Itay Itzhak

About

I am a PhD candidate at the Technion, co-advised by Yonatan Belinkov (Technion) and Gabriel Stanovsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

My research focuses on evaluating and interpreting LLMs, particularly the reasoning and decision-making processes that shape their behavior. I combine behavioral and representational analyses to study model biases, behavioral tendencies, and how they emerge from training.

I previously interned at Meta AI, where I studied attention dynamics in translation models. I completed my M.Sc. at Tel Aviv University with Omer Levy, investigating how token-level spelling information is encoded in embedding matrices. Beyond my research, I co-organized the GEM workshop at ACL 2025, which promotes best practices for evaluating natural language generation systems across languages and tasks.

I welcome collaborations and enjoy discussing research, language models, and related ideas. Feel free to reach out via email!