Nadav Cohen
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Assoc. Professor of Computer Science & AI @ Tel Aviv University |
About Me
I lead academic and industrial research spanning the foundations of deep learning (a.k.a. neural networks) through to its real-world application. On the academic side, my research group develops theory and experiments aiming to derive principled methods that improve practical performance. On the industrial side, I lead teams developing world models for decision making (e.g., via reinforcement learning) in physical AI.
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.