Machine Learning |
Causal Inference |
Clinical Decision Support |

Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University
Visiting Research Scientist @ Google

Portrait of Uri Shalit

ML for healthcare

ML + causal methods

Humans with AI

About

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University, and a visiting research scientist at Google. Previously, I was a professor at the Technion Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, and before that I was a postdoctoral researcher in David Sontag’s Clinical Machine Learning Lab, first at NYU and later at MIT. I did my PhD in the Hebrew University under the guidance of Gal Chechik and Daphna Weinshall.

My research has three threads: (1) applying machine learning and causal inference to healthcare, building decision-support tools from large-scale health data; (2) developing methods and theory at the ML–causal inference interface, with an emphasis on individual-level (heterogeneous) effects and policy learning; and (3) bringing causal ideas into core machine learning, including robust learning, domain adaptation, and human–AI cooperation.

Research Group

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Members

  • Uri Shalit — PI
  • Naama Dekel-Bird — Research Scientist
  • Tomer Meir — PhD Student
  • Omer Noy Klein — PhD Student
  • Dovid Parnas — MSc Student

Clinical collaboratos

  • Oren Caspi — Director of the Heart Failure Unit, Rambam Medical Center
  • Danny Eytan — Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Unit, Rambam Medical Center
  • Amit Gruber — Clinical Fellow, Rambam Medical Center

Alumni

  • Rom Gutman — PhD 2025, now at Clalit Research Institute
  • Bar Eini-Porat (joint supervision with Danny Eytan) — PhD 2025, now postdoc at The Technion
  • Ori Linial — PhD 2025, now at Google Research
  • Ron Tsibulski — MSc 2024, now at Google Research
  • Niv Kook — MSc 2024
  • Yannay Alon — MSc 2024
  • Hadar Rosenwald — MSc 2024, now at Sunbit
  • Marah Ghoummaid — MSc 2024, now at Bosch Research
  • Ely Erez — MSc 2024, now resident at Yale School of Medicine
  • Ellie Rosenman — MSc 2022
  • Shimon Sheiba — MSc 2020, now at Sunbit
  • Tom Beer — MSc 2020, now at Technology Innovation Institute

Past mentored collaborators

  • Hagai Rossman — now at Pheno.AI and MBZUAI
  • Amir Feder — now at Hebrew University and Google
  • Yoav Wald — now at NYU
  • Andrew Jesson — now at TensorZero

Selected Publications

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Talks