Ran Feldesh
Founder at Cogitat
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRan Feldesh is a founder and AI specialist with eight years of industry experience and a broader 15-year involvement in AI research and engineering, now building Cogitat to optimize capital allocation using advanced machine learning. He combines hands-on product delivery at Shopify—improving semantic search and large-scale analytics—with deep technical leadership from roles ranging from leading deep learning teams to developing commercial silicon photonics at Intel. As an adjunct professor and startup mentor in Waterloo, he translates complex AI concepts into curricula and practical projects, consistently earning top instructor ratings. His background spans computational neuroscience research and real-world ML systems for millions of users, giving him a rare blend of theoretical rigor and production-grade engineering. Notably, he has driven high-throughput data platforms and embedding-based search work that directly target improving intent recognition and decision-making in financial contexts.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Studies - Not Completed, Computational Neuroscience, Ph.D. Studies - Not Completed, Computational Neuroscience at Tel Aviv UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, with distinction (top 10% in class), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, with distinction (top 10% in class) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
number-formatting9
jupyter-notebook9
merge6
pytest6
dataframe6
apache-spark6
pandas6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Conestoga-AAIML-2023-Spring/CSCN8010-lab-submissions
May 2023 - Dec 2023
Submission of Practical Labs
Contributions:244 reviews, 276 PRs, 236 pushes in 7 months
mohanarunachalam/Video-Tracking-using-meanShift
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:21 commits in 22 days
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