Meet the Interns at IBM Research - Israel
Meet the Interns at IBM Research - Israel
2024
Technion
Hadas Abraham
Research Area:
Hybrid Cloud
"I focused on enhancing the performance of automated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) across multiple domains."
Technion
Tomer Ashuach
Research Area:
RAG on LLMs (NLP)
"I'm using RAG and LangGraph with LLMs to automate the extraction of data-related risks from legal documents, providing a clear and concise assessment of these risks and their urgency."
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nitzan Barzilay
Research Area:
NLP
"I’m working on efficient benchmarking for RAG systems that allows trustworthy evaluation of many RAG configurations even on a limited budget."
Bar Ilan University
Itay Etelis
Research Area:
Hybrid Cloud
"I have been leveraging generative AI to develop an agentic AI connector. This project involves addressing the schema matching problem and implementing the necessary transformations."
Technion
Marah Ghoummaid
Research Area:
AI for Multi-Cloud Networking
"I’m working on leveraging AI and NLP techniques to improve and innovate features within multi-cloud networking tools."
Tel-Aviv University
Nimrod Harel
Research Area:
In-Context Learning (ICL)
"My research is about leveraging in-context learning (ICL) as a tool for compressing context within deep learning."
Technion
Reda Igabaria
Research Area:
Quality Technologies
"I’m working on developing an evaluation measurement for watsonx code assistant. Specifically, our work is about exploring the use of LLMs for code generation evaluation."
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Itay Lavie
Research Area:
Decision Optimization
“I work on theoretical understanding of transformers in the context of combinatorial optimization.”
Technion
Ido Levy
Research Area:
AI
"During my internship in the AI department, I designed and developed a general web agent to solve complex tasks using an agentic workflow architecture."
Hebrew University
Gili Lior
Research Area:
NLP
"I work on developing self-improving and self-criticizing LLMs."
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Noa Moriel
Research Area:
Biomedical foundational models for target discovery
"I set out to explore whether transcriptomic foundation models, like scGPT, truly learn biological relationships through pretraining, particularly actual gene regulatory connections."
Technion
Itay Nakash
Research Area:
Red-Teaming LLM Agents
"Through an approach called red teaming, I’m identifying vulnerabilities in LLM agents and uncovering potential risks to ensure we deliver safer, more reliable systems."
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Roni Schwartz
Research Area:
security AI
"I’m developing an optimization algorithm that uses scale manipulation within a graph model to reduce multiplication depth in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) computations for LLMs that execute on encrypted data."
Tel Aviv University
Ben Shapira
Research Area:
Generative Modelling
for Drug Discovery
"I contributed to a computational biology research paper that focuses on developing a multi-domain model for drug discovery by fine-tuning the foundation model to learn interesting downstream tasks."
Ben-Gurion University
Noa Tal
Research Area:
NLP
"I'm generating data that simulates conversations of an analyst in a risk event chat using LLMs. I'm also evaluating the user's response to the answers received through the chat."
Ben-Gurion University
Avraham Yagudaev
Research Area:
Security
"I’m working on developing a comprehensive dataset of SQL queries to train a model to identify SQL injection vulnerabilities."
2023
Tel Aviv University
Ido Amos
Research Area:
Generative Modeling for Drug Discovery
"During my internship at IBM, I focused on leveraging graph neural networks for the challenging task of drug discovery. This role gave me the unique opportunity to tackle the challenge of designing novel drugs with state-of-the-art computational methods, working alongside a fantastic team"
Ben-Gurion University
Ariel Blobstein
Research Area:
NLP
"I am working on generating synthetic data sets to be served as a training set for Large Language Models. I am generating data sets for various query languages using LLMs and syntax rules. "
Technion
Roy Elkabetz
Research Area:
Quantum
"I worked on single qubit pulsed quantum gate optimization using Machine Learning methods. I had a great time at IBM, the research topic was fascinating, and it has been awesome to experience how cutting-edge research in quantum computing takes part in IBM's products and applications."
Technion
Elazar Gershuni
Research Area:
Hybrid Cloud
"During my internship at IBM Research - Israel, my area of research has been the static analysis of software."
Technion
Noam Koren
Research Area:
Security
"I am an intern in the AI Privacy group. I am working on membership inference attacks for time series models."
Hebrew University
Osher Maayan
Research Area:
Hybrid Cloud
"During my internship in the Hybrid Cloud group, I built employed language models for cardinality estimation of complex queries, which are common in analytics and integration pipelines."
Hebrew University
Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik
Research Area:
Quantum
"During my internship, I am analyzing the performance of quantum error correction codes in the presence of realistic, physically inspired noise models."
