Idan Attias
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDEAL Institute (NSF Fellowship)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIdan Attias is a postdoctoral researcher based in Chicago with a decade of experience at the intersection of machine learning theory, sequential decision-making, and theoretical computer science. His work spans game theory, private data analysis, optimization, and information theory, bridging deep theoretical foundations with practical insights from industry roles in ML research and data science. He held an NSF-funded postdoc at the IDEAL Institute after internships at the Vector Institute and multi-year applied roles at startups like Audioburst, giving him a rare blend of rigorous academic training (MSc/PhD) and production-minded experimentation. An active contributor to open-source testing tooling, he has expanded Jest capabilities with type-safe matchers, reflecting attention to reproducibility and software quality in research workflows.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityMSc + PhD, Computer Science, MSc + PhD, Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevASDM (advanced statistics and data mining) summer school, Machine Learning, ASDM (advanced statistics and data mining) summer school, Machine Learning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (7)
assertion10
jestjs10
testing10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jest-community/jest-extended
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Additional Jest matchers 🃏💪
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Idan primarily contributed to adding new Jest matchers and enhancing existing ones within the `jest-extended` repository. They implemented features such as `toBeDateString` and `toPartiallyContain`, demonstrating a focus on expanding the testing capabilities. These changes included writing tests, defining predicates, and updating TypeScript types, showcasing a commitment to thoroughness and type safety within the testing framework.
assertionsextendedjesttestingjavascript
idan-at/eslint-plugin-package-json-dependencies
May 2021 - Nov 2022
An ESLint plugin for package-json dependencies, for both JS and TS projects.
Contributions:5 reviews, 4 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 6 months
dependencieslintpackage-json-typespackage-jsoneslint
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