CV

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Basics

Name Eilam Shapira
Label PhD Candidate at the Technion, IIT
Url https://eilamshapira.com
Email me@eilamshapira.com
Summary My research focuses on training large language model-based agents for non-cooperative games. It aims to develop agents capable of effective natural language communication in economic settings, under a variety of types of data availability, while using reinforcement learning and transfer learning techniques.

Education

  • 2023.06 - Present
    PhD Candidate
    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    Thesis: Generalization Methods for Training Large Language Model-Based Agents in Non-Cooperative Games.
    Advisors: Prof. Roi Reichart, Prof. Moshe Tenennholtz
  • 2022.03 - 2023.05
    MSc. as part of a direct PhD track
    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    The faculty of Data & Decision Sciences
    Advisors: Prof. Roi Reichart, Prof. Moshe Tenennholtz
  • 2018.10 - 2022.07
    BSc. Data Science & Engineering
    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    The faculty of Data & Decision Sciences
    Gained theoretical knowledge and practical experience in data science, machine learning, deep learning, statistics, and natural language processing.

Teaching

Work

  • 2025.6 - 2025.9

    Haifa, Israel

    Research Intern
    IBM Research
    Made AI Agents cheaper and faster.
  • 2020 - 2022

    Haifa, Israel

    Data Scientist (Student Position)
    Augury
    Designed and implemented learning algorithms to detect belt wear faults in industrial machinery, and improved automated classification of machinery fault types.

Awards

Volunteer

Languages

English
Fluent
Hebrew
Native

Interests

Research
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Language-based Games
AI Agents
Multi-Agent Machine Learning
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