AsiĀ Messica
VP Data Science
Tel Mond, Center District, Israel
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Top SchoolAsi Messica is a seasoned VP of Data Science and academic lecturer with over two decades of experience translating research-grade recommender systems, Bayesian methods, NLP and reinforcement learning into product impact across companies like Lightricks, Fiverr and SAP. He holds a PhD in Recommender Systems and concurrently teaches the subject at Reichman University while conducting research at Ben-Gurion University, blending hands-on product leadership with rigorous academic inquiry. Asi has repeatedly scaled data science teams and shipping personalization and search features that improve user engagement and business metrics, moving fluidly between R&D, product, and executive roles. Known for integrating information retrieval and probabilistic modeling into production systems, he brings both deep technical mastery and practical product sense to complex personalization problems. Based in Israel, he combines a background in physics and neural networks with an MBA in marketing, a mix that helps him align ML innovation with real-world user and market needs.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Physics Artifical Neuarl Networks, M.Sc. Physics Artifical Neuarl Networks at Tel Aviv UniversityMBA Marketing, MBA Marketing at Bar-Ilan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Systems and Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Systems and Software Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Github Skills (15)
gensim6
word2vec6
glove6
nlp5
interactive-brokers5
word-embeddings4
api4
natural-language-processing4
sentence-similarity4
brokers3
pythonic2
algotrading2
python2
quantitative-finance1
asyncio1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asnatm/deepLearningRecsys
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
asnatm/nlpc
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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