Gershon Celniker
Research Lab Group Manager at General Motors
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolGershon Celniker is a research-focused AI and data leader with 13 years of experience building and managing applied ML and data science teams across industry and academia. Currently Research Lab Group Manager at General Motors, he has led data and AI research at CLEW, Check Point, Verint and startups, bridging deep technical R&D with product and business impact. His background in computational biology and bioinformatics (Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann) informs a rigorous, experimental approach to complex data problems and model validation. Gershon combines hands-on algorithm development and PhD-level research experience with proven people leadership, hiring and scaling multidisciplinary teams. He’s comfortable moving models from exploratory research into production-grade systems in enterprise settings, and has a history of founding and teaching roles that reflect strong communication and mentorship skills. Based in Tel Aviv, he is equally at home in lab notebooks and deployment pipelines, often turning domain knowledge from life sciences into practical ML solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, B.Sc., Computational Biology, Bioinformatics at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyResearch Fellowship, Bioinformatics, and Computer Science, Research Fellowship, Bioinformatics, and Computer Science at Weizmann Institute of ScienceM.Sc., Bioinformatics and Medicinal chemistry, M.Sc., Bioinformatics and Medicinal chemistry at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (29)
classification10
model-compression10
cross-validation10
data-validation9
eda9
data-integrity9
model-comparison9
data-visualization8
stability8
fairness-ml8
machine-learning8
validation8
data-science7
data-exploration7
data-quality7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gershonc/mlflow_showcase
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
gershonc/octopus-ml
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
A collection of handy ML and data visualization and validation tools. Go ahead and train, evaluate and validate your ML models and data with minimal effort.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 93 commits in 1 year 11 months
fairness-mlpythondata-integritydatacleaningdata-quality
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