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
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