Summary
Raz Nissim is a Senior AI Researcher and software engineering leader with over a decade of experience building ML-driven simulation, testing, and validation platforms for autonomous driving. He has led global, cross-functional teams at General Motors to deploy large-scale virtualization and AI-based ADAS/AV testing infrastructures and recently co-founded a Hebrew-native AI transcription and summarization startup. His background blends deep academic research in multi-agent planning (PhD) with hands-on production experience in recommender and online learning systems at Yahoo, giving him a rare ability to translate formal algorithms into robust, scalable products. Currently based in the Greater Munich area, he combines strategic budget and program management with day-to-day technical leadership. Notably, he moves fluidly between research and engineering—designing state-of-the-art heuristics as a student and shipping billion-serving online learning pipelines in industry.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew, Spanish, French