| Name | Yonatan Ben-Simhon |
| Birth year | 1976 |
| Address | P.O. Box 23458 Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Tel | (+972) 50-6543-544 |
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| HomePage | www.yonatantsav.net |
Education
| 2012-2014 | Advanced studies in art, Hamidrasha School of the Arts Beit Berl College, Beit Berl, Israel. |
| 2010-2012 | MPs in Interactive Telecommunication, ITP, Tisch School of the Arts NYU, New York, NY. |
| 2003-2006 | PhD candidate in computer science, computational biology and medicine program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. |
| 2001-2003 | MA in applied mathematics, bioinformatics course, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1997-2001 | BSc with honors in computer science, bioinformatics course, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. |
| 1994-1995 | Studies mathematics, physics and computer science, as part of I.D.F. air forces 'Talpiot' project, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. |
Selected Exhibitions & Performances
| May 2018 | Enlightenment, P=0.5, Musrara Mix, Jerusalem. |
| Jul 2016 | Wonderkid in Menopause with Adar Goldfarb, Solo Exhibition, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv. |
| Mar 2015 | Gluyot Yafoiyot with Maayan Shachar Kallir, Al Hasdera, Yerushalayim Avenue, Jaffa. |
| Sep 2014 | Brith Mila, Post Graduate Final Exhibition, HaYarkon 19 Gallery, Tel Aviv. |
| May 2014 | Futile Type Ingested with Adar Goldfarb, MediActive, Hamidrasha, Beit Berl. |
| Dec 2013 | To Yizhak, Living Gallery, Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba. |
| Nov 2013 | Digital Mirror, He who criticizes or thrusts the game away has already entered into the game, The spaceship, Tel Aviv. |
| Sep 2013 | Futile Type with Alessandra Villaamil & Ioni Gkliati, Il(l) Machine, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz. |
| Aug 2013 | Hate Machine with Mattan Tenneh, Machines of Desire, Hanina, Tel Aviv. |
| Aug 2013 | Illumination with Jack Kalish, Not Book, Beit Ha'ir Museum, Tel Aviv. |
| Jun 2013 | Illumination with Jack Kalish, Everything is TEMP, TEMP artspace, New York. |
| Nov 2012 | Turing Normalizing Machine with Mushon Zer Aviv, Other Lives, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem. |
| Nov 2012 | Illumination with Jack Kalish, Other Lives, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem. |
| Aug 2012 | Type II with Alessandra Villaamil & Ioni Gkliati, Kola Shel Hamila, HaZira Performance Art Arena, Jerusalem. |
| May 2012 | Futile Type with Alessandra Villaamil & Ioni Gkliati, The Interactive Show, NYCResistor, Brooklyn. |
| Apr 2012 | Street Art TLV NYC with Tamar Erez, ITP Thesis Week, NYU, New York. |
| Dec 2011 | Mailbox full of Secrets with Gabriela Gutiérrez, ITP Winter Show, NYU, New York. |
| Aug 2011 | Illumination with Jack Kalish, Geekdown, 92Y Tribeca, New York. |
| Jun 2011 | Illumination with Jack Kalish, Intensity, Ventata 244, Brooklyn. |
| May 2011 | Is with Geetha Pedapati & Alex Vessels, Shifting Sensorium, 319Scholes, Brooklyn. |
| May 2011 | A Room with a Nude, Shifting Sensorium, 319Scholes, Brooklyn. |
| May 2011 | </Archive> with Alex Dodge, Eszter Ozsvald & Mirit Tal, Festival of Ideas for the New City, The New Museum & Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. |
| Dec 2010 | Cube of Expression (multimedia performance with Min Jung Kim, Valentina Camancho & Eszter Oszvald), ITP, NYU, New York. |
| May 2010 | Sox,White Stage, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. |
| Mar 2010 | Born Free, IPE, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. |
| Nov 2009 | Untitled (ready made by Liav Mizrahi), My Camp, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv. |
| Oct 2009 | Untitled (for Ora Reuven's exhibition opening) Femosteron, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv. |
Awards & Prizes
| 2016 | Blue Monster award (AOL’s highest given award), AOL. |
| 2010-2012 | Tisch Scholarship, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. |
| 2003-2006 | Tri-Institutional Fellowship in Computational Biology and Medicine, Cornell University, Rockefeller University, Sloan Kettering Institute. |
| 2003-2004 | Presidential Genomic Fellowship, Cornell University. |
| 2001-2003 | Fulbright Doctoral Fellow. |
| 2002 | Summer fellowship award, USC. |
