Zahy Bnaya
Founder at Stealth Mode
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolZahy Bnaya is a founder and researcher with 12 years of experience at the intersection of AI and cognitive science, focused on modeling human decision-making and building AI systems that reason. He has led applied research and product efforts across industry and academia, including senior research roles at General Motors and postdoctoral work at NYU studying adversarial decision processes. His technical expertise spans reinforcement learning, heuristic search, planning, Monte-Carlo Tree Search, multi-agent systems, anomaly detection, and more recently integrating LLMs and NLP into reasoning pipelines. Zahy combines deep theoretical grounding (PhD in AI) with hands-on software and systems architecture experience, having built AI-driven products from prototyping to deployment. Based in Tel Aviv, he’s comfortable moving between lab-style research and stealth-mode product development, often bridging behavioral modeling with practical engineering constraints. An understated trait: he pairs rigorous experimental methods with product-minded pragmatism, enabling research insights to translate into deployable features.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc, Neural Science, Postdoc, Neural Science at New York UniversityM.Sc, Information systems Engineering, M.Sc, Information systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevPh.D, Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D, Artificial Intelligence at Universitat Ben Gurion Ba-Negev
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
377reputation
39kreached
2answers
15questions
Github Skills (18)
mechanical-turk9
coding-style6
casting6
dictionary6
extension-methods6
amazon6
convex-optimization6
python6
allocation6
algorithm6
science5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
aws4
planning4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zahybnaya/mnk
Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:105 commits, 132 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years
zahybnaya/generic-best-first-bandit
Nov 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:103 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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