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

  • Computational Social Science
    • Online communities.
    • Online Users' Behavior.
    • Collective Actions.
  • Hate Speech
    • Hate Mongers Detection.
    • Countering hate speech.
  • 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.