Rotem Dror
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
University of Haifa
About
I study how to draw reliable conclusions from empirical evidence in natural language processing. My work develops statistically sound methods for evaluating models, for measuring the quality of data annotations, and for deciding when large language models can be trusted to stand in for human judgment.
Before joining the University of Haifa in 2023, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognitive Computation Group at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Prof. Dan Roth. I received my Ph.D. from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion, where I was advised by Prof. Roi Reichart in the NLP group; my thesis was on structured prediction algorithms and statistically sound evaluation. My postdoctoral research was supported by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Award for Women in Mathematical and Computing Sciences and by the Weizmann Institute Women's Postdoctoral Career Development Award. My lab is currently funded by the Israel Science Foundation.
Read more about my research vision and topics, or meet the students I work with.
Prospective students
I am looking for motivated M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, who are interested in NLP, LLM evaluation, and the statistics of empirical research. A background in computer science, statistics, data science, or a related field is welcome; curiosity and care about doing research carefully matter most.
If you would like to join, please email your CV to rdror@is.haifa.ac.il, along with a few sentences about the topics that interest you.
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