Assaf Toledo
Research Staff Member at IBM
Israel
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Top SchoolAssaf Toledo is a research staff member at IBM Research AI with nine years of experience at the intersection of natural language processing and multimedia systems. He specializes in argumentation and debating technologies using machine learning, building on a PhD in Computational Linguistics where he modeled textual entailment and explored semantics of gradable adjectives. His background uniquely blends deep linguistic theory and practical system engineering—he has led development of near real-time streaming servers with on-the-fly transcoding and protocol translation earlier in his career. Based in Israel, he leverages both academic rigor from postdoctoral work and hands-on engineering experience to move research into scalable prototypes. Colleagues can expect a researcher who comfortably navigates formal semantics, ML-driven NLP tasks, and complex multimedia infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Generative Linguistics, M.A., Generative Linguistics at The Hebrew University of JerusalemB.Sc, Math, Computer Science, B.Sc, Math, Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityPhD, Computational Linguistics, PhD, Computational Linguistics at Utrecht UniversityPostdoc, Natural Language Processing, Postdoc, Natural Language Processing at Bar-Ilan University
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (62)
python10
evaluation10
data-science10
statistics10
machine-learning10
benchmarking10
datasets10
ai10
data-analysis10
langchain9
chatgpt9
llm9
appveyor9
typescript9
natural-language-processing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/sib
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Implementation of sequential Information Bottleneck (sIB) in Python and in C++
Contributions:29 releases, 149 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 2 months
cpppython
IBM/vira-intent-discovery
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Infrastructure for evaluating intent detection over logs from the VIRA chatbot (https://vaxchat.org).
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes in 8 months
chatbot
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