Irit Opher Email & Phone Number

I'm a research manager specializing in Machine Learning and Speech Recognition, with over 20 years experience in Israel's high-tech Industry. My experience includes algorithm development and research in various domains, including speech and speaker recognition, text analysis, data analysis, video analytics, classification and clustering methods and neural networks. I am passionate about data of all types, and approach any new data with respect. I have led many R&D projects from conception to successful deployment at customers' sites, and managed various collaborative research projects, involving academic researchers, physicians and applied scientists. My PhD and MSc theses focused on Computational Neuroscience and my interests include using my scientific expertise to develop systems that can be helpful. Over the past 25 years I have been teaching courses in Physics, Mathematics, Neural Networks, Data Mining & Speech Recognition.