I am a postdoctoral associate at MIT CSAIL, adivsed by Prof. Antonio Torralba.
I completed my PhD at Tel Aviv University, where I was advised by Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or and Prof. Ariel Shamir.
My work draws inspiration from design, art, and cognitive science. I develop generative models for visual communication and aim to build computational tools that can augment and co-participate in human creative workflows.
I am particularly interested in the hidden representations of large vision-language models, and how their priors can be used to enhance the way humans and machines communicate and convey meaning through visual elements.
I also enjoy drawing and sculpting in my free time :)
Email: yaelvink@mit.edu | yaelvi116@gmail.com
Office: 45-733D