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New York City Metropolitan Area

• Develop model for demand forecasting in the non-stationary setting that outperforms traditional forecasting methods such as Sample Average Approximation (SAA), Holt, Naive, etc.
• Our model works by decomposing the demand into its trend, seasonality, and noise and then running SAA on the noise

• Develop DP-SMOTE, a privacy-preserving algorithm to generate synthetic data points for imbalanced machine learning tasks
• Published in ACM International Conference in AI in Finance (ACM-ICAIF'22)
• DP-SMOTE uses uniform hypersphere sampling (computational thermodynamics), k-nearest neighbors (machine learning), disjoint subsets of r-nearest neighbors graphs (graph theory), the exponential mechanism (differential.

• Implemented Wang’s NeurIPS 2020 paper on Clustering via Uncoupled REgression (CURE) in python
• Demonstrated that CURE 1) outperforms traditional algorithms on classifying elliptically distributed data and 2) performs poorly on data with a non-linear decision boundary, confirming the theoretical results of the.

• Co-founded StudBud, a social platform that matches students into ideal study groups with a machine learning algorithm during Covid-19 (variation of k-nearest neighbor & graph partitioning).
• Fall 2020: StudBud had 1300+ sign-ups at Columbia, was published in the school paper, and won the Innovation and Enhancement Award.

• Conducted NLP research to answer the question: if a piece of writing contains multiple dates, which date is the most important to the article?
• Developed Naive Bayes classifier to predict the most important date in a Wikipedia article with accuracy of 71% and an F1-Score of 0.83. Independently generated and cleaned my own dataset.

Bachelor'S Degree, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Columbia Data Product Initiative, Columbia Rock Climbing Club, Competitive Programming Coursework: Calculus.

Physics, First Year

Education record

Educational Institution based in Jerusalem, Israel.

Education record

Took the maximum of four AP courses: AP US History, AB Calculus, AP C Physics, AP Computer Science.