Dima Kagan Email & Phone Number

Israel

- Taught and managed students in various courses, including Project Seminar, Database Systems, and Introduction to Software Engineering, providing guidance and support for student success.- Oversaw and taught large courses of up to 300 students, managing class logistics, grading assignments and exams, and delivering engaging lectures.- Collaborated with professors to develop course materials, including assignments, exams, and lecture content, tailoring instruction to meet the needs of diverse student populations.- Utilized technology and innovative teaching methods to enhance student engagement and learning, including online discussion forums, interactive classroom activities, and multimedia presentations.- Mentored and advised students on academic and career goals, providing guidance on course selection, internship opportunities, and job search strategies.

- Designed and patented a computer-vision algorithm to efficiently search for objects in urban areas, reducing costs 9 times. - Developed novel methods for graph anomaly detection, enabling the identification of anomalous communities and other network-based patterns.- Explored security and privacy issues in various platforms using data science tools, identifying vulnerabilities and proposing solutions.- Developed open-source data science tools and frameworks, enabling others to replicate and extend our research in a reproducible and transparent manner.- Published research in leading scientific journals such as CACM, GigaScience, and ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, showcasing our lab's contributions to the field of data science.- Supervised graduate and undergraduate students’ teams performing AI research.

- Initiated and evaluated pilots of new technologies with industry partners, driving successful collaborations and innovation.- Led the organizational innovation process and advised on AI, software architecture, technological trends, training programs, and methodologies as a software engineering consultant.- Started and sat on board of organizational innovation and R&D projects.- Developed prototypes in a wide variety of fields, ranging from IOT up to com- puter vision.- Facilitated the creation of new projects by organizing and screening hackathons, and acted as a POC for civilian and defense-related interests.- Authored technical papers on researched technologies and methodologies and drafted and reviewed RFIs and RFI responses.- Planned and executed hackathons, served on the advisory board for Lotem hackathon projects and created new projects from successful hackathon entries.

- Worked with a software engineering team with designers and clients to create a product that will align with the clients and organizational needs.- Performed extensive research to identify how to improve client satisfaction. - Worked closely with clients on their sites to verify that the system truly functions as intended. - Managed the product life cycle of the safety-related systems at the GOC

Beer Sheva, South District, Israel

- Researched security and privacy on social networks using machine learning and complex network-based methods.- Collected and analyzed geospatial data, suggesting a better placement of police cars.- Developed and designed a data-driven research software framework for large-scale web scraping.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Information System Engineering

- Won the Dean’s award for academic excellence for Ph.D. research - Won the CHE Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in data.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cyber Space Security, 92.5

Developed a novel unsupervised two-layered meta-classifier that can detect irregular vertices in complex networks solely by utilizing.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Information Systems Engineering

Research project on developing systems for fake user detection on social networks, which results were presented at the SOTICS conference.