Barak Shalom

Experience

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  Israeli Air Force

  Jul 2008 - Nov 2016

  Served for 8 years and 4 months, Released at the rank of captain. Was in charge of planning projects and missions with interface to the entire IDF and commanded one direct subordinate.

  • Planning Officer

    Jul 2014 - Nov 2016

  • Systems officer

    Jul 2008 - Jul 2014
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  Tapingo (acquired by Grubhub)

  Apr 2016 - Jan 2017

  Research Internship

  Created an automated tool meant for categorizing restaurants according to their menu items.Processing menu items written in natural language. Collected large datasets, process, cleaned and analysed the data. Experimented with a few models to build a natural language representation of a restaurant and used it in a classification algorithm to find the most appropriate categories and then used statistical tests to improve the certainty of results.

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  Bar-Ilan University

  Jan 2017 - Nov 2020

  Fundamentals of statistical inference and Big data analysis using the R programming language.Mentorship of Big-Data projects. The course deals with models of Biological Systems and their behavior.We taught the R programming language as the computational tool to model several systems such asPredator-Prey dynamics and Gene-control networks

  • Msc Thesis

    Nov 2016 - Nov 2020

  • Big Data Analysis Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Biological Control Systems Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2017 - Sept 2018
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  ClearCO2

  Jan 2022 - now

  Lead Data Scientist

  Leveraging data to help reduce Co2 emissions and motivate SMEs to go green