Shirli Di Castro Shashua
Shirli is a senior AI scientist at Intuit, where she brings cutting-edge innovation to life through generative models and agentic AI. Her areas of expertise span reinforcement learning, LLM training and evaluation, NLP, classical machine learning, and the design of intelligent agents.
Shirli holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technion, specializing in Reinforcement Learning, and a B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Ben Gurion University.
Sessions
09-09
13:00
20min
How I Failed to Build My WhatsApp Agent - But Learned to Love the Challenge
Shirli Di Castro Shashua
I tried to build a WhatsApp agent to find my friends’ buried recommendations and tips - and failed spectacularly. But I learned more than I expected. This talk shares the journey, the tools, and why side projects are the best way to grow.
Hall 7