Last updated 11.26.2024

Hi there!

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student in the V2 NeuroSymbolic Lab at Arizona State University (ASU), USA under the direction of Prof. Paulo Shakarian and Research Associate in the Global Security Initiative of ASU. You can see my ASU profile here.

Until recently, I served as an AI/ML Researcher at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel. I hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Mechatronics Engineering, both from BGU. My research interests are in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Machine Learning (ML), and Modern Control Theory.

I was a part of Prof. Gera Weiss and Prof. Shai Arogeti’s Robotics lab at BGU, which I co-founded. The lab dealt (and still deals) with problems in Robotics, Dynamical Systems, Optimal Control, Multi-Objective Optimization, Game Theory, Formal Logic, Automata Theory and Software Engineering. The lab used supervised and unsupervised mathematical learning methods in Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms.

I’m looking to collaborate on various AI/ML-related problems, both from a formal and algorithmic approach, to deliver cutting-edge intelligent solutions to contemporary technological systems.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona
2023-2027

Research Associate at the V2 Neuro-Symbolic AI lab under the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Supervised by Prof. Paulo Shakarian (Wikipedia, Google Scholar, IEEE, dblp)
Leading a team of four researches in conducting Neuro-Symbolic AI research
Authored and will present a peer-reviewed paper at CIKM 2024
Developed an open-source Python package called PyEDCR

M.Sc. in Computer Science

Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva, Israel
2019-2022

Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Software Systems Major
Advised by:
- Prof. Gera Weiss, Computer Science (Google Scholar, IEEE, dblp)
- Prof. Shai Arogeti, Mechanical Engineering (Google Scholar, IEEE, dblp)
Conducted research in algorithmic control theory with a team of six senior academic members
- The multidisciplinary team consists of members from the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering,
- The team is led by Prof. Gera Weiss, Head of the Software Engineering department and Prof. Shai Arogeti, Head of the Teaching Committee at the Mechanical Engineering department
Authored and presented a peer-reviewed paper at MED 2021
Developed an open-source Python package called PyDiffGame, implementing the method suggested at the article
Graduated with GPA: 92.26/100
Thesis grade: 94/100
Conferred June 2023
Certification

Selected courses homeworks:

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva, Israel
2014-2018

Control Systems, Mechatronics and Robotics Major
Graduated with GPA: 84.74/100
Junior and Senior (3rd and 4th years) GPA: 89.52/100
Final Project awarded a Certificate of Excellence
Ranked 46 out of a total of 164 graduates
Conferred June 2019
Certification

Occupational Experience

NeuroSymbolic AI Research Associate

Lab-V2, Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, USA
2023-Present

Pioneering NeuroSymbolic AI research, infusing symbolic reasoning into deep learning models
Managing a team of four researchers in conducting research in NeuroSymbolic AI
Authored (first author) and presented a peer-reviewed paper at CIKM 2024, Boise, Idaho, USA
Currently authoring (first author) a paper for NeurIPS 2025, San Diego, California, USA

Lab YouTube

Lab GitHub

Vice President Data Science

Frenn Analytics
Tel Aviv, Israel
2022

Founding the Data Science department at the HR-Tech focused start-up company in its early stages using various AI methods
Hiring and managing a team of entry-level data scientists for data analysis and designated inference research
Set the foundations for implementing predictive ML pipelines to use in-house company data to provide desired actionable insights for improving employee compensation models

Company LinkedIn

Company Facebook

AI/ML Research Associate and Teaching Assistant

Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva, Israel
2020-2023

Acting Teaching Assistant at two CS undergraduate courses - once at Intro to CS and two times at PPL, both at BGU

BGU Website

BGU CS Graduate Students Listing

Data Scientist

Dell Technologies
Beer Sheva, Israel
2019-2022

Working with a diverse team of data scientists, consultants and engineers from various locations; Israel, USA India and Slovakia
Worked 6 months on a Jira tickets duplication use case implemented by evaluating similarities between possible candidates
Developing more than 20 web-based data science pipelines used to implement, manage and display results of data science projects
Implemented pipelines for: Time Series analysis, EDA, Wordcloud, Topic Modeling, Chat Bot, Video transcript generation for seeking and questions answering, Project Management, Human Resources Allocation, Organization Exploration and a web-based portal that showcases these
Using mostly Python, utilizing the packages Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, Plotly, Dash, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow and PyTorch
Taking action; presenting various demonstrations of the designed tools, running workshops, presenting at seminars

Dell Technologies Website

Computer Chips Manufacturing Process Engineer

Intel Corporation
Kiryat Gat, Israel
2018-2019

Monitoring Intel’s various computer chips manufacturing processes
Identifying design and process malfunctions, analyzing performance statistics, issuing and verifying problems

Intel Website

Sales Agent (2011 - 2012), Sales Manager (2012-2013), Data Analyst (2013)