| 2000-2001 | 'The Best to the Industry' scholarship, awarded by the ministry of Industry and Trade, Israel. |
| 1999-2001 | 'Eshkol' scholarship in applied mathematics, awarded by the ministry of Science, Israel. |
| 1999 | Excellence prize (dean prize) for scholarly achievements in the natural sciences faculty, Ben Gurion University, Israel. |
| 1997-1999 | Excellence prize from the Rector's office, Ben Gurion University, Israel. |
| 1993 | Semi finalist of the Israeli physics Olympiad. |
Work Experience
| 2018-Present | Data Science Product Manager at Intuit, Tel Aviv - Managed business & product for Customer Success NLP. - Lead Intuit’s NLP Development team as part of Intuit’s Israeli AI/ML team of the newly formed Data Science organization. |
| 2014-2018 | R&D Group Manager at Oath (Previously AOL), Tel Aviv - Directed business & product for media analysis group, focusing on publishing, advertising & BI solutions. - Lead NLP & IR platform development strategy specialising in algorithms for text & video content. |
| 2010-2014 | Science Lead & Team Lead at AOL Relegence / AOL, Tel Aviv / New York - Lead Machine Learning & Data Science R&D for AOL Relegence. - Managed a US based Information Science team & a Tel Aviv based Software Development team. |
| 2006-2010 | Principal Software Developer & Science Lead at AOL Relegence, Tel Aviv - Developed state of the art IR, NLP and information flow analysis algorithms for high throughput real time text analysis. |
| 2005 | Teaching assistant for professor R. Elber, Cornell. - Planned and conducted sections in mathematics and computer science topics programming. - Rated highly by the students through anonymous evaluation. |
| 2002-2003 | Teaching assistant for professor W. Proskurowski, USC. - Conducted sections in advanced calculus and Matlab programming. - Rated highly by the students through anonymous evaluation. |
| 1998-2001 | Private tutor for college undergraduates in computer science, mathematics and physics. - Significantly improved students’ grades in multiple courses and through multiple disciplines. |
| 1995-1997 | Developer and experimentalist in an R&D group at a technological unit of the Israeli defense forces. - Developed devices aimed at saving human lives as a part of a technological R&D group. - Planned and executed both lab and field experiments as part of research. |
Talks, Conferences & Panels
| Jul 2016 | “AOL’s Named Entity Resolver“. - SIGIR Publication & conference presentation on entity linking & resolution applied research. |
| Feb 2008 | “Real Time Semantic Web” – ISOC-IL, Israeli Internet Association Conference, Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Jun 2007 | “High Throughput Real-Time IR solution for the Financial Community” – Information Retrieval/Search Technologies Seminar, IBM Haifa labs, Israel |
| Mar 2007 | “MyBag – Handbags Promoting Self Expression” – IFAWC, The Fourth International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing, Tel Aviv, Israel |
Selected Research Projects
| 2005 | “Structural alignment with gaps for proteins using the URMS method“. - Numerical methods speed computations of URMS distance of protein pairs in a dynamic algorithm approach. |
| 2005 | “Indirect space sampling methods for the HP model for protein folding”. - Replacing structure space with matrix space improves space-sampling AI algorithms (MC, GA, etc.) searches. |
| 2000-2001 | “An approximation algorithm for finding minimal energy in the 2D HP model for protein folding” .- An approximation algorithm for an NP-hard problem using model-dependant heuristic for pruning the search tree. |
| 1999-2000 | “Web based software for comparison of protein structures”. - An approximation algorithm for the NP-hard “subset” problem specialized for aligned protein structures comparisons. Greedy extension of short promising contiguous subsets. |
Social & community activities
| 1998-2001 | Tutor for Bedouin, immigrant and learning disabled students, through the student's dean. |
| 1998-1999 | Instructor for a child suffering from cerebral palsy, through 'Perach' project. |
| 1997-1998 | Instructor for a deaf, challenged and mentally ill teen-ager, through 'Perach' project. |
| 1991-1992 | Volunteer at a mentally ill club, though 'Enosh' foundation. |
Languages
| Human | English, Hebrew |
| Computer | Python, C#, Java, Matlab, PHP, C++, C, Perl, SQL, HTML |
| Massage | Swedish, Deep Tissue, Hot Stones |