profile
I am a Distinguished Engineer (DE) at IBM Research AI and the founder and Principal Investigator of Project Debater. Before that I was an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, and even before that, I did my PhD at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I am interested in Computational Argumentation, and more broadly in how to utilize Language Models *in practice*, to address various forms of text classification problems, and beyond.
Academic Activities
- Co-organizer of ACL and IJCAI 2021 tutorials on Advances in Debating Technologies: Building AI That Can Debate Humans
- EMNLP 2019 Keynote talk on Project Debater
- Co-chair of 5th Argument Mining workshop at EMNLP 2018
- Co-organizer of 4th Argument Mining workshop at EMNLP 2017
- Co-organizer of ACL 2016 tutorial on NLP Approaches to Computational Argumentation
- Co-organizer of Dagstuhl Workshop on Debating Technologies
- Served as reviewer for Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
- Served as reviewer for the following conferences: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, SIGIR, ECIR, NIPS, ICML, UAI, IJCAI, AISTAT
- Served as reviewer for the following journals:
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
- Machine Learning Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- The Entropy Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
- ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
- International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI)
- Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- Information Processing and Management (IPM)
- The Information Retrieval Journal
- PLoS Computational Biology
- Journal of Biomedical Informatics