Research Scientist at Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)·PhD Candidate in Computer Science at The Hebrew University
I work on challenging reasoning problems that require abstraction and structure — augmenting large language models with symbolic algorithms to combine the best of both worlds.
oren.sultan (at) mail.huji.ac.il
I am an AI Research Scientist at Meta, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), working on code reasoning, understanding and generation as part of the CodeGen team. I am also a Computer Science PhD candidate (direct track) at The Hebrew University, grateful to be advised by Prof. Dafna Shahaf. My research focuses on challenging reasoning problems that require abstraction and structure — areas where current large language models still struggle. I believe that neuro-symbolic approaches, which augment LLMs with symbolic algorithms, are a promising direction, combining the best of both worlds.
Previously, I worked as an AI Researcher at Lightricks, and as a TA for Data Science under the CIDR (Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research). My PhD research is generously funded 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 exchange programs with scholarships for honors students: during my BSc at The University of Melbourne, and during my MSc at The Technical University of Munich. 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. I have also gained experience from various roles in industry, from data and software engineering to consulting.
Mar 26: Continuing as a part-time Research Scientist (contract) at Meta, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) 🎉
Dec 25: Attended ISCOL 2025 to present "A Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Reliable Proof Generation with LLMs: A Case Study in Euclidean Geometry" 🎉🇮🇱
Sep 25: New paper: CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models 🎉
Jul 25: Started a new position as a Research Scientist Intern at Meta, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) 🎉
Apr 25: Invited talk in Nvidia & NLP IL Meetup 💬🇮🇱
Nov 24: Traveled to Miami to present a paper in the main conference (industry track) of EMNLP 2024 ✈️🗞
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 🎉🇺🇸
Sep 24: Attended ISCOL 2024 to present "ParallelPARC: A Scalable Pipeline for Generating Natural-Language Analogies" 🎉🇮🇱
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 🎉
Jun 24: Traveled to Mexico City to present a paper in the main conference of NAACL 2024 ✈️🗞
Mar 24: New long paper accepted to NAACL 2024 (main conference): ParallelPARC: A Scalable Pipeline for Generating Natural-Language Analogies 🎉🇲🇽
Mar 24: Converted to (part-time) position as an AI Researcher at Lightricks 🎉
Sep 23: Started a new (full-time summer intern) position as an AI Researcher at Lightricks 🎉
Jun 23: Selected to deliver the graduation speech in the Computer Science MSc graduation ceremony at The Hebrew University 🎓🎓🎉
Mar 23: Invited talk in SheffieldNLP group at The University of Sheffield 💬🇬🇧
Mar 23: Visiting Researcher at The University of Surrey & The University of Sheffield. Hosts: Prof. Chenghua Lin and Prof. Frank Guerin 🇬🇧
Jan 23: Invited talk in BIU-NLP group at Bar Ilan University 💬🇮🇱
Jan 23: Started my PhD (direct track) in Computer Science at The Hebrew University, grateful to be advised by Prof. Dafna Shahaf 🇮🇱
Dec 22: Traveled to Abu Dhabi to present two papers in the main conference of EMNLP 2022 ✈️🗞🗞
Dec 22: New short paper: From Judgement’s Premises Towards Key Points 🎉
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 🎉🎉
Apr 22: Relocated to Munich for MSc exchange program with Erasmus+ scholarship at The Technical University of Munich 🇩🇪
Dec 21: Joined the Hyadata Lab (Prof. Dafna Shahaf) at The Hebrew University 🇮🇱
Oct 20: Started MSc in Computer Science at The Hebrew University 🇮🇱
May 19: Graduated BSc in Computer Science (magna cum laude) from The Hebrew University 🎓🎉
Feb 18: Relocated to Melbourne for BSc exchange program with scholarship at The University of Melbourne 🇦🇺
Oct 15: Started BSc in Computer Science at The Hebrew University 🇮🇱
Visual Editing with LLM-based Tool Chaining 🎨
Nvidia & NLP IL - Natural Language Processing Israel Meetup, Israel 🇮🇱 (Apr 2025).
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Fine-Tuning Session 2 -- Real use-case from Lightricks
AI course, Lightricks, Israel 🇮🇱 (Sep 2024).
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Fine-Tuning Large Language Models (LLMs)
AI course, Lightricks, Israel 🇮🇱 (Sep 2024).
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Automatically Finding Analogies between Situations and Processes
MSc graduation ceremony, The Hebrew University, Israel 🇮🇱 (June 2023).
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Analogies of Situations and Processes: Detection, Explanation, Generation
SheffieldNLP, The University of Sheffield, UK 🇬🇧 (March 2023).
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Using LLMs for Natural-Language Analogies Generation
BIU-NLP, Bar Ilan University, Israel 🇮🇱 (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 🇮🇱 (Jan 2023).
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Breakpoint Transformers for Modeling and Tracking Intermediate Beliefs
Aristo team, Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Seattle, USA 🇺🇸 (Jan 2023).
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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.
Conference Reviewer: ACL 2024, ACL 2025, ACL 2026.
2024: 3-year Fellowship for outstanding PhD candidates in AI and Data Science, 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 – 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).
