Ari Pakman
I am a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the IEM Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. I received my PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research is in deep learning and probabilistic machine learning, with a focus on Bayesian methods, Monte Carlo sampling, and amortized inference, with applications ranging from computational chemistry to neuroscience.
Openings: I am looking for highly motivated PhD students.
Support
- Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science & Technology, Israel-France Collaboration Grant, 2025-2028
- ISF Grant 2023-2027
- BGU Data Science Research Grant, 2022 and 2023 (both with Prof. Oren Freifeld)
news
| Apr 30, 2026 | Our paper Revisiting the Volume Hypothesis with Lior Kreimer and Yakir Berchenko was accepted to ICML 2026. |
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| Nov 3, 2025 | Our research was awarded a grant from the Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science & Technology under the Maimonide Israel-France Collaboration. |
| May 1, 2025 | Our paper Clustering via Self-Supervised Diffusion was accepted to ICML 2025. Congratulations to Roy Uziel, Irit Chelly and Oren Freifeld. |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Two papers accepted at AISTATS 2025. Congratulations to my students Yarden Cohen and Irit Chelly. |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Our research was awarded a grant from the Israel Science Foundation. |