Lihi Shiloh-Perl

Guardians of the Aisles: On Battling Retail Theft
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Abstract

Retail shrinkage, from theft to employee fraud and operational inefficiencies, costs global retailers an estimated $1.77 trillion annually. However, despite its significance, shrinkage remains an emerging open problem due to its complexity. Just consider: every false-positive means wrongly accusing someone of stealing!

Bio

Dr. Lihi Shiloh-Perl is an algorithm researcher at Trigo, developing cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary technologies. She enjoys working on the seam between physical problems and advanced algorithms. Lihi received her PhD in 2020 from Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering after researching advanced signal processing for distributed acoustic sensing. She finished her MSc at TelAviv University as well and her BSc at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Agenda

8:45 Reception
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
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