CV
General Information
Full Name | Abraham (Avrahami) Israeli |
Address | Kfar-Saba, Israel |
Languages | Hebrew, English |
Education
- 2018-
Ph.D. Candidate in Data Science
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- Computational Social Science.
- Dissertation Title - Multi Modal Approaches for Modeling the Dynamics of Online Communities.
- Supervisor - Dr. Oren Tsur.
- 2015-2018
MSc in machine learning and data science
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- Regression models, machine learning.
- Thesis title - "Constraint learning based gradient boosting trees".
- Supervisors - Prof. Lior Rokach and Prof. Asaf Shabtai.
- 2007-2011
BSc in Industrial Engineering & Mgmt and BA in Economics
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Honors and Awards
- 2023
- Dean’s excellence list 2023.
- 2022
- NAACL WOAH workshop scholarship.
- 2020
- The Israeli President’s Prize for Excellence in Science and Innovation.
- 2019
- Full travel grant EurNLP 2019.
- 2010-2011
- Outstanding teaching assistant award (4 times).
- 2007-2011
- President’s list (6 times).
Experience
- 2020-Now
Research Fellow
The Data Science Institute (DSI), Reichman University, Israel.
- Leading all NLP and social-media research projects.
- Collaborations with the Israel Innovation Authority.
- Projects are typically consist of 6-10 researchers.
- Advising under-graduate and Master's students.
- 2018-2020
Senior Data Scientist
Advanced Analytics, Intel
- Responsible for developing NLP-based algorithms.
- Deployment to the production of sales and marketing applications.
- 2016-2018
Senior Data Scientist Manager
Advanced Analytics, Intel
- Responsible for the whole data science activity in the group.
- Direct manager of 6-7 data scientists.
- 2012 - 2016
Data Scientist
Advanced Analytics, Intel
- Developing machine learning solutions.
- Responsible for the education sessions in the field of artificial intelligence.
- 2010 - 2012
Research Assistant
IBM Labs, Haifa, Israel
- Responsible for developing regression prediction models.
- Water consumption prediction project, IBM ‘Smart Planet’ initiative.
Academic Interests
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Computational Social Science
- Online communities.
- Online Users' Behavior.
- Collective Actions.
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Hate Speech
- Hate Mongers Detection.
- Countering hate speech.
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Natural Language Processing
- LLMs and transformers.
- Text classification.
Other Noteworthy Activities and Skills
- Hobbies: Hiking, Trekking, running, basketball, carpentry.
- Others: Marathon runner, Tel Aviv 2014; Kilimanjaro climb, Tanzania 2019.