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
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.
