CV

B.Sc.

Tel Aviv University

Computer Science

M.Sc. , GPA: 96

Tel Aviv University

Computer Science

High School Excellence Scholarship for University Studies

Merit-based scholarship awarded for academic excellence; covered full undergraduate tuition.

Teaching Assistant

Tel Aviv University

Mentored students through real-world ML-based security projects.

• Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy (Dr. Mahmood Sharif)
• Workshop on Intrusion Detection with ML (Dr. David Movshovitz)

Software Project Grader

Tel Aviv University

Evaluated correctness and robustness of student implementations in C and Python.

• Tested multiple variants of the K-Means algorithm
• Used Valgrind to verify memory allocations and detect leaks

Graduate RA

Tel Aviv University

Calculus for Mathematicians Tutor

Tel Aviv University

Provided one-on-one tutoring in calculus.

• Clarified core concepts and guided formal mathematical writing
• Designed personalized study plans and prepared students for final exams

Reliable Security-Incident Prediction from Text and Network Measurements

• Built an end-to-end forecasting pipeline using geopolitical news and Internet-wide measurements
• Processed CC-News archives using DataTrove for filtering and deduplication
• Fine-tuned Longformer (MLM) and implemented multi-GPU distributed training with PyTorch DDP

Fingerprinting Embedding Models for Black-Box Retrieval

• Studying stability and transferability of semantic similarity patterns across models
• Focusing on system-level implications of opaque ML components

advEGI: Transferability in Ego-Graph Information Maximization

• Implemented PGD-style adversarial pretraining under budgeted edge perturbations
• Found transfer gains to be inconsistent, with simple baselines often competing strongly