Elad Sharony

Elad Sharony

Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Technion · Research Intern @ NVIDIA Research

I am a Ph.D. student at the Technion, advised by Prof. Shie Mannor in the (RL)² Lab. My research focuses on reinforcement learning and optimization for dynamical systems.

I leverage vision-language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) to enhance data efficiency, exploration, and decision-making, enabling robust perception, reasoning, and generalization in robotics, autonomous systems, and high-dimensional environments.

I am currently a Research Intern at NVIDIA Research. Previously, I completed my B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Technion (Summa Cum Laude), and worked as a Control Engineer at Intel and as a Research Intern at Bosch Center for AI (BCAI).

News

Started research internship at NVIDIA Research.

MISO accepted to ICRA 2026! See you in Vienna.

Started research internship at Bosch AI (BCAI).

Started Ph.D. at Technion, advised by Prof. Shie Mannor.

Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning

Sample efficiency, exploration, System 1 & 2 thinking

Optimization

Dynamical systems, control, amortized optimization

Foundation Models

VLMs and LLMs for robotics and autonomy

Publications

Teaching

Teaching Assistant
Control Theory, Control System Design, Control Systems 1
Technion
Project Supervision
Robotic Knot-Tying Skills, RL in Isaac Simulator
Technion

Services

Reviewer
CoRL 2025, ICLR 2026, ICML 2026, NeurIPS 2026
Technical Editor
"Reinforcement Learning: Foundations" — S. Mannor, Y. Mansour, A. Tamar (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

Education

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technion — Israel Institute of Technology
2022 — Present (Expected 2027) Advisor: Prof. Shie Mannor
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering
Technion — Israel Institute of Technology
2018 — 2022 Summa Cum Laude, GPA: 94.9

Honors & Awards