Idan’s research revolves around cognition in deep learning models, encompassing multimodal problems, attention, model perceptiveness, and model comprehension.

Idan is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science department at Tel-Aviv University, where he collaborates with Prof. Lior Wolf. Before this, he earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Technion, under the supervision of Prof. Alexander G. Schwing and Prof. Tamir Hazan. In 2016, he joined eBay as a researcher, applying computer vision and natural language processing solutions to enhance eBay's catalog. He then moved to Microsoft in 2019, becoming a researcher within the Search, Assistant, and Intelligence group. By 2020, he had assumed the role of Head of Research at Spot, a company later acquired by NetApp.