Shai Pilosof
Associate Professor
Be'er Sheva, South District, Israel
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Top SchoolShai Pilosof is an Associate Professor and leader of the Ecological Complexity Lab at Ben-Gurion University with nine years of post-PhD research experience applying network science, modeling and data-driven methods to problems across scales—from genes to meta-communities. His work blends theoretical ecology and computational analysis, producing high-impact publications (including advances in malaria strain definition and frameworks for high-dimensional ecological networks) and attracting competitive funding. He mentors multidisciplinary teams and trains students to develop transferable quantitative skills for academia and industry. Colleagues describe him as collaborative and committed to open, honest science, and his background ranges from database engineering to international visiting fellowships, reflecting both technical breadth and field-savvy ecological insight.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Life Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Life Sciences at Tel Aviv UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English, Spanish
Github Skills (43)
r-package10
jekyll10
algolia9
ecology9
markdown9
jekyll-theme9
github-pages9
triangular8
utterances8
algolia-search8
ruler8
r8
network-analysis8
issue-tracking7
gitpod7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shainova/malaria_interventions
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:153 pushes, 1 branch, 75 comments in 9 months
Ecological-Complexity-Lab/infomap_ecology_package
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Package with functions to handle network data and run Infomap, inspired by ecological networks
Contributions:4 releases, 131 commits, 108 pushes in 2 years 1 month
r-packagenetwork-dataecological-networksinfomapmultilayer-network
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