Dr. Kfir Bar
Kfir Bar is a senior lecturer at the Arazi School of Computer Science. He heads the natural language processing (NLP) lab at the Data Science Institute, focusing on developing technologies for analyzing the Arabic language.
Kfir has many years working in a wide range of NLP disciplines, including statistical machine translation, named entity recognition, and sentiment-analysis applications. He is a big fan of combining linguistic knowledge with sophisticated AI algorithms, for extracting the most important information from a given text.
In parallel to his current role, Kfir is the chief scientist at Basis Technology. His previous roles include Chief Technology Officer at Interview, and co-founder and VP of engineering at Comprendi, where in 2016, together with his team, he won the Twitter #Promote challenge.
Kfir holds a PhD in computer science from Tel Aviv University for a thesis on semantics and machine translation.