Yanai Elazar
Assistant Professor at Bar-Ilan University
Israel
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Top SchoolYanai Elazar is an Assistant Professor and researcher with nine years of experience at the intersection of generative models, interpretability, and data-centric AI, currently based at Bar-Ilan University. After a PhD and MSc focused on NLP and ML, he progressed from industry internships at Google, Intuit and AOL to a multi-year research role at the Allen Institute for AI, where he advanced methods for data attribution and model understanding. Yanai combines deep academic rigor with practical engineering—having built GPU-accelerated tooling early in his career—to tackle reproducibility and dataset-driven challenges in modern AI. Known for bridging theory and applied systems, he brings a track record of translating interpretability insights into tools and experiments that improve model reliability.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (98)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
arabic-nlp10
entity-linking10
datasets10
deep-learning10
speech10
fairness-ml10
cython10
automata-theory10
in-progress10
pandas10
neural10
hyperparameter-tuning10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yanaiela/pararel
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 11 months
allenai/wimbd
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
What's In My Big Data (WIMBD) - a toolkit for analyzing large text datasets
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 5 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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