I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford University, working on NLP and ML.

Before Stanford, I was working as an engineer at Meta. I completed my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University.

Feel free to reach out!

Papers

Selected

2026

  • Document Optimization thumbnail
    Document Optimization for Black-Box Retrieval via Reinforcement Learning

    Omri Uzan, Ron Polonsky, Douwe Kiela, Christopher Potts
    arXiv
    paper code

2025

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

    Omri Uzan, Asaf Yehudai, Roi Pony, Eyal Shnarch, Ariel Gera
    ICLR-26
    paper code project
  • CharBench thumbnail
    CharBench: Evaluating the Role of Tokenization in Character-Level Tasks

    Omri Uzan, Yuval Pinter
    AAAI-26 Oral
    paper benchmark

2024

  • 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
  • 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
    paper code
  • Evaluating Subword Tokenization thumbnail
    Evaluating Subword Tokenization: Alien Subword Composition and OOV Generalization Challenge

    Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Ekaterina Vylomova, Verna Dankers, Tsetsuukhei Delgerbaatar, Omri Uzan, Yuval Pinter, Gábor Bella
    arXiv
    paper