Data Scientist

Afresh Technologies — San Francisco, CA — Feb 2019 - Oct 2019

Afresh is reinventing the food supply chain process to reduce food waste and costs.

  • Helped launch new customer by developing pipeline to ingest and fully integrate their data with our system -- including cleaning, processing, transforming and investigating their data

  • Developed and implemented algorithm to match same items together that are tracked under different item IDs, resulting in a 5.3% increase in the number of items by total sales that we predict on (~$5.3million in sales dollar amount)

Data Scientist

Radius Intelligence — San Francisco, CA — May 2017 - Feb 2019

Radius Intelligence seeks to power data intelligence across all B2B applications, channels, and users.

  • Developed and defined productionized research and prototype models in Apache Spark and Python to automate data processing and analysis

  • Replaced rules-based matching system with machine learning algorithm improving the performance from 82% to 96% precision rate – while also refactoring code to make potential future updates easier to implement

  • Refined phone validation model to make it more scalable – now able to run 42 customers in the time it took to run 1 customer, while also improving accuracy metrics

  • Helped start up Radius Tech Blog by writing first article for it (https://bit.ly/2LxOGrA)

Graduate Researcher

Spatial Perception and Memory Lab, Technion — Haifa, Israel — Mar 2013 - Jul 2016

Worked with Dori Derdikman, aiming to understand neuronal basis for spatial representation in the brain.

  • In charge of conceptualization, methodology, and implementation of project

    investigating neural activity in freely behaving rodents

  • Methods used included electrophysiological recordings, chemogenetic approaches, and immunohistochemistry/histology

  • Tracked neuron firing patterns in MATLAB through statistical analysis of action

    potentials

Assistant Researcher

Nanobiotechnology Lab, Tel Aviv University — Ramat Aviv, Israel — Sept 2011 - Feb 2012

Worked under Ehud Gazit on various nanotechnology research projects.

  • Synthesized protein nanospheres for further research on effectiveness of use in drug delivery systems

  • Improved procedure for formation of peptide nanotubes with wire casting

  • Operated Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) for observation of nanoparticles

Assisted Dr. Jaime A. Pineda on research project focused on mirror neuron system (MNS) and its connection to autism spectrum disorders (ASD)

  • Trained patients to control own brain activity through EEG and visual feedback

  • Reviewed and critiqued scientific journal articles before publication

Undergrad Researcher

Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, UC San Diego — La Jolla, CA — June 2010 - June 2011