Yael Hitron
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, working with Prof. Ronen Eldan and Prof. Itai Benjamini. Prior to that, I obtained my Ph.D. and M.Sc. also at the Weizmann Institute, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Merav Parter and Prof. Uriel Feige, respectively. Before that, I completed my B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University (BGU).
My current research focuses on both small and large language models. I am also interested in theoretical computer science, particularly in studying biological neural networks from an algorithmic perspective, and distributed algorithms with byzantine adversaries.
Publications
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Secure Distributed Network Optimization Against Eavesdroppers
Yael Hitron, Merav Parter and Eylon Yogev
ITCS 2023 -
Broadcast CONGEST Algorithms Against Eavesdroppers
Yael Hitron, Merav Parter and Eylon Yogev
DISC 2022 [paper]
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Broadcast CONGEST Algorithms Against Adversarial Edges
Yael Hitron and Merav Parter
DISC 2021 [arxiv] [talk]
Best Student Paper Award at DISC'21 -
General CONGEST Compilers Against Adversarial Edges
Yael Hitron and Merav Parter
DISC 2021 [PDF] [talk]
Best Student Paper Award at DISC'21 -
Spiking Neural Networks Through the Lens of Streaming Algorithms
Yael Hitron, Cameron Musco and Merav Parter
DISC 2020 [arxiv] [talk] -
Random Sketching, Clustering, and Short-Term Memory in Spiking Neural Networks
Yael Hitron, Nancy Lynch, Cameron Musco and Merav Parter
ITCS 2020 [paper] -
The Computational Cost of Asynchronous Neural Communication
Yael Hitron, Merav Parter and Gur Perri
ITCS 2020 [paper] -
Counting to Ten with Two Fingers: Compressed Counting with Spiking Neurons
Yael Hitron and Merav Parter
ESA 2019 [arxiv] -
The Ordered Covering Problem
Uriel Feige and Yael Hitron
Algorithmica 2016 [paper]
Teaching
Lecturer at the Google Reichman Tech School, 2022.
TA at the Reichman University, teaching the following courses.
- Data Structures, 2018-2021.
- Introduction to Computer Science, 2017.
Contact me
Office: Jacob Ziskind Building, room 147 Weizmann Institute of Science.