Nadav Cohen
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Assoc. Professor of Computer Science & AI @ Tel Aviv University |
Research
My research focuses on the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of Deep Learning. I am interested in mathematically analyzing aspects of expressiveness, optimization and generalization, with the goal of deriving theoretically grounded algorithms that improve practical performance.
News
18-Sep’25: Two papers from my group accepted to NeurIPS 2025, one of them in Spotlight Track (top 3%).
17-Sep’25: Congratulations to Yotam Alexander for receiving the Shashua Prize.
8-Dec’24: Promoted to Assoc. Professor (with tenure).
6-Oct’24: Congratulations to Noam Razin for receiving the Israel Council for Higher Education Fellowship for Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholars.
1-Oct’24: Congratulations to Noam Razin for receiving the Zuckerman Postdoctoral Fellowship.
5-Sep’24: Honored to receive the ERC Starting Grant.
1-Sep’24: Congratulations to Noam Razin for joining Princeton Language and Intelligence Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
25-Aug’24: Released lecture notes on the theory (and surprising practical applications) of linear neural networks.
5-Jun’23: Hosted OpenAI CEO and Chief Scientist at Tel Aviv University.
30-Mar’23: Congratulations to Noam Razin for receiving the Deutch PhD Prize.
16-Mar’22: Congratulations to Noam Razin for receiving the Apple AI/ML PhD fellowship.
3-Oct’21: Congratulations to Noam Razin for receiving the Tel Aviv University Center for AI & Data Science PhD fellowship.
16-Aug’21: Imubit is out of stealth.
11-Mar’21: Honored to receive the Google Research Scholar Award.
1-Dec’20: Honored to be elected as ELLIS Scholar.
4-Nov’20: Honored to receive the Google Gift for Machine Learning Research.
1-Jul’19: Joined the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.
14-May’18: Honored to receive the Hebrew University's Hans Wiener Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis.
7-Nov’17: Honored to be part of TheMarker Magazine's 40 Under 40 list (for academic achievements).
25-Sep’17: Joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
04-Jul’17: Honored to receive the Final Prize for Machine Learning Research.
05-Jun’17: Honored to receive the Zuckerman Postdoctoral Fellowship.
24-Jan’17: Honored to receive the Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship.
28-Aug’15: Honored to receive the Google Doctoral Fellowship in Machine Learning.