CV

My CV are available as PDF here.

Academic positions

• 2026-present: Postdoctoral Fellow (Rothschild Fellowship), Computational Cognitive Science (CoCoSci) lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, The Hebrew University, 2026
• M.S. in Statistics and ML, Magna Cum Laude, Tel Aviv University, 2019
• B.Sc. in Statistics, Tel Aviv University, 2015
• B.A. in Economics, Tel Aviv University, 2015

Awards

• 2026: Runner-Up Best PhD Thesis Award, Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence (IAAI)

Publications

A (dis-) information theory of revealed and unrevealed preferences

Alon et al. (2022). "A (dis-) information theory of revealed and unrevealed preferences." Neurips 2022 workshop on information-theoretic principles in cognitive systems.

Between prudence and paranoia: Theory of Mind gone right, and wrong

Alon et al. (2023). "Between prudence and paranoia: Theory of Mind gone right, and wrong." First Workshop on Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents.

A (dis-) information Theory of Revealed and Unrevealed Preferences: Emerging Deception and Skepticism via Theory of Mind

Alon et al. (2023). "A (dis-) information Theory of Revealed and Unrevealed Preferences: Emerging Deception and Skepticism via Theory of Mind " Open Mind 1-17

(Mal)adaptive Mentalizing in the Cognitive Hierarchy, and Its Link to Paranoia

Alon et al. (2024). "(Mal)adaptive Mentalizing in the Cognitive Hierarchy, and Its Link to Paranoia " Computational Psychiatry 8-1

Mind Your Theory: Theory of Mind Goes Deeper Than Reasoning

Wagner, Alon, Barnby and Abend. (2025). "Mind Your Theory: Theory of Mind Goes Deeper Than Reasoning" Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 26658–26668

Aleph-IPOMDP: Mitigating Deception in a Cognitive Hierarchy with Off-Policy Counterfactual Anomaly Detection

Alon, N., Barnby, J. M., Sarkadi, S., Schulz, L., & Rosenschein, J. S. (2026). "ℵ-IPOMDP: Mitigating Deception in a Cognitive Hierarchy with Off-Policy Counterfactual Anomaly Detection." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 85.

Theory-of-Mind in Partially Observed, Mixed-Motive Games

Alon, N. (2026). "Theory-of-Mind in Partially Observed, Mixed-Motive Games." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(48), 41030-41031.

Work experience

• 2016-2019: Senior Data Scientist
  • Optimove, Data Science Lab
  • Developing and deploying Bayesian campaign analysis
  • Developing and deploying Recommendation-System
  • Developing and deploying MAB based algorithm for customer journeys optimization
• 2015-2016: Data Scientist
  • IBM, GBS
  • Cyber and Real time team

Skills

• Programming language:
  • Python: high level
  • R: high level
  • C#: intermediate level
  • C++: intermediate level