Short Bio

Roei Herzig is a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley and a Research Scientist at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. He is advised by Professor Trevor Darrell and works closely with Professors Jitendra Malik, Shankar Sastry, and Deva Ramanan. Roei earned his PhD from Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Professor Amir Globerson. His research develops models and learning algorithms for Physical AI, grounded in structural priors, using robots as the ultimate testbed. He has been recognized with several distinctions, including the 2023 Dissertation Award for the best AI thesis in Israel and the Israeli Excellence in Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.