Computer Science Bar Ilan

Congratulations to Prof. @rtsarfaty on her promotion to Full Professor! A global leader in multilingual NLP, her research advances AI for diverse and under-resourced languages, with contributions to Hebrew language technologies and international initiatives @Bar_ilan

Huge congrats to Ido Tziony, PhD student in @YaronOrenstein’s lab at @Bar_ilan , on receiving the prestigious VATAT Fellowship for excellence in AI & Data Science! Ido is advancing #CRISPR precision and genetic data analysis.

Congratulations to Prof. Eylon Yogev on his promotion to Associate Professor! A leading researcher in cryptography and theoretical CS, his work on advanced proof systems, blockchain security, and post-quantum cryptography places him at the forefront of global research @Bar_ilan

Congratulations to Dr. @Yoni Zohar on winning the 2026 Rector's Prize for Scientific Innovation! 🏆 His research provides a major breakthrough in #SoftwareVerification, optimizing 40-year-old mathematical theory integration. @Bar_ilan

Congrats to Jonathan Shaki 🏆 PhD candidate awarded the prestigious @CheMalag Fellowship for Outstanding PhD Students in AI & Data Science (top 20 nationwide!). Researching LLMs & Game Theory under Prof. Sarit Kraus and Prof. Yonatan Aumann. Proud! @Bar_ilan

Proud to see Prof. Sarit Kraus, Prof. Gal Kaminka, and Dr. Alex Shleifman at #AAAI — the world’s leading AI conference. Special pride in Kraus and Kaminka as AAAI Fellows, a rare global honor. 👏 @Bar_ilan

New paper from CS @BarIlanU introduces NER Retriever, showing that entity knowledge in large language models is embedded in deep layers — enabling smarter, more flexible AI search. aclanthology.org/anthology-file…

How can a computer learn from just one image? PhD research by @dvir_samuel (with Prof. @GalChechik) shows how AI can learn from scarce, unbalanced data—making models smarter, more flexible, and useful for search, media, and medicine. @BarIlanU

Proud to share that Dr. @UXShaham has been awarded the Breakthrough AI Research Grant by Israel’s @most_il His research explores learning multimodal representations from unpaired data — a step that could reshape how AI systems are trained and applied.

ISCOL 2025 at @BarIlanU A day of cutting-edge NLP research, academia–industry exchange, a keynote by Prof. Dan Roth on LLMs, inspiring posters, and a moving tribute to Prof. Ari Rappoport. Thank you to our sponsors and community — see you next year! @yanaiela

How do we capture images faster—without losing performance? A new research by Yaniv Zimmer shows how deep learning can select only the most important wavelengths in hyperspectral imaging, achieving full accuracy with far less data. Accepted at #ECAI in Italy @BarIlanU

As Prof. Sarit Kraus completes her term as Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences, we wish to express our deep appreciation for her leadership, vision and exceptional academic impact.A world-renowned scientist, She will continue to serve as Head of AI Research at @BarIlanU

דר׳ אילון יוגב כבר עובד על הדור הבא של עולם הסייבר — זה שיגן על המרחב הדיגיטלי ביום שבו מחשבים קוונטיים יאיימו לפרוץ כל כלי של אבטחת מידע>> @BarIlanU

Computer Science department at @BarIlanU researchers present SUE – Spectral Universal Embedding, a new method that lets AI find shared patterns across different data types without paired data. Unveiled at #NeurIPS2025, this breakthrough could enable more flexible and scalable AI.

Proud moment! Our researchers Tal Fiskus & Dr. @UXShaham have been accepted to #NeurIPS2025 with SUFT-a new method that “turns sand into gold” in Reinforcement Learning. It reuses valuable data, bridging on-policy & off-policy learning and enabling faster, more efficient AI.

New AI-driven study by Prof. @elad1 from @BarIlanU and Dr. Netanel Dagan from @HebrewU analyzed 11,000+ posts from people before and after prison. Findings: mental health declines, some physical health improves, and talk about drugs, spirituality and self-blame rises.

Dr. @amitmoryossef , CS graduate, sold his sign-language tech startup Sign.mt to Nagish in a multi-million-dollar deal. He now becomes Head of Research at Nagish. A huge achievement—and another proof of @BarIlanU’s role in shaping Israel’s next tech leaders

🧠 Do LLMs think during training or only at runtime? A new study from @ubarilan: PhD candidate Yonatan Shaki, supervised by Prof. @kraus_sari3834 shows: Real reasoning happens during training, not when the model runs. Powerful—yes. A substitute for human thinking? Not yet

🎉 Congrats to Saar Cohen from @BarIlanU on winning the IAAI Doctoral Dissertation Award! His PhD, supervised by Prof. Noa Agmon, pioneered research on online coalition formation under uncertainty—advancing AI in multi-agent systems, game theory & decision-making.

Proud moment for @BarIlanU ! 🎓🚀 Carbyne, co-founded by two graduates of our Computer Science Department — Alex Dizengof & Yoni Yatson — was acquired by Axon in a $625M deal @calcalist