Personal details

Harel W. - Remote data scientist

Harel W.

Based in: 🇮🇱 Israel
Timezone: Jerusalem (UTC+3)

Summary

I am passionate about sharing knowledge and empowering others to reach their full potential. Throughout my career, I have benefited greatly from the guidance and mentorship of others, and I am eager to pay it forward. Being a mentor allows me to contribute to the growth and success of aspiring individuals in fields such as NLP, machine learning, and bioinformatics. I find fulfillment in seeing others succeed and thrive, knowing that I have played a part in their journey. By serving as a mentor, I hope to inspire, guide, and support individuals as they navigate their careers, overcome challenges, and achieve their goals.

Work Experience

LLM Engineer
FrameAI Project, Sepana | Jan 2023 - Present
NLP (Natural Language Processing)
Huggingface

As a LLM Engineer I have been pivotal in advancing automated digital media strategies that relate to Israel-Gaza war. I worked with Hugging Face, OpenAI API, Llama Index technologies to create online research agents, integrated with Twitter API for data collection, analysis and building geolocation features.
● Optimized GPT-4 API expenses using knowledge graphs and working with AWS & GCP cloud environments.
● I enhanced the RLHF technique by using Google PaLM to implement - 'Optimization by Prompting', and utilize PFET & LoRA to fine-tune models effectively.

NLP Research & Development
TiSPace (MatchUP) | Jan 2023 - Present
NLP (Natural Language Processing)
TensorFlow
Huggingface

MatchUp was created to enable personalized recruitment processes tailored to both the candidate's and the employer's needs. As a researcher, I am developing tailored job description analyses using NLTK with PyTorch and Word2Vec, analyzing candidates’ resumes using LLM, and utilizing transfer learning and prompt techniques to calibrate LLM Transformers using both LangChain and Hugging Face modules.
● Saving time for the 'mentors' who edit and comment on the resumes.
● Reduced mismatches between employers and candidates by more than 80%.

Education

Bar Ilan University
Master's degreeBiochemastry
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
Bar Ilan University
Bachelor's degreeNeuroscience
Oct 2012 - Oct 2015