Uri Shalit's Homepage


I am a PhD student at the ICNC and at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
My advisors are Gal Chechik and Daphna Weinshall .
I am a recipient of the 2011 Google European Fellowship in Machine Learning.




Publications

"Online Learning in the Embedded Manifold of Low-rank Matrices" Uri Shalit, Daphna Weinshall and Gal Chechik,
Journal of Machine Learning Research (2012, accepted for publication)
[Paper: pdf]

"Online Learning in the Manifold of Low-Rank Matrices" Uri Shalit, Daphna Weinshall and Gal Chechik,
NIPS 2010 (spotlight presentation).
[Paper: pdf] [Supplementary material: pdf] [Source Code: tar] [Processed 20 Newsgroups dataset: tar]

"Large Scale Online Learning of Image Similarity Through Ranking" Gal Chechik, Varun Sharma*, Uri Shalit* and Samy Bengio,
Journal of Machine Learning Research (2010).
[Paper: pdf] [Project homepage]
(*) - Both authors contributed equally.

"An Online Algorithm for Large Scale Image Similarity Learning" Gal Chechik, Uri Shalit*, Varun Sharma*, and Samy Bengio,
NIPS 2009.
[Paper: pdf] [Project homepage]
(*) - Both authors contributed equally.

"Descending Systems Translate Transient Cortical Commands into a Sustained Muscle Activation Signal"
Uri Shalit, Nofya Singer, Mati Joshua and Yifat Prut.
Cerebral Cortex (2011)
[Paper]

Teaching

2009-2010, 2010-2011 - Computational Methods for Neuroscience (TA)
2010-2011, 2011-2012 - Neural Networks (TA)


Contact Info

Uri Shalit
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Edmond Safra Campus, Givat Ram
The Hebrew University
Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

e-mail: uri dot shalit at mail dot huji dot ac dot il