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Oren Sultan

Computer Science PhD Candidate

The Hebrew University

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I am a Computer Science PhD candidate (direct track) at The Hebrew University ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, grateful to be advised by Prof. Dafna Shahaf. I also work part-time as an AI Researcher at Lightricks, and as a TA for Data Science under the CIDR (Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research). My research lies at the intersection of AI (ML and NLP) and Cognitive Science. I enjoy investigating realms where human intelligence outperforms current AI models, aiming to devise methods that emulate these capabilities and close the gap. My prior work has primarily been in computational analogy, where I developed methods to identify, explain, and generate analogies across natural language paragraphs describing processes or situations. Currently, my goal is to empower AI with analogical reasoning capabilities in mathematics, aiming to enhance the automatic generation and verification of mathematical theorem proving. My research is generously supported by the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) Fellowship of the Council for Higher Education (CHE) for outstanding PhD candidates in AI and Data Science in Israel.

I completed both my MSc and BSc in computer science at The Hebrew University (magna cum laude) and participated in two semester-long exchange programs with scholarships for honors students. During my BSc at The University of Melbourne ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ, I worked with other students on my first research projects in AI and ML. During my MSc at The Technical University of Munich ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช, I participated in a NLP Lab course and worked with other MSc students on a research project under Prof. Georg Groh. Furthermore, I graduated from The Israeli Intelligence Corps (Unit 8200) as an officer (Captain), where I founded and led tech teams of data engineers with honors. During my reserve duty, I co-founded and led special forces of researchers and data scientists in NLP and IR. I also have gained an experience from various roles in industry, from data and software engineering to consulting.

Email: oren.sultan (at) mail.huji.ac.il

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๐Ÿ“„ Publications

Visual Editing with LLM-based Tool Chaining: An Efficient Distillation Approach for Real-Time Applications
ParallelPARC: A Scalable Pipeline for Generating Natural-Language Analogies
Life is a Circus and We are the Clowns: Automatically Finding Analogies between Situations and Processes
Breakpoint Transformers for Modeling and Tracking Intermediate Beliefs
From Judgement's Premises Towards Key Points

๐Ÿ’ฌ Selected Talks

  • Fine-Tuning Session 2 -- Real use-case from Lightricks
    AI course, Lightricks, Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ (Sep 2023).
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  • Fine-Tuning Large Language Models (LLMs)
    AI course, Lightricks, Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ (Sep 2023).
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  • Automatically Finding Analogies between Situations and Processes
    MSc graduation ceremony, The Hebrew University, Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ (June 2023).
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  • Analogies of Situations and Processes: Detection, Explanation, Generation
    SheffieldNLP, The University of Sheffield, UK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง (March 2023).
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  • Using LLMs for Natural-Language Analogies Generation
    BIU-NLP, Bar Ilan University, Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ (Jan 2023).
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  • Life is a Circus and We are the Clowns: Automatically Finding Analogies between Situations and Processes
    The Hebrew University, Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ (Jan 2023).
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  • Breakpoint Transformers for Modeling and Tracking Intermediate Beliefs
    Aristo team, Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Seattle, USA ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ (Jan 2023).
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๐Ÿ† Notable Awards

  • 2024: 3-year Fellowship for outstanding PhD candidates in AI and Data Science (360K NIS), The Planning & Budgeting Committee (PBC) of Council For Higher Education (CHE), Israel.

  • 2022: Erasmus+ Scholarship for honors students, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

  • 2019: B.Sc in Computer Science โ€“ Magna Cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

  • 2018: Scholarship for honors students, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

  • 2013: Annual Excellence Tech Project Award, The Israeli Intelligence Corps, Commander of Unit 8200 (rank: Brigadier general).

  • 2012: Annual Excellence Team Award, The Israeli Intelligence Corps, Commander of R&D, Unit 8200 (rank: Colonel).

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