Giora Simchoni
PHD Candidate
Israel
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Top SchoolGiora Simchoni is a PhD candidate in Statistics at Tel Aviv University with 11 years of applied data science experience across academia and industry. He has delivered production-scale ML and clustering solutions at eBay and vFunction, and brought machine learning into hardware verification at IBM. At TAU he teaches advanced data science to undergraduates while pursuing research—blending rigorous statistical theory with pragmatic engineering. Comfortable across R, Scala, Java, Spark and Python, he translates large, messy datasets into actionable models and insights. His background in psychology and summa cum laude MSc/BSc in Statistics gives him a rare mix of human-centric thinking and formal probabilistic rigor. Colleagues describe him as a “subspecies statistician” who enjoys making elegant theory useful in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Tel Aviv University
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (124)
python10
deep-learning10
dplyr10
jax10
r-package10
data-science10
tensorflow10
transition10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
grammar10
r9
animation9
neural-network9
interoperability9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gsimchoni/lmmnn
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:254 commits, 12 PRs, 79 pushes in 1 year 11 months
DSApps-2020/Class_Slides
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:182 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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