Dr. Shai Fine | Reichman University

Dr. Shai Fine is the head of the Data Science Institute at the Reichman University (IDC) and the Julis-Rabinowitz Academic Chair for Data Science.

Prior to Reichman University, Shai spent over 25 years at leading companies – He was the Sr. Director for Analytics & Big Data at Teva Pharmaceutical, a Principal Engineer and Chief Data Scientist at Intel and the head of the Deep Learning Capstone at Intel Labs, and the founder and head of the Analytics department at IBM.
Shai holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a postdoc at the IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, and he is the inventor of 10 patents.

Shai’s research interests are in the field of machine learning and deep learning, focusing on representation, modelling, measurements, and algorithms, and demonstrating capabilities and usefulness in real-life settings.
Recent activities and domains of interest can be found at the website of the Data Science Institute.