's Honors List, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Educational Work

  • 2020-2024 Co-leader of the "Physics & Computer Science undergraduate program" at the Hebrew University.
  • 2018-2024 Teacher assistant at the Hebrew University: "Computation and Physics Lab", "Mechanics for Bio-Medicine Students", "General Physics - Mechanics For Chemistry & Earth Students".
  • 2018-2024 Management of media channels of the Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University.

Presentations

Orals

  • July 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning 2024.
  • March 2023 Physics of Life 2023.
  • June 2022 Single Cell Biology 2022.

Invited talks

  • December 2025 The Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
  • July 2024 Stanford AI+Biomedicine Seminar, Stanford University, California, USA.
  • May 2024 Arjun Raj's Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
  • May 2024 Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, USA.
  • May 2024 Nir Yosef's Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
  • February 2024 Immunai Inc. Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • December 2023 Optimal Transport and Machine Learning workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, Virtual.
  • December 2023 Compugen Ltd, Holon, Israel.
  • April 2023 The Lander Lab, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.
  • February 2023 Shalev Itzkovitz's Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
  • November 2022 Super Group Meeting, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • October 2019 QBio group meeting, NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.