Yoav Goldberg
Research Director Of Israel Branch at Bar-Ilan University
Israel
Summary
🤩
RockstarYoav Goldberg is a research leader and academic with 13 years of experience bridging fundamental NLP research and applied AI, currently serving as Research Director of AI2’s Israel branch while holding an associate professorship at Bar-Ilan University. He combines deep scholarly expertise with hands-on engineering, contributing to core infrastructure in influential open-source projects such as DyNet by improving its API, Python bindings, and forward/backward evaluation interfaces. Yoav is skilled at translating complex model internals into usable tooling for practitioners, enabling smoother integration with ecosystems like NumPy. His dual role across institute and university gives him a rare vantage on both long-term scientific agendas and immediate product-facing challenges. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluid theoretical ideas into robust, developer-friendly implementations.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
501reputation
40kreached
1answer
5questions
Github Skills (14)
deeplearning4j10
deep-q-learning10
c-language10
deep-learning10
api10
cprogramming-language10
python10
apidoc10
numpy9
macos6
boost6
makefile6
gnu6
cairo6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
clab/dynet
Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
DyNet: The Dynamic Neural Network Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:262 commits, 52 PRs, 171 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yoav's commits primarily involve modifications to the core codebase of the DyNet library, focusing on enhancing functionality and improving the API. The contributions involve adding methods to retrieve expression values, introducing Python bindings, and integrating with tools like NumPy. Specifically, the user worked on the forward/backward evaluation interface, improving and simplifying it.
dynetdynamic-neural-networkdeep-learningneural-networksmachine-learning
yoavg/ioop2018
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.