Leon Gugel
Senior AI Researcher at The Samueli Integrative Cancer Pioneering Institute
Herzliya, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolLeon Gugel is a Senior AI Researcher based in Herzliya with over a decade of hands-on experience building AI systems that bridge foundational research and clinical impact. With a PhD in Applied Mathematics, he has led advanced projects across precision oncology, generative media, and medical imaging—pioneering EEG foundation models, multi-modal oncology and protein-design paradigms for drug discovery. His background spans mission-critical C/C++ systems for defense and healthcare to large-scale distributed training pipelines and HPC infrastructure, giving him rare fluency from low-level optimization to deep learning at scale. Leon’s work has produced high-impact publications and productionized features such as photorealistic face/body reenactment and pathology classification, reflecting both academic rigor and product focus. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex mathematical ideas into robust, deployable systems that accelerate clinical decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Applied Mathematics School of Mathematical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Applied Mathematics School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv UniversityMsc. Math, Msc. Math at Bar-Ilan UniversityB.Sc. Project management, B.Sc. Project management at State University of Management (SUM)
Hebrew, Russian, English
Github Skills (3)
retrieval6
deep-learning4
pytorch4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gugas81/Cold-Diffusion-Models
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Official implementation of Cold-Diffusion for different transformations in pytorch.
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
pytorchcolddiffusiontransformationsgenerative-models
gugas81/DeepLearningManifolds
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 month
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