Vered Shwartz
Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolVered Shwartz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UBC with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and industry in natural language processing and commonsense reasoning. She completed a PhD and postdoctoral work at leading institutions including the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI, and has a track record of publications and applied research accessible on her personal site and CV. Her background spans hands-on software engineering from early .NET and J2EE team leadership in the IDF to research internships at Google and IBM, giving her a rare blend of production-grade systems experience and deep NLP expertise. Vered’s work often targets textual entailment and semantic components, and she maintains an actively curated academic portfolio rather than updating LinkedIn, reflecting a preference for substantive dissemination of work.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Mathematics, English, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, English, Computer Science at Mosenzon High SchoolMsc. in Computer Science, exchange student for one semester, Computational Linguistics, Msc. in Computer Science, exchange student for one semester, Computational Linguistics at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, RomaniaBSc., Computer Science, 93, BSc., Computer Science, 93 at Bar-Ilan UniversityCourse, Software Development, Course, Software Development at Basmach (Mamram)
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (56)
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
named-entity-recognition10
python10
arabic-nlp10
machine-learning10
entity-linking10
text-classification10
language-processing10
data-preprocessing10
spacy10
tensorflow10
deep-learning10
neural10
relation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vered1986/self_talk
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 3 months
vered1986/lexcomp
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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