I study the mathematical foundations of machine learning, focusing on generalization, combinatorial dimensions, and sample complexity.

I am a PhD student in mathematics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, advised by Professor Shay Moran.

Publications

Uniform convergence at optimal rate and scale

Noga Alon, Steve Hanneke, Shay Moran, and Tom Waknine

Preprint · 2026

Scale-Sensitive Shattering: Learnability and Evaluability at Optimal Scale

Shashaank Aiyer, Yishay Mansour, Shay Moran, Han Shao, and Tom Waknine

NeurIPS 2026 Oral

Margin in Abstract Spaces

Yair Ashlagi, Roi Livni, Shay Moran, and Tom Waknine

COLT 2026

Agnostic Learning under Targeted Poisoning: Optimal Rates and the Role of Randomness

Bogdan Chornomaz, Yonatan Koren, Shay Moran, and Tom Waknine

NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight

Spherical Dimension

Bogdan Chornomaz, Shay Moran, and Tom Waknine

COLT 2025

On Reductions and Representations of Learning Problems in Euclidean Spaces

Bogdan Chornomaz, Shay Moran, and Tom Waknine

STOC 2025

List Sample Compression and Uniform Convergence

Steve Hanneke, Shay Moran, and Tom Waknine

COLT 2024

Avoiding Small Monochromatic Distances

Tom Waknine

PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research · 2022