Asher Stern
Logic Team Leader at Aquant
Israel
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Top SchoolAsher Stern is a Logic Team Leader and Ph.D. computer scientist based in Israel with 13 years of experience building applied NLP and information retrieval systems for companies like Aquant, eBay, Yahoo and Microsoft. He combines deep research in semantic-level text understanding and recognizing textual entailment with hands-on engineering using Java, Python, Kotlin, and C/C++, and production ML stacks including PyTorch, TensorFlow and Hadoop. His work spans Apache UIMA/DKPro pipelines, Lucene/Solr search, CRF sequence models and modern deep-learning toolkits, enabling practical solutions for query interpretation, free-text privacy analysis and semantic search. Comfortable moving between research and product, he has repeatedly taken prototype techniques into deployed services and set foundations for teams and projects. An unusual strength is his long experience integrating academic-grade semantic models into large-scale IR and privacy-focused applications.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Open University of IsraelMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
textual10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
pos-tagger10
nlp10
crf10
python9
pos9
uima7
jupyter-notebook6
scikit-learn6
kotlin6
word-embeddings6
jupyterlab6
timeit6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
asher-stern/CRF
Nov 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 134 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
pospos-taggerconditionaltaggercrf
asher-stern/text-understanding
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 44 commits, 20 pushes in 7 months
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