Hila Dayfani is a Postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Digital Humanities and the Bible Department at the Hebrew University, the Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible and the University of Oxford.

Her research focuses on the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Pentateuchal Criticism. She is currently working on digitizing the Identification of Hitherto Unidentified Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments. The project utilizes AI-based system for scribe identification by digital paleography and develops a new algorithm for text search to identify as many unidentified Qumran fragments as possible.