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About Me

Professor of Computer Science at the Technion. Chief Scientist at Deci AI

Research interests: Deep learning and AI, uncertainty estimation, selective prediction, computational creativity financial modeling

Research Papers

• Google Scholar
• DBLP

Graduate Students

Current Students

• Ido Galil, Ph.D. Candidate.
• Omer Belhasin, Ph.D. Candidate.
• Guy Bar Shalom, Ph.D. Candidate.
• Ido Amit, M.Sc. Candidate.
• Shani Goren, M.Sc. Candidate.

Graduated Students

• Gregory Shakhnarovich, M.Sc., 2001
  Thesis title: Smoothed Bootstrap and Statistical Data Cloning for Classifier Evaluation.
• Rani Yaroshinski, M.Sc. 2001
  Thesis title: Smooth Online Learning of Expert Advice.
• Ziv Nevo, M.Sc. 2002
  Thesis Title: On Online Learning of Decision Lists.
• Ron Bekkerman, M.Sc. 2002 (co-supervised with Y. Winter)
  Thesis title: Beyond Bag-Of-Words: On Feature Distributional Clustering for Text Categorization.
• Kobi Luz, M.Sc. 2003
  Thesis title: Online Learning of Active Learning Algorithms.
• Oren Souroujon, M.Sc. 2004
  Thesis title: Iterative Double Clustering for Unsupervised and Transductive Learning.
• Philip Derbeko, M.Sc. 2004
  Thesis title: Explicit Learning Curves for Transduction and Application to Clustering and Compression Algorithms.
• Ron Begleiter, M.Sc. 2005
  Thesis title: Can Theory Meet Practice in Sequence Prediction?.
• Itai Sharon, M.Sc., 2006
  Thesis title: Information Theoretic Similarity Measures for Biological Sequences.
• Leonid Gerzon, M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics) 2006
  Thesis title: Effective Transductive Learning via Objective Model Selection.
• Dmitry Pechyony, Ph.D. 2009
  Thesis title: Theory and Practice of Transductive Learning.
• Moredechai Nisenson, M.Sc., 2010
  Thesis title: On the Foundations of Adversarial Single-Class Classification.
• David Yanay, M.Sc., 2011
  Thesis title: Supervised Learning of Semantic relatedness.
• Alexandra Faynburd, M.Sc., 2011
  Thesis title: Short term turning point forecasting with support vector regression.
• Dmitry Pidan, M.Sc., 2013
  Thesis title: Selective Prediction with Hidden Markov Models.
• Ron Begleiter, Ph.D., 2013
  Thesis title: Active Learning: Theory and Practice.
• Yair Wiener, Ph.D. 2013
  Thesis title: Theoretical Foundations of Selective Prediction.
• Noam Segev, M.Sc. 2015
  Thesis title: A Model Transfer Learning Framework with Random Forests.
• Itay Hubara, M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering), 2016
  Thesis title: Compressing Neural Networks Using Binary Representation.
• Roei Gelbhart, M.Sc. 2017
  Thesis title: On the Relationship Between Selective Prediction and Active Learning.
• Bar Hilleli, M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering), 2017
  Thesis title: Autonomous Steering without a Simulator using Deep Supervised and Reinforcement Learning.
• Amit Gross, M.Sc., 2018
  Thesis title: Uses of Selective Regression.
• Izik Golan, M.Sc. 2019
  Thesis title: Deep anomaly detection using geometric transformations.
• Amir David Nissan Cohen, M.Sc. 2019
  Thesis title: Optimizing Visual Acuity Tests.
• Yair Feldman, M.Sc. 2019
  Thesis title: Multi-Hop Paragraph Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering.
• Yonatan Geifman, Ph.D. 2019
  Thesis title: Selective Prediction and Its Applications in Deep Neural Networks.
• Nadav Baunker, M.Sc. 2020
  Thesis title: Neural Models for Personalized Jazz Improvisations.
• Guy Uziel, Ph.D. 2020
  Thesis title: Leveraging Machine Learning Algorithms in Online Portfolio Selection.
• Shai Rozenberg, M.Sc. 2020
  Thesis title: Improved Detection Of Adversarial Attacks Via Penetration Distrotion Maximization.
• Ami Abutbul, M.Sc. 2020
  Thesis title: Deep Neural Network Architecture for Tabular Data.
• Shunit Haviv, M.Sc. 2021
  Thesis title: Deep Neural Models for Jazz Improvisations.
• Gal Sade Kenigsberg, M.Sc. 2021
  Thesis title: Leveraging Auxiliary Text for Deep Recognition of Unseen Visual Relationships. .
• Shai Ben Assayag, M.Sc. 2021
  Thesis title: Train on Small, Play the Large: Scaling Up Board Games with AlphaZero and GNN.
• Igor Margulis, M.Sc. 2021
  Thesis title: On Anomaly Detection in Tabular Data.
• Natan Bagrov, M.Sc. 2021
  Thesis title: Ranking and Trading Execution of Mean-Reverting Portfolios.
• Mohammed Dabbah, M.Sc. 2022
  Thesis title: Using Fictitious Class Representations to Boost Discriminative Zero-Shot Learners.

Contact

• The best way to reach me is via email: rani at cs dot technion dot ac dot il
  Note that my email response time can sometimes be very slow.
  
  Office: CS Dept. (Taub building), office 526
  Office phone: (+972)-4-829-3379