Itai Shapira
I'm a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Harvard. I am privileged to be advised by Prof. Ariel D. Procaccia.
I am a Siebel Scholar (Class of 2027) and a recipient of the 2025 JPMorgan Chase PhD Fellowship. I was also supported by the Nicole A. Chen and Karina A. Chen Graduate Student Research Fellowship. I am affiliated with the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making and serve on its Student Leadership Council.
Selected Publications
Is Sycophancy a Form of In-Context Updating?
How RLHF Amplifies Sycophancy
AI Alignment From Social Choice Perspectives
July 2026
Pairwise Calibrated Rewards for Pluralistic Alignment
SOAP: Improving and Stabilizing Shampoo using Adam
Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
(α) Authors listed alphabetically. † Equal contribution.
