AI researcher and technology leader with 30+ years bridging academia and industry.

  • Applied AI researcher. Work across computer vision, text and speech processing, signal processing, generative AI, recommender systems, and big data.
  • Product innovator. Design and define AI products with customers: shape problem framing and translate findings into intellectual property, systems, and product opportunities.
  • Hands-on builder. Build systems and teams; manage cross-functional data-science and engineering groups while staying hands-on.
  • Project-based educator. Teach graduate and undergraduate LLM and GenAI courses, design curricula, and supervise B.Sc. / M.Sc. projects.

Leadership & Research Experience

Faculty Member - HIT, School of Computer Science

2024-Present

Conduct applied AI research in generative AI, large language models, vision, and signals; created hands-on, project-based course series on LLMs, GenAI, and diffusion models taught across HIT (School of Computer Science and Digital Healthcare Department) and Bar-Ilan University (undergraduate and graduate programs); supervise M.Sc. students in Afeka College of Engineering's Intelligent Systems program.

Head of Data Science - Questar / SafeRide Technologies

2020-2024

Built and hired the data science team; led big-data AI for vehicle telematics across signal, audio, graph, anomaly detection, and onboard-model work; led OEM-partner projects including engine-health monitoring (Ford), steering-by-wire monitoring (Hyundai Mobis), in-cabin acoustic fault detection (Renault), fuel-consumption modeling (Aptiv), and fault-sequence analysis (M.A.N.); engaged directly with customers to shape requirements; led the definition of a no-code product for onboard monitoring models.

VP of Artificial Intelligence - harmon.ie

2019-2020

Led AI for an enterprise document-management product designed to help organizations handle the growing amount of information in Office 365; managed a cross-functional data-science and engineering team and shaped the research agenda across large-scale text understanding, user-behavior modeling from Office-graph signals, and recommendation under limited supervision.

Head of AI Research - Motorola Solutions, Israel Innovation Center

2015-2019

Built and led the research team at Motorola Solutions' first AI lab in the Innovation Center; designed and led execution of the roadmap across video, text, speech, and public-safety AI; established internal cross-functional partnerships and academia-industry collaborations funded by Israel Innovation Authority programs and binational grants.

AVP Data Science - Citi Israel Innovation Lab

2013-2015

Led financial data-science projects: bond-price prediction for auctions, FX causality analysis and trader-informativeness classification, anomaly detection for trader compliance auditing, and trade-to-wire matching via correlation and constraint optimization.

Founder / CTO / R&D and algorithm leadership - SearchNG, CloudTuner, MPCode, Tegrity, AppiVision, Amdocs, Comverse, earlier roles

1991-2012

Founded ventures and led hands-on intelligent-system work in search, multimedia, video streaming, wireless communications, telecom, predictive modeling, handwriting recognition, imaging, inspection, and signal acquisition.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Weizmann Institute of Science · computer vision and machine learning

2013

Ph.D., Computer Science - Tel Aviv University · machine learning and signal processing

2012

M.Sc. in Management - Polytechnic Institute of NYU · technology management

2006

M.Sc., Computer Science - Weizmann Institute of Science · computer vision

2004

B.Sc., Computer Science - Technion

1995