Dan Ofer
AI Research Scientist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolDan Ofer is an AI research scientist and computational biologist with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and deep learning to medicine and bioinformatics, currently working on foundation models at Sheba-ARC while pursuing a PhD at the Hebrew University under Michal Linial and Dafna Shahaf. He has led applied research at Medtronic and SparkBeyond, delivering production-ready ML solutions across healthcare, finance, and chemical repurposing, and has multiple publications on protein prediction and novelty discovery in multimodal biological data. His work blends automated ML, interpretable deep learning, and novel sequence representations—he built the first in-silico neuropeptide precursor classifier (NeuroPID) and contributed a deep language-model approach to CAFA3. Based in Tel Aviv, he pairs rigorous quantitative skills with practical product experience and a creative streak as an avid photographer, reflecting a curious, cross-disciplinary approach to AI in medicine.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology at The Hebrew University of JerusalemHigh School + Post academic studies; Leadership training Educational Leadership and Administration General, High School + Post academic studies; Leadership training Educational Leadership and Administration General at Hof Hasharon + Mechinat HanegevMaster of Science (MSc) Neurobiology and Behavior, Master of Science (MSc) Neurobiology and Behavior at The Hebrew University
Hebrew, python, java, English, matlab, r, scala
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Github Skills (200)
language-model10
sentence10
arabic-nlp10
distilbert10
datasets10
gradient-boosting10
lightgbm10
topic-modeling10
corenlp10
nlp10
sentence-embeddings10
gensim10
kaggle10
data-science10
text-classification10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ddofer/ProFET
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
extractionfeature-extractiondatasetmachine-learningdatasets
ddofer/talk
May 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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