Remember when we could specialize in just NLP or CV? Those days are fading fast. As someone who’s navigated both worlds, I’ve witnessed firsthand how these once-separate domains are rapidly converging.
In this roundtable, we’ll explore:
* How traditional AI specializations are blending in unexpected ways
* Real challenges teams face when building multimodal systems
* Practical strategies for adapting our skills and careers
Let’s have an honest conversation about where our fields are heading and how we can prepare ourselves for this exciting yet challenging future.
Hila Weisman-Zohar is a distinguished senior data scientist and AI researcher with over 15 years of experience pioneering innovative solutions in natural language processing and recommender systems. As a prolific inventor and researcher, she holds five US patents and has published influential papers in top-tier conferences including EMNLP and RecSys, garnering 76 citations for her groundbreaking work.
Currently leading Generative AI initiatives at Now You Know, Hila previously drove significant innovations at Outbrain, where she developed ML models that enhanced recommendation engine performance and increased user engagement. Her work at NICE focused on groundbreaking NLP engines for call center analytics, contributing to multiple patents in AI and text normalization.
Hila holds an MSc in computer science (summa cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University, where her research focused on semantic inference and textual entailment. Her unique blend of academic rigor, industrial expertise, and community leadership makes her a distinctive voice in the global AI community.
| 8:45 | Reception |
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| 9:30 | Opening remarks by WiDS TLV ambassadors |
| 9:45 | Dr. Mor Geva , Tel Aviv University: “MRI for Large Language Models: Mechanistic Interpretability from Neurons to Attention Heads” |
| 10:15 |
Panel: “Pioneering Progress: a strategic look at the GenAI revolution and the new role of data scientists“ Shani Gershtein, Melingo Mirit Elyada Bar, Intuit Dr. Asi Messica, Lightricks Moderated by Nitzan Gado, Intuit |
| 10:45 | Poster pitches |
| 10:55 | Break |
| 11:10 | Lightning talks session |
| 12:30 | Lunch & poster session |
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| 13:30 | Roundtable session & poster session |
| 14:30 | Roundtable closing |
| 14:40 | Shunit Agmon, Technion: “Bridging the Gender Gap in Clinical AI: Temporal Adaptation with TeDi-BERT” |
| 15:00 | Shaked Naor Hoffmann, Apartment List: “Building Generative AI Agents for Production: Turning Ideas into Real-World Applications” |
| 15:20 | Closing remarks |
| 15:30 | The end |
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