Amit Lavon
Computer Scientist at WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolAmit Lavon is a computer scientist with 12 years of experience applying algorithms and data science to real-world problems, from accelerating computational biology pipelines to production backends at Google. He holds a PhD focused on large-scale genetic data analysis and has led interdisciplinary projects translating wastewater sequencing into actionable public-health insights. At Google he drove reliability and GDPR compliance for Google Trends, cutting incidents by 80% through data-driven prioritization and cross-team coordination. He has designed national AI curricula that bring high-school students from zero to training models in Python, and he mentors researchers in bioinformatics and statistics. Known for squeezing 10–100x speedups from scientific code, Amit combines theoretical rigor with pragmatic engineering to move research into robust, deployable systems. Based in Irvine, CA, he brings a rare blend of academic depth, product-grade software experience, and hands-on teaching.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The Hebrew University of JerusalemDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Weizmann Institute of Science
Hebrew, English, Swedish, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
programming-language10
python10
interpreter10
wordnet10
golang10
compiler10
genome10
goplus10
go10
odin10
pathogen10
godoc10
price-data10
genome-annotation10
rapid9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fluhus/biostuff
May 2014 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 209 commits, 126 pushes in 8 years 9 months
fluhus/prices
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:74 commits, 2 PRs, 149 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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