C.A.L. Credit Card Company with Matrix Corporation
Ramat Gan, Israel
2011-2013

Issuing and approving personal and business customer loans. Ranked the top salesman of 2011
Managing a sales team of 15 salesmen and women, providing a lucrative and efficient working environment
Taking part in the update and renovation procedure of the company’s CRM software

C.A.L Website

Publications

Error Detection and Constraint Recovery in Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification without Prior Knowledge

Presented October 2024
33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (‘CIKM’), Boise, Idaho, USA
Joshua Shay Kricheli, Khoa Vo, Aniruddha Datta, Spencer Ozgur and Paulo Shakarian

ACM

arXiv

Poster

Differential Games for Compositional Handling of Competing Control Tasks

March 2022
Master of Science in Computer Science Thesis
Advised by Prof. Shai Arogeti and Prof. Gera Weiss
Concluded, reviewed and approved, as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree

BGU Archive

Research Gate

Poster

Composition of Dynamic Control Objectives Based on Differential Games

June 2021
Conference Article, 1st Author; 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (‘MED’), Bari, Italy,
Joshua Shay Kricheli, Aviran Sadon, Shai Arogeti, Shimon Regev and Gera Weiss

IEEE

Research Gate

Python package

SNIC Bifurcation and its Application to MEMS

2016-2018
B.Sc. Final Engineering Project
Advised by Prof. Oriel Shoshani, ME BGU (IEEE | dblp)
Awarded A Certificate of Excellence

Teaching

Intro to Computer Science

Introductory programming course, Maths degree 1st year; Python language

Principles of Programming Languages (PPL)

Advanced programming course, CS undergraduate degree 2nd year; TypeScript, Scheme and Prolog Languages

GitHub

Selected Fellowships, Scholarships, Affiliations and Awards

Ph.D. ‘Galileo Project’ (GP) Affiliate, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, USA
2024 - Present
Employing AI in the systematic scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts

GP Affiliates

GP Website

GP @ Harvard

Harvard Center for Astrophysics

Ph.D. ‘Global Security Initiative’ (GSO) Full 4-Year Fellowship
2023 - 2027
ASU fellowship for security-focused research improving capabilities for high-profile national security

ASU Profile

GSI Website

M.Sc. ‘Israel Data Science Initiative’ and German ‘Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy’ Fully Funded Exchange Program
August - October 2022
Deep Science research at ‘Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt’ (DLR) - German Aerospace Center

CS BGU Announcement

Helmholtz-Israel Exchange

German Aerospace Center

DLR Data Science Institute Website

M.Sc. ‘Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center’ (‘ISTRC’) 1-Year Excellence Fellowship
2020-2021
Technion and Bar-Ilan Universities program with Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office and Council for Higher Education

CS BGU Announcement

ISTRC 2021 Scholarship Winners

ISTRC Website

M.Sc. ‘Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive’ (‘ABC’) Robotics 2-Year Fellowship
2019-2021
Ben Gurion University of the Negev initiative for innovative multidisciplinary robotics research fellowship for admitted teaching assistants

ABC M.Sc. Students Listing

ABC Website

B.Sc. ‘Educating for Excellence’ 1-Year Fellowship
2015-2016
Israeli foundation for educating children from its socioeconomic and geographic periphery toward academic and personal excellence

Educating for Excellence Website

B.Sc. ‘Israel Scholarship Education Foundation’ (‘ISEF’) 3-Year Fellowship
2014-2017
Academic excellence and leadership scholarship funded by investors from the United States

ISEF Website

ISEF Facebook

ISEF LinkedIn

B.Sc. Tel-Aviv University (TAU) 4-Year Full Scholarship
2014-2018
Full engineering degree academic scholarship

TAU Website

B.Sc. Israeli Ministry of Education Full 2-Year Scholarship
2014-2016
Bachelor students funding program issued by the Student Assistance Fund, Education Ministry office in the Israeli government

Israeli Ministry of Education Student Scholarships

Pre-Engineering ‘Achievements for Hi-Tech’ Program 1-Year Fellowship
2013-2014
Israeli government funding program for excellent honorably discharged soldiers from the Israeli Defence Forces

Achievements for Hi-Tech Program Website

Talks

Differential Games for Modular Handling of Competing Control Objectives
Presented on March 2023 (Hebrew)
Israel Conference on Robotics (ICR) 2023, Airforce Conference Center, Herzliya

Participation Record

Composition of Dynamic Control Objectives Based on Differential Games
Presented on June 2021 (English)
29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (‘MED’), Bari, Italy

Proceedings Table of Contents

Siamese Neural Networks for One-Shot Image Recognition
Gregory Koch, R. Z., & Salakhutdinov, R., 2015
Presented on May 2021 (Hebrew)
Advanced Seminar in Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Video

Presentation

Quantum Computing in Machine Learning
Presented on June 2020 (English)
Advanced Seminar for Developers, Data Science Team, DellEMC

Video

Presentation

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