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I am a Computer Science PhD candidate (direct track) at The Hebrew University ๐ฎ๐ฑ, 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 ๐ฆ๐บ, I worked with other students on my first research projects in AI and ML. During my MSc at The Technical University of Munich ๐ฉ๐ช, 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
Nov 24: Traveled to Miami to present a paper in the main conference (industry track) of EMNLP 2024 โ๏ธ๐
Oct 24: New paper accepted to EMNLP 2024 (main conference, industry track): Visual Editing with LLM-based Tool Chaining: An Efficient Distillation Approach for Real-Time Applications ๐๐บ๐ธ
Aug 24: Won the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) Fellowship of the Council for Higher Education (CHE) for outstanding PhD candidates in the fields of AI and Data Science in Israel ๐
Jun 24: Traveled to Mexico City to present a paper in the main conference of NAACL 2024 โ๏ธ๐
Mar 24: New long paper accepted to NAACL 2024 (main conference): ParallelPARC: A Scalable Pipeline for Generating Natural-Language Analogies ๐๐ฒ๐ฝ
Mar 24: Converted to (part-time) position as an AI Researcher at Lightricks ๐
Sep 23: Started a new (full-time summer intern) position as an AI Researcher at Lightricks ๐
Jun 23: Selected to deliver the graduation speech in the Computer Science MSc graduation ceremony at The Hebrew University ๐๐๐
Mar 23: Invited talk in SheffieldNLP group at The University of Sheffield ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ง
Mar 23: Visiting Researcher at The University of Surrey & The University of Sheffield. Hosts: Prof. Chenghua Lin and Prof. Frank Guerin ๐ฌ๐ง
Jan 23: Invited talk in BIU-NLP group at Bar Ilan University ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ
Jan 23: Started my PhD (direct track) in Computer Science at The Hebrew University, grateful to be advised by Prof. Dafna Shahaf ๐ฎ๐ฑ
Dec 22: Traveled to Abu Dhabi to present two papers in the main conference of EMNLP 2022 โ๏ธ๐๐
Dec 22: New short paper: From Judgementโs Premises Towards Key Points ๐
Oct 22: 2/2 long papers accepted to EMNLP 2022 (main conference): Life is a Circus and We are the Clowns: Automatically Finding Analogies between Situations and Processes and Breakpoint Transformers for Modeling and Tracking Intermediate Beliefs ๐๐
Apr 22: Relocated to Munich for MSc exchange program with Erasmus+ scholarship at The Technical University of Munich ๐ฉ๐ช
Dec 21: Joined the Hyadata Lab (Prof. Dafna Shahaf) at The Hebrew University ๐ฎ๐ฑ
Oct 20: Started MSc in Computer Science at The Hebrew University ๐ฎ๐ฑ
May 19: Graduated BSc in Computer Science (magna cum laude) from The Hebrew University ๐๐
Feb 18: Relocated to Melbourne for BSc exchange program with scholarship at The University of Melbourne ๐ฆ๐บ
Oct 15: Started BSc in Computer Science at The Hebrew University ๐ฎ๐ฑ
Fine-Tuning Session 2 -- Real use-case from Lightricks
AI course, Lightricks, Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ (Sep 2023).
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Fine-Tuning Large Language Models (LLMs)
AI course, Lightricks, Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ (Sep 2023).
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Automatically Finding Analogies between Situations and Processes
MSc graduation ceremony, The Hebrew University, Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ (June 2023).
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Analogies of Situations and Processes: Detection, Explanation, Generation
SheffieldNLP, The University of Sheffield, UK ๐ฌ๐ง (March 2023).
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Using LLMs for Natural-Language Analogies Generation
BIU-NLP, Bar Ilan University, Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ (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 ๐ฎ๐ฑ (Jan 2023).
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Breakpoint Transformers for Modeling and Tracking Intermediate Beliefs
Aristo team, Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Seattle, USA ๐บ๐ธ (Jan 2023).
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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).
Mar 23 - present: Teaching the course self-paced introduction to data science (67876) intended for graduate students from different research areas, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Data-Science Research (CIDR), The Hebrew University.