Hello, my name is Shalev Lifshitz.

AI Researcher & Engineer

Striving to develop the future of technology. My goal is to help spark the next wave of human innovation and help humanity reach a new evolutionary step.

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Shalev Lifshitz

About Me

AI Researcher and Engineer

I'm an AI researcher and engineer striving to develop of technology. For the past 8 years, I've been engineering large ML systems and publishing frontier AI research with the Vector Institute, University of Toronto, Harvard, Oxford, and other leading AI institutions. I'm currently the co-founder of a stealth startup building security for AGI.

I've built state-of-the-art AI models that turn text into keyboard/mouse actions (NeurIPS 2023), created a system for scaling test-time compute to improve LLMs without additional training (CoLM 2025), and developed train-time RL algorithms that teach LLMs to reason during pretraining (LanGame @NeurIPS 2024). I've also created AI algorithms to help diagnose cancer, built the entire ML infrastructure for a top surgical navigation company, and invented new neural network architectures inspired by the human brain. In my free time, I enjoy coding systems from scratch in C/C++, including operating systems, 3D rendering engines, and game engines.

I first fell in love with the field of AI since it was the bridge between both of my passions: the brain and technology. Since then, I have spoken at various international conferences with the aim of educating and inspiring others to think about future of AI. To ensure a positive future for humanity alongside general AI, we must ask and explore these questions now.

My goal is to help spark the next wave of human innovation and help humanity reach a new evolutionary step. Most importantly, to keep humanity safe and secure our future alongside superintelligent AI systems.

Selected Research Works

Multi-Agent Verification: Scaling Test-Time Compute with Multiple Verifiers

Shalev Lifshitz, Sheila McIlraith, and Yilun Du
International Conference on Language Modeling, 2025

On Reward Functions For Self-Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Supervised Datasets

Thomas Foster*, Eltayeb Ahmed*, Jonathan Cook*, Shalev Lifshitz, Tim Rocktäschel, Jakob Foerster
NeurIPS Language Gamification Workshop, 2024

STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft

Shalev Lifshitz*, Keiran Paster*, Harris Chan, Jimmy Ba, Sheila McIlraith
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
Spotlight Paper

Gram Barcodes for Histopathology Tissue Texture Retrieval

Shalev Lifshitz, Abtin Riasatian, Hamid Tizhoosh
arXiv, 2021

Subtractive Perceptrons for Learning Images: A Preliminary Report

Hamid Tizhoosh, Shivam Kalra, Shalev Lifshitz, Morteza Babaie
International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, 2019

Selected Talks