Yishai Shimoni
Manager at IBM
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolYishai Shimoni is a multidisciplinary research manager at IBM Research in Israel with a PhD in physics and two decades of experience applying modeling, machine learning, and computational biology to high-impact problems. He has co-led global teams that built transformer-based foundation models for drug discovery, spanning omics analysis and protein/small-molecule design, trained on massive curated public datasets and deployed as both open-source and proprietary solutions. His background blends deep theoretical skills—from quantum computation and stochastic simulations—to practical algorithm development for high-throughput biological data and systems biology. Yishai combines people management and agile project leadership with hands-on ML research, delivering publications, patents, and software that enabled client-specific fine-tuning and novel discoveries. Unusually for a manager, he retains active technical depth across physics, bioinformatics, and quantum applications, now overseeing quantum-applications work at IBM Research. Based in Tel Aviv, he has a strong track record of fostering international collaborations and translating complex computational hypotheses into testable biological insights.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Physics Quantum Computation, Ph.D Physics Quantum Computation at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
causal10
python10
data-science10
statistics10
machine-learning10
causality10
causal-inference10
data-analysis10
modular9
scikit9
fairness-ml9
scikit-learn9
inference8
representation-learning8
scoring8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yishaishimoni/phenoClust
Feb 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
yishaishimoni/Random_Genes
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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