Summary
Yoni Gottesman is an AI leader with 11 years of experience building and shipping deep learning and NLP systems, currently heading GenAI/NLP at Viz.ai where he leads retrieval and agent-based medical guidance initiatives. He progressed from hands-on research and model deployment across modalities (1D ECG, 2D/3D CT) to technical leadership and team mentorship, blending research rigor with production-grade engineering. His background spans industry research at Yahoo, low-level systems and emulator work at EZchip, and teaching core computer engineering topics at the Technion, giving him uncommon breadth from kernel and hardware-level concepts to large-scale ML. A former platoon commander in the IDF, he brings disciplined leadership and operational thinking to high-stakes medical AI products. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion and maintains a public technical presence via yonigottesman.github.io.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology