Sagie Benaim
Assistant Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolSagie Benaim is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with nine years of experience bridging academic research and applied machine learning. Trained at Imperial, Oxford, and Tel Aviv University (PhD), he focuses on computer vision, generative models, neural signal representations, and inverse graphics, exploring how disentangled representations can reveal structure in visual data. His trajectory includes a DIKU postdoc with Serge Belongie, a Google research internship that produced CVPR work on self-supervised video representations, and recent affiliation as an Amazon Scholar, reflecting a blend of deep research and industry collaboration. He has taught convolutional neural networks repeatedly at Tel Aviv University, demonstrating a commitment to education alongside research. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who combines mathematical rigor with practical systems thinking, often turning theoretical insight into reproducible models and code.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityMaster’s Degree Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science, Master’s Degree Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science at University of OxfordBachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College London
English, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (16)
generative-model10
computer-vision10
unsupervised-learning10
image-manipulation10
dcgan10
generative-adversarial-network10
computer-graphics9
transfer-learning9
image-translation9
deep-learning9
image-generation9
pytorch9
paper8
editing6
jekyll4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sagiebenaim/DistanceGAN
Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
Pytorch implementation of "One-Sided Unsupervised Domain Mapping" NIPS 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pytorchganunsupervised-learningimage-generationcomputer-vision
sagiebenaim/OneShotTranslation
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Pytorch implementation of "One-Shot Unsupervised Cross Domain Translation" NIPS 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 4 comments in 9 months
pytorchganunsupervised-learningoneshotimage-generation
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