Ayala Allon
Senior Data Scientist
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolAyala Allon is a Senior Data Scientist based in Tel Aviv with a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and over a decade of experience building production-ready NLP, deep learning, and advanced analytics solutions. She has a strong research pedigree—multiple peer-reviewed publications and prestigious fellowships (Fulbright, Zuckerman, Minducate)—which she leverages to design robust, statistically grounded models for noisy, unstructured data such as job posts, resumes, and social media. At retrain.ai she led model development from data collection to deployment, introduced evaluation frameworks at scale, and helped onboard and shape a data science practice; she now continues that trajectory at Cyera. Beyond model engineering, Ayala applies cognitive-science insights to feature design and interpretability, and she routinely experiments with LLM embeddings and prompt engineering to improve similarity and summarization tasks. Colleagues describe her as insightful, detail-oriented, and an effective communicator who thrives both independently and as a team leader.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Direct Track Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Direct Track Cognitive Neuroscience at Tel Aviv UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA (Cum Luda) Psychology and Interdisciplinary studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA (Cum Luda) Psychology and Interdisciplinary studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Achva Academic College
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ayalaallon/prepdat
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:125 commits, 2 PRs, 93 pushes in 3 years 7 months
experimental-datastatisticsstatisticalstatistical-analysis
ayalaallon/prepdat-Example-Data
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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