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Career

· University Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs2025–
· Strategic Advisor, 4Cast2024–
· Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs2024–2025
· Lecturer, Reichman University2024–2025
· Lecturer, Social Science Tel Aviv University2024–2024
· Director, Red Team Thinking®2021–2022
· Director, Deloitte Israel2020–2021
· Senior Manager, Deloitte Israel2020–2020
· Project Manager, Israeli Defense Intelligence Strategic Transformation, Israel Defense Forces - Military Intelligence2018–2019
· Deputy Head Of Research And Analysis Division, Israel Defense Forces - Military Intelligence2015–2017
· Senior Intelligence Analyst, Israel Defense Forces - Military Intelligence

Publications (41)

SOAP: Improving and Stabilizing Shampoo using Adam
arXiv.org · 2024
105
cited
Generative Social Choice
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation · 2023
56
cited
Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2024
40
cited
A New Perspective on Shampoo's Preconditioner
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2024
33
cited
MRI evidence of white matter damage in a mouse model of Nijmegen breakage syndrome
Experimental Neurology · 2008
32
cited
SOAP: Improving and Stabilizing Shampoo using Adam for Language Modeling
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2025
32
cited
The Yom Kippur intelligence failure after fifty years: what lessons can be learned?
Intelligence and national security · 2023
10
cited
Strategic intelligence as an art and a science: creating and using conceptual frameworks
Intelligence and national security · 2020
7
cited
The limited influence of competitive intelligence over corporate strategy in Israel: historical, organizational, conceptual, and cultural explanations
2020
7
cited
Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI): adaptive evolution in the interaction between collection and analysis
Intelligence and national security · 2022
6
cited
The Main Challenges Facing Strategic Intelligence
5
cited
Learning Social Welfare Functions
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2024
4
cited
Optimal Engagement-Diversity Tradeoffs in Social Media
The Web Conference · 2023
4
cited
Israeli National Intelligence Culture
2024
3
cited
Pairwise Calibrated Rewards for Pluralistic Alignment
arXiv.org · 2025
2
cited
Incentives in Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Agents
arXiv.org · 2025
1
cited
Bias Detection Via Signaling
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2024
Expressivity of Shallow and Deep Neural Networks for Polynomial Approximation
arXiv.org · 2023
Generative Social Choice: OpenAI “Democratic Inputs to AI” Report
How RLHF Amplifies Sycophancy
2026
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