About

I'm a Computer Science PhD student at UT Austin working with Prof. Leqi Liu.
My research focuses on how can we build personal AI systems that truly understand us.
This question is far from trivial.
Specifically, I'm interested in building multimodal agentic systems that understand people over time, reason across modalities, and adapt to support human thinking.
My work draws inspiration from Theory of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Vision, Bayesian Nonparametric Models, Reinforcement Learning, and Dynamical Systems.

Before that, I was a visiting student at the Stanford Vision Lab supervised by Prof. Jiajun Wu. I obtained my master's degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, working at the Vision, Inference, and Learning (VIL) Lab supervised by Prof. Oren Freifeld.

Teaching

  • Elements of Data Visualization - Spring 2026/Fall 2025
  • Principles of Programming Languages (Head of TA) - Fall 2023
  • Introduction to Numerical Analysis - Fall 2022
  • Computer Vision: Models, Learning and Inference - Spring 2021
  • Principles of Programming Languages - Spring 2020

Contact

Office: Gates Dell Complex, UT Austin, TX
Email: dorlit@utexas.edu