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2026

Jul 31, 2026 Co-hosted the Buddhist Benchmarking & Evaluation Webinar.
Jul 2026 ID10M-JAM: Stress-Testing Idiom Identification Under Challenging Context accepted to ACL 2026, Findings.
Jul 21–25, 2026 Taught the AI Workshop for Tibetan Studies in Hamburg, Germany.
Apr 16–19, 2026 Participated in a Workshop on Tibetan Translation and AI in Padua, Italy.
Feb 8, 2026 Organized the Intellexus Annual Nexus 2026 in Herzliya, Israel.
Feb 3, 2026 Talk at KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium: "Towards Idea Discovery: Extracting and Matching Ideas from Corpora via Idiomatic Expressions"
Jan 29, 2026 Talk at University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark: "Towards Idea Discovery: Extracting and Matching Ideas from Corpora via Idiomatic Expressions"
Jan 20, 2026 Talk at Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts in New Taipei, Taiwan: "Towards NLP-based Analysis of Buddhist Corpora"
Jan 14, 2026 Talk at Fo Guang Shan Monastery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan: "Towards NLP-based Analysis of Buddhist Corpora"

2025

Dec 2025 Not Just a Piece of Cake: Cross-Lingual Fine-Tuning for Idiom Identification accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Main Track.
Dec 2025 DharmaBench: Evaluating Language Models on Buddhist Texts in Sanskrit and Tibetan accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Main Track.
Dec 9, 2025 Talk at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan: "Intellexus Research"
Dec 1, 2025 Talk at AIST in Tokyo, Japan: "Intellexus Research"
Nov 2025 Easy as PIE? Identifying Multi-Word Expressions with LLMs accepted to EMNLP 2025, Main Track.
Sep 13, 2025 Participated in the Intellexus Annual Nexus 2025 in Herzliya, Israel.
Aug 2025 Building Patient Journeys in Hebrew: A Language Model for Clinical Timeline Extraction accepted to IJCAI 2025, LLM for Health Workshop.
Aug 10, 2025 Participated in the Intellexus Panel at the XXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) in Leipzig, Germany.
Apr 2025 Started a Computer Science PhD at Reichman University, supervised by Dr. Kfir Bar.
Apr 2025 Joined I-NEXT DATA at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center as NLP Research Consultant.

Earlier

Oct 2024 Started teaching Data Science / NLP as a self-employed lecturer.
Apr 2023 Joined TU Darmstadt (TrustHLT group) as a research assistant on Differential Privacy and text anonymization.
2022–2025 Graduated Summa cum laude, MSc in Computer Science, Reichman University.
2022 Graduated Summa cum laude, BSc in Computer Science & Entrepreneurship, Reichman University.