Yair Even-Zohar

Yair Even-Zohar is a Senior Lecturer specializing in artificial intelligence at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering since October 2023. Currently, Yair is also the Chief Data Scientist at ML Magicians Consulting since August 2020. Previous roles include Chief Data Scientist at Jeeng from January 2021 to January 2022, and Data Science Team Leader at Playtika from January 2018 to August 2020, where Yair led a team in designing and integrating large-scale machine learning problems. Earlier positions included Director of Research at Taykey, Sr. Data Scientist at salesforce.com, and Research Scientist at Viaccess-Orca, focusing on natural language processing and machine learning applications. Yair's extensive experience in data science and engineering began after completing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1997 to 2001.