Shlomi Hod

I’m an associate researcher at Weizenbaum Institute. I recently completed my CS Ph.D. at Boston University, under the supervision of Prof. Ran Canetti.

I’m working on deployable responsible AI. My current research interests include: Technical AI governance, Deployable differential privacy, Supporting evidence-based AI and privacy policymaking.

In February 2024, together with the Israeli Ministry of Health, we released a differentially private synthetic dataset of the National Live Birth Registry.

For the last few years, I have taught courses in Responsible AI, Law, Ethics & Society at various institutions including Boston University, UC Berkeley, Cornell Tech, Bocconi University, Tel Aviv University and the Technion. Our materials are available for faculty here. In August 2023, I taught a two-day congressional workshop for US Congress staffers based on our course.

In 2025 I was a senior researcher at the German Institute of Employment Research (IAB) working on data privacy. During the summer of 2024, I was an OpenDP fellow at Harvard University. Between September 2023 and August 2024, I visited Columbia University to collaborate with Prof. Rachel Cummings. In the summer of 2022, I interned at Twitter Cortex where I leveraged human-in-the-loop research to improve toxicity models. In 2020-2021, I was an Associated Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin. In the summer of 2019, I did a research internship at the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley, working on neural network interpretability.

In my previous life, I was a social entrepreneur – co-founder of the Israeli Cyber Education Center. There, I led the development of nationwide educational programs in computing for kids and teens. The center aims to increase social mobility of underrepresented groups in tech, such as women, minorities, and individuals from the suburbs of Israel. I co-authored a Computer Network textbook with a tutorial approach (in Hebrew). Before that, I was an algorithmic research team leader in cybersecurity.