Haneen Najjar

Haneen Najjar

Researcher & trustworthy ML engineer focusing on adversarial robustness and fairness, AI safety and security

About

Haneen Najjar

I work in Trustworthy Machine Learning, AI Safety and Security focusing on adversarial robustness, fairness, and security-critical ML systems, with an emphasis on computer vision, LLms and multi agent systems.

Research Experience

Research Intern — COoperative Machine Intelligence for People-Aligned Safe Systems (COMPASS)
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
2026

Conducting research in AI safety and people-aligned machine intelligence, focusing on robustness and safety properties of modern ML systems under realistic threat models.


Academic Timeline

PhD in Computer Science (ongoing)
Tel Aviv University
Oct 2025 – Present
Research area: Trustworthy Machine Learning, AI safety, adversarial robustness, fairness, security-critical ML.


MSc in Computer Science
Tel Aviv University
2023 – 2025 (GPA 95)
Focus: Trustworthy ML, adversarial learning, fairness, security, and graph neural networks
Thesis: Sy-FAR: Symmetry-based Fair Adversarial Robustness
(accepted to USENIX Security 2026)


MBA (Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship)
Tel Aviv University
2020 – 2021
Focus: technology strategy, leadership, and entrepreneurship


BSc in Computer Science & Mathematics
University of Haifa
2013 – 2017

Industry Experience

Hailo Technologies, Tel Aviv, Israel
Applied Machine Learning Engineer — Pretrained Models & Optimization
Jan 2023 – Oct 2025
Led deep learning model development and optimization for edge-AI deployment.
Built training pipelines, model compression workflows, and deployment-ready optimization.


NVIDIA, Tel Aviv, Israel
Software Team Lead (Jul 2019 – Jan 2023) · Software Engineer (Oct 2017 – Jun 2019)
Oct 2017 – Jan 2023
Led and managed engineering teams working on high-performance networking software and infrastructure.
Bridged large-scale systems engineering with ML deployment constraints in production environments.

Teaching & Mentorship

Mentor — C/C++, Data Structures and Algorithms
University of Haifa
2015 – 2017

Volunteering

Alice Code Technology Program — 2022 – Present
Technical mentorship and career guidance for women transitioning into the tech industry.


Undergraduate Mentorship Program, Hi-Tech — 2019 – Present
Mentoring computer science undergraduates entering the tech industry.

  • GitHub: https://github.com/haneenn24
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haneen-najjar2494