HiAI University of Haifa AI Conference

MAY 25-27, 2025

Program

26.5.2025 Monday

Hecht Auditorium, University of Haifa
The program is subject to change

  • Gathering
    09:00 - 08:30

Keynote 2
Chair: Mor Peleg

  • Keynote - AI and Human Communication: New Challenges and the Way Forward
    Mor Naaman, Information Science Department, Cornell University Jacobs Institute, Cornell Tech
    10:00 - 09:00

Session 1 - Social Sciences
Chair: Anna Brook

  • Can AI challenge partisan news selection? Evidence from a conjoint experiment
    Alon Zoizner, Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences
    10:15 - 10:00
  • Evaluating Large Language Models as Judicial Decision-Makers
    Adir Solomon, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social Sciences
    10:30 - 10:15
  • Integrating Healthcare and Welfare Data for Early Detection of Child Maltreatment
    Ravit Alfandari and Amit Levin Koren, School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
    10:45 - 10:30
  • A new look at old trauma - using NLP to understand the experience of therapists who are second-generation Holocaust survivors
    Roni Yuval, Department of Therapy, Counseling and Human Development, Faculty of Education
    10:55 - 10:45
  • Industry talk - Human-AI Integration Challenges in the Future Battlefield
    Yotam S., RAFAEL
    11:10 - 10:55

11:10 - 11:30 - Coffee break & Poster session

Session 2 - Core Machine Learning
Chair: TBD

  • Fantastic Generalization Measures are Nowhere to be Found
    Ido Nachum, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural Sciences
    11:45 - 11:30
  • Formal methods meets AI in controller design
    Guy Avni, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    12:00 - 11:45
  • Predicting 3D Scenes By Latent Posterior Sampling
    Azmi Haider, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    12:10 - 12:00
  • Flow Matching Neural Processes
    Hussen Abu Hamad, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    12:20 - 12:10
  • AI-Driven 3D Modeling for Marine Biodiversity and Habitat Mapping
    Haitham Ezzy, School of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences
    12:30 - 12:20
  • Industry talk - Towards MultiModal RAG – Enhancing knowledge driven AI with visual data
    Adi Raz Goldfarb, IBM
    12:40 - 12:30

12:40 - 13:40 - Lunch break

Session 3 - Biomedical applications
Chair: Mor Peleg

  • SegQC: a segmentation network-based framework for segmentation quality control and segmentation error detection in volumetric medical images
    Bella Specktor Fadida, Department of Medical Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
    13:55 - 13:40
  • Combined Retrospective and Prospective AI-Based Earlier-than-Early Detection of Breast Tumors in BRCA Mutation Carriers by Fusion of Image and Non-Image Features
    Shira Rotman, Department of Medical Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
    14:10 - 13:55
  • Predicting Suicide Risk in Bipolar Disorder patients from Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines genetic signatures
    Shani Stern, Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
    14:25 - 14:10
  • Non-canonical connectivity across a whole-brain network in Drosophila
    David Deutsch, Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
    14:40 - 14:25
  • Using an interaction-driven contagion model to understand the temporal dynamics of disease spread
    Osnat Mokryn, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social Sciences
    14:55 - 14:40
  • Generating Ontology-Learning Training-Data through Verbalization
    Mor Peleg, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social Sciences
    15:10 - 14:55
  • Predicting gene sequences with AI to study codon usage patterns
    Rachel Kolodny, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    15:25 - 15:10
  • Holistic view of protein space emerges from learning to identify protein motifs
    Guy Yanai, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    15:35 - 15:25

15:35 - 16:00 - Coffee break

Keynote 3
Chair: Dan Rosenbaum

  • Keynote - NLP - Nature, Language, Product
    Tal Luzzatto Knaan, Department of Marine Biology, Charney School of Marine Sciences
    16:45 - 16:00

16:45 - 17:05 - Award ceremony

Registration

HiAI University of Haifa AI Conference

MAY 25-27, 2025

Program

26.5.2025 Monday

Hecht Auditorium, University of Haifa
The program is subject to change

  • Gathering
    09:00 - 08:30

Keynote 2
Chair: Mor Peleg

  • Keynote - AI and Human Communication: New Challenges and the Way Forward
    Mor Naaman, Information Science Department, Cornell University Jacobs Institute, Cornell Tech
    10:00 - 09:00

Session 1 - Social Sciences
Chair: Anna Brook

  • Can AI challenge partisan news selection? Evidence from a conjoint experiment
    Alon Zoizner, Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences
    10:15 - 10:00
  • Evaluating Large Language Models as Judicial Decision-Makers
    Adir Solomon, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social Sciences
    10:30 - 10:15
  • Integrating Healthcare and Welfare Data for Early Detection of Child Maltreatment
    Ravit Alfandari and Amit Levin Koren, School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
    10:45 - 10:30
  • A new look at old trauma - using NLP to understand the experience of therapists who are second-generation Holocaust survivors
    Roni Yuval, Department of Therapy, Counseling and Human Development, Faculty of Education
    10:55 - 10:45
  • Industry talk - Human-AI Integration Challenges in the Future Battlefield
    Yotam S., RAFAEL
    11:10 - 10:55

11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break & Poster session

Session 2 - Core Machine Learning
Chair: TBD

  • Fantastic Generalization Measures are Nowhere to be Found
    Ido Nachum, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural Sciences
    11:45 - 11:30
  • Formal methods meets AI in controller design
    Guy Avni, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    12:00 - 11:45
  • Predicting 3D Scenes By Latent Posterior Sampling
    Azmi Haider, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    12:10 - 12:00
  • Flow Matching Neural Processes
    Hussen Abu Hamad, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    12:20 - 12:10
  • AI-Driven 3D Modeling for Marine Biodiversity and Habitat Mapping
    Haitham Ezzy, School of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences
    12:30 - 12:20
  • Industry talk - Towards MultiModal RAG – Enhancing knowledge driven AI with visual data
    Adi Raz Goldfarb, IBM
    12:40 - 12:30

12:40 - 13:40
Lunch break

Session 3 - Biomedical applications
Chair: Mor Peleg

  • SegQC: a segmentation network-based framework for segmentation quality control and segmentation error detection in volumetric medical images
    Bella Specktor Fadida, Department of Medical Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
    13:55 - 13:40
  • Combined Retrospective and Prospective AI-Based Earlier-than-Early Detection of Breast Tumors in BRCA Mutation Carriers by Fusion of Image and Non-Image Features
    Shira Rotman, Department of Medical Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
    14:10 - 13:55
  • Predicting Suicide Risk in Bipolar Disorder patients from Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines genetic signatures
    Shani Stern, Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
    14:25 - 14:10
  • Non-canonical connectivity across a whole-brain network in Drosophila
    David Deutsch, Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
    14:40 - 14:25
  • Using an interaction-driven contagion model to understand the temporal dynamics of disease spread
    Osnat Mokryn, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social Sciences
    14:55 - 14:40
  • Generating Ontology-Learning Training-Data through Verbalization
    Mor Peleg, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social Sciences
    15:10 - 14:55
  • Predicting gene sequences with AI to study codon usage patterns
    Rachel Kolodny, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    15:25 - 15:10
  • Holistic view of protein space emerges from learning to identify protein motifs
    Guy Yanai, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
    15:35 - 15:25

15:35 - 15:55
Coffee break

Keynote 3
Chair: Dan Rosenbaum

  • Keynote - NLP - Nature, Language, Product
    Tal Luzzatto Knaan, Department of Marine Biology, Charney School of Marine Sciences
    16:40 - 15:55

16:40 - 17:00
Award ceremony

Registration