About

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford University. I am currently working with Chris Potts and Douwe Kiela.

Before Stanford, I was a software engineer at Meta, where I worked on server-side optimizations for mobile web interfaces and on semantic retrieval for SEO applications. I also spent a summer at IBM Research, working on improved methods for multimodal retrieval.

I completed my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University, and I am grateful to have been advised by Yuval Pinter.

Selected Papers

  • Guided Query Refinement thumbnail
    Guided Query Refinement: Multimodal Hybrid Retrieval with Test-Time Optimization

    Omri Uzan, Asaf Yehudai, Roi Pony, Eyal Shnarch, Ariel Gera
    Preprint
    paper code project
  • CharBench thumbnail
    CharBench: Evaluating the Role of Tokenization in Character-Level Tasks

    Omri Uzan, Yuval Pinter
    AAAI-26 Oral (Top 4% of submissions)
    paper code data
  • Greed is All You Need thumbnail
    Greed is All You Need: An Evaluation of Tokenizer Inference Methods

    Omri Uzan, Craig W. Schmidt, Chris Tanner, Yuval Pinter
    ACL-24 Oral Outstanding Paper Award Senior Area Chair Award
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  • Tokenization Is More Than Compression thumbnail
    Tokenization Is More Than Compression

    Craig W. Schmidt, Varshini Reddy, Haoran Zhang, Alec Alameddine, Omri Uzan, Yuval Pinter, Chris Tanner
    EMNLP-24 Oral
    paper