Yaara Arkin
Senior AI Researcher at K Health
United States
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Top SchoolYaara Arkin is a Senior AI Researcher with 12 years of experience applying machine learning to real-world problems across healthcare, geospatial routing, and computational biology. She progressed from bioinformatics research—where she built widely used R pipelines and a fast algorithm for regression with interactions—to industry roles delivering production-ready models and routing optimizers that reduced customer costs by up to 20%. At K Health she leads AI research translating clinical and patient data into actionable models, bridging rigorous academic methods with product impact. Her skill set spans supervised and unsupervised learning, dimensionality reduction, statistical modeling, and large-scale geospatial optimization, plus hands-on experience building evaluation pipelines. Colleagues describe her as a researcher who moves ideas from proof-of-concept to production, with a knack for squeezing orders-of-magnitude improvements from algorithmic innovations. Based in the United States, she combines deep academic training with practical delivery in startup and enterprise settings.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bioinformatics B.Sc, Computer Science, Bioinformatics B.Sc, Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
ortools6
gurobi6
ansible-collections4
dm3
servicenow2
data-science1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
yaarasegre/EPIQ
Apr 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
yaarasegre/courses
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
My courses
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
python
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