Chen Yanai
Senior Data Scientist
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolChen Yanai is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of experience applying deep learning, NLP, and reinforcement learning to real-world problems across startups, industry, and defense. With an M.Sc. from Ben-Gurion University, he has led teams and projects end-to-end—from research and training language models from scratch to deploying production-grade systems and monitoring live performance. He was a founding data hire at retrain.ai, building weak-supervision pipelines and large annotated datasets, and now contributes to security-focused ML at Charm Security. Prior roles in Unit 9900 and CBG show strong expertise in geospatial analytics, anomaly and fraud detection, and managing high-stakes, operational teams. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends academic rigor with practical engineering ownership, often surfacing simple, effective solutions in complex data environments.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Software and Information System Engineering Machine Learning and Data Science, Masters in Software and Information System Engineering Machine Learning and Data Science at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chenyanai/Q-Ball
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
NitzanMaarek/IR2018
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:74 pushes in 1 month
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