Short Bio

I am a Lecturer at the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

I am also a member of the School of Brain Sciences and Cognition, the Data Science Research Center, and the Center for the Study of Digital Politics and Strategy, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

My research fields are Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). I am particularly interested in Natural Language Understanding, Semantics, Multilinguality and the intersection between NLP and Cognitive Science.

I previously was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cognitive Computation Group at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania with Prof. Dan Roth.

I completed my Ph.D. at the Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Lab at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof. Ari Rappoport where I worked on the integration of semantic and cognitive information into Text Simplification and Machine Translation.

Previously, I graduated my master’s degree (magna cum laude) in Cognitive Science, under the supervision of Prof. Ari Rappoport [dissertation] (Cognitive Sciences Department’s prize for outstanding thesis). During my graduate studies, I was a member of the Language, Logic, and Cognition Center at the Hebrew University.

I previously completed a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics (extended program) and Cognitive Sciences at the Hebrew University.