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President of the Board of Directors @ New Sector Alliance New Sector Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate social change by strengthening organizations and developing leaders. Programmer @ Rafael and Technion I worked as a programmer at Rafael on automatic target recognition and at Technion on orientation detection algorithms for the Technion's...

President of the Board of Directors @ New Sector Alliance New Sector Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate social change by strengthening organizations and developing leaders. Programmer @ Rafael and Technion I worked as a programmer at Rafael on automatic target recognition and at Technion on orientation detection algorithms for the Technion's satellite. During that time, I developed new algorithms in computer vision and coded in C/C++ and in Matlab. From 1997 to 2000 (3 years) Haifa, IsraelDirector, Applied Science @ Amazon I lead Search Quality - a team of 100+ engineers, scientists, and TPMs across Palo Alto, Seattle and Barcelona, who worked on improving Amazon's search using AI and machine learning. During my tenure, the team launched algorithmic improvements to product search that resulted in revenue increases of billions of dollars for Amazon.The team was organized along the following lines:* Search Relevance: Use machine learning to learn how to rank Amazon products* Query Understanding: Use NLP and AI to understand the intent behind search queries* Matching Quality: Use deep learning to determine fit of search results* Search Parsing and Annotation: Tag individual query words to understand their meaning* Search Insights: Draw insights about Amazon's search experience including collecting and analyzing human judgments data.* Technical Program Management: Team of TPMs responsible for coordinating and tracking projects and goals. From 2017 to 2019 (2 years) Palo Alto, California, United StatesDirector, Product Innovation @ Netflix I was the product lead for two of Netflix’s most important projects: - Homepage personalization: deciding which movies to show to users and in what order.- Asset optimization: deciding which assets (images, trailers, etc.) to use in order to best represent movies. From 2016 to 2017 (1 year) Los Gatos, California, United StatesSenior Manager, Engineering @ LinkedIn I lead LinkedIn's news-feed team, including 3 sub-teams working on machine learning modeling, data engineering, and online infrastructure. From 2013 to 2016 (3 years) Mountain View, California, United StatesAssociate Professor, Computing (with tenure) @ Georgia Institute of Technology I conducted research in machine learning including recommendation systems, graphical models, computer vision, and natural language processing. I was granted tenure and promoted in 2011, and in 2012 I was appointed associate director of FODAVA, a national consortium of research institutions in the area of data and visual analytics. I also won first place in three Pascal VOC Image Segmentation Challenges (2010, 2011, 2012). From 2008 to 2013 (5 years) Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesAssistant Professor, Statistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering @ Purdue University I conducted research in machine learning including natural language processing, graphical models, and statistical models for ranked data. I received the NSF Faculty Early Career Award and a university teaching award. From 2005 to 2008 (3 years) West Lafayette, Indiana, United StatesPostdoctoral Researcher and Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University I conducted research in machine learning methods including ranking models, classification models, and natural language processing. I was awarded the Siebel scholarship and received the LTI best presentation award. From 2000 to 2005 (5 years) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesStaff Sergeant @ Israel Defense Forces Tank crew-member and tank commander in the IDF From 1993 to 1996 (3 years) Director, Engineering @ Google I work on ensuring the security, privacy, trust, and safety of mobile apps on Android, the world's most popular operating system. My projects include both cloud based systems and on-device AI and machine learning models. Mountain View, California, United States