Leading a stealth-mode startup focused on an AI-powered context creation platform for mental workload management. Passionate about leveraging AI to transform how we interact with environments across industrial, home, and office settings.

Advising CEO Tim Wagner, channeling deep user understanding and academic knowledge on cognitive wellness into enhanced product strategies and user experience, underpinned by user-centered design and agile practices

▪ Co-authoring a book chapter dissecting the intricacies of cognitive governance in contemporary corporate and social landscapes▪ Collaborated with industry experts in multidisciplinary forums, steering the integration of ethical AI frameworks into product strategy, crafting strategic roadmaps to drive product innovation and anticipate technological and societal shifts▪ Helped