Dina Svetlitsky
ML Research Engineer at Taboola
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolDina Svetlitsky is an ML research engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and Bioinformatics and over a decade of experience bridging academic research and production ML at Taboola. She has a strong track record in designing scalable data-mining algorithms and pipelines—most notably improving bacterial genome classification accuracy by 9% over prior benchmarks—and publishes regularly in top computational biology venues. Comfortable across Python, Java and ML tooling, she combines feature-selection, interpretable models and NLP techniques to solve domain-specific problems and deliver researcher-friendly tools. A seasoned educator and collaborator, she has revamped course materials and built a desktop app used by biologists, showing a rare mix of rigorous theory, practical software delivery and user-focused design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science - Bioinformatics, GPA: 95.4, Thesis: 99, Graduated with honors, Master's Degree, Computer Science - Bioinformatics, GPA: 95.4, Thesis: 99, Graduated with honors at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English, Russian
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Github Skills (25)
pattern-mining10
gwt10
desktop-application10
genomes10
microbial-genomics10
discovery10
genomics10
data-science9
pandas9
javafx9
java9
manipulation9
python9
graphical-user-interface9
sql-database9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dinasv/CSBFinder
Mar 2017 - Nov 2021
A Java Desktop application with a graphical user interface for the discovery of colinear syntenic blocks across thousands microbial genomes
Contributions:14 releases, 409 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 9 months
genomesjavafxmicrobial-genomicsuser-interfacegene-order
shakedna1/wspc_rep
Jul 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:8 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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