Tel Aviv University
Nimrod Shabtay
Research Area:
Artificial Intelligence
"Working on scene understanding and visual question-answering with graphs and LLMs"
University of Oxford
Lucile Ter-Minassian
Research Area:
Causal Inference and Explainable Machine Learning
"During my time at IBM, I developed a tree-based model that identifies clusters where natural experiments occur. Our model can characterize overlap and estimate causal effects in an interpretable manner."
Hebrew University
Elkana Tovey
Research Area:
Secure Communication, Networking, Applied Cryptography
"I work on secure proxying for servers behind a firewall in Hybrid Cloud"
2022
Hebrew University
Avihu Dekel
Research Area:
Deep Learning for Healthcare
"Working on pretraining multi-modal transformers in a self-supervised manner on structured data, MRI images, and genomic data from UK Biobank for improving downstream risk prediction tasks."
Hebrew University
Liran Shirizly
Research Area:
Quantum computing
"During my internship, I worked on modelling the experimental noisy dynamics of IBM's superconducting qubits."
2021
Centrale Lille (France)
Rony Abecidan
Research Area:
Causal Inference, Machine Learning and Healthcare
"I am estimating how much events are unseen within a medical database so that we can correct causal estimations we could derive from it."
Technion
Antonio Abu Nassar
Research Area:
mutation analysis for automatic unit-level differential test generation
"At IBM, I work on introducing an additional tool for unit-level test generation, namely mutation analysis, and measuring its statistical advantage."
Bar Ilan University
Ori Ernst
Research Area:
Multi Document Summarization
"In my work, I try to automatically match between customer's security requirements and cloud standards using innovative NLP interpretability methods. IBM's work environment enables high - level research with great people and experts in their field."
University of Haifa
Marcelo Feighelstein
Research Area:
Automatic Recognition of Animal Emotions
"The goal of our project is to build an AI-based application able to interpret flow charts on images and answer questions based on such interpretation. As part of this project we built the first GraphQA dataset, including flow chart images, corresponding metadata and tailored Q&As for each graph, supplying an accuracy baseline for such Q&A interpretation task."
Technion
Itai Gat
Research Area:
Speech (IBM) Bias removal and generalization in multi-modal settings (Technion)
"I work on learning data representations that can separate the distinct, informative factors in speech signals such as the speaker information, textual content, etc. The goal is to enhance various speech classification tasks' generalization abilities when the number of labeled training examples is relatively small."
Technion
Rom Gutman
Research Area:
Causal Inference, Machine Learning and Healthcare
"I'm working on evaluation of calibration as a metric for Propensity score correctness."
University of Haifa
Ibrahim Jubran
Research Area:
Computer Vision, Machine / Deep Learning, and Compression of Big Data
"I am working on disease progression prediction and simulation in Mammography images."
Tel Aviv University
Yuval Kirstain
Research Area:
NLP
"I'm working on end-to-end dialog systems."
University of Haifa
Alexandra Kogan
Research Area:
Machine learning
"I use Machine Learning to identify possible future melanoma and kidney cancer patients"
Technion
Oleg Kolosov
Research Area:
Identity centric networking and edge systems
"I work on Provider-side network-aware optimization in the 5G environment."
Technion
Yotam Lifshitz
Research Area:
Quantum Information
"I work on Quantum Computing Summer Intern, focusing on quantum state tomography."
Technion
Michael Mirkin
Research Area:
AI and Cybersecurity
"I'm working on analytics over encrypted data using fully homomorphic encryption."
Technion
Oded Naor
Research Area:
Distributed systems and blockchains
"I work on Ceph, an open-source distributed storage platform."
Technion
Elisheva Shamash
Research Area:
Decision Optimization
"I enjoy working at IBM very much. The people are pleasant and helpful, and the developing possibilities seem interesting and plentiful."
Technion
Daniel Shats
Research Area:
Deep Learning & Computer Vision for Healthcare
"I am working with the Deep Learning & Computer Vision team to win a 3d kidney disease segmentation competition."
Technion
Kfir Toledo
Research Area:
Networking ,Cloud, Algorithms
"I work on Function Chain Transport Optimization in Hybrid Cloud."
Technion
Chen Zeira Zeno
Research Area:
Neural Networks, Bayesian Deep Learning, Machine Learning
"I am an intern in the AI in Healthcare group. I am working on the topic of multimodal learning using Supervised Contrastive Learning."
University of Haifa
Yuli Zeira
Research Area:
NLP
"I work on a project aiming to detect the state of a chatbot-client dialogue at an early stage of the conversation, using classic machine learning methods ad state-of-the-art methods as well."