Nadav Cohen
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Assoc. Professor of Computer Science & AI @ Tel Aviv University |
About Me
I lead research spanning the foundations of deep learning (a.k.a. neural networks) through to its deployment in the physical world. My academic research group develops mathematical theories and systematic experiments aiming to yield principled algorithms that improve performance. My industry labs develop world models for decision making (e.g., via reinforcement learning) in physical AI, with systems in production at global scale.
News
7-May’26: New paper explaining why agentic safety often fails to generalize across tasks.
7-May’26: Honored to receive the Israel AI Safety Research Prize.
31-Mar’26: Congratulations to Yotam Alexander for receiving the Deutch PhD Prize.
21-Jan’26: New paper proving that Reinforcement Learning leads Transformers to reason, but only with the right data.
26-Feb’26: Honored to be elected as a Senior Member of the US National Academy of Inventors.
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 the Princeton Language and Intelligence Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
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 an ELLIS Scholar.
4-Nov’20: Honored to receive the Google Gift for Machine Learning Research.
1-Jul’19: Joined the School of Computer Science & AI at Tel Aviv University as a Faculty Member.
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 (Princeton) as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
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.