Sagie Benaim
Assistant Professor at Amazon
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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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 (23)
dcgan10
generative-adversarial-network10
image-translation9
adversarial-learning9
computer-graphics9
image-manipulation9
unsupervised-learning9
information-theory9
weakly-supervised-learning9
adaptation9
transfer-learning9
computer-vision8
cyclegan8
paper8
translation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sagiebenaim/OneShotTranslation
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 4 comments in 9 months
sagiebenaim/mypix2pix
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:192 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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