Shon Otmazgin
AI Researcher (NLP) at Wix
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolShon Otmazgin is an NLP-focused AI researcher with a Master's from Bar-Ilan University and a decade of experience building production-ready language systems across startups and enterprise teams. He combines a strong research pedigree—co-authoring EACL and AACL papers on coreference models like LingMess and F-COREF—with 5+ years in industry as a data scientist and ML engineer delivering measurable business impact. At Perion he architected LLM-driven ad creative generators and a reward model from real campaign data, cutting irrelevant RTB traffic by 50% for only 1% revenue loss. Comfortable moving models from research to robust, low-latency production (Intel, Anyword, Wix), he specializes in model tuning, distillation, few-shot/zero-shot methods and KPI-driven evaluation. Based in Tel Aviv, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering and a knack for turning complex linguistic problems into scalable commercial products.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering at Jerusalem College of EngineeringMaster of Science - MS Computer & Data Science, Master of Science - MS Computer & Data Science at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
python10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
transformer9
deep-learning9
machine-learning9
bert9
speech-recognition9
adapter9
tensorflow9
jax8
language-model8
transformers8
bit8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
talgarusi/Itorerut-Project
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 3 months
shon-otmazgin/fastcoref
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 releases, 19 reviews, 122 commits in 6 months
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