Hila Gonen
Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia
United States
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Top SchoolHila Gonen is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia with seven years of research and postdoctoral experience in natural language processing and machine learning. She transitioned from postdoctoral roles at the University of Washington and Facebook AI into academia, bringing applied research insights from industry-scale AI environments. Hila holds a PhD in NLP from Bar-Ilan University and advanced degrees in computer science from The Hebrew University, reflecting a strong theoretical foundation paired with practical experimentation. Her work blends academic rigor with production-minded approaches to language technologies, and she is known for navigating both collaborative research teams and industry research labs. An interesting thread in her career is the overlap of simultaneous postdoctoral appointments at top institutions, signaling an ability to bridge diverse research cultures and fast-moving AI projects.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The Hebrew University of JerusalemDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing at Bar-Ilan UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew, Arabic
Github Skills (9)
large-scale7
docker7
huggingface7
scale7
transformers5
phonetics1
compilation1
nim-language1
modeling1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gonenhila/gonenhila.github.io
May 2022 - Dec 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:107 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
gonenhila/gender_bias_lipstick
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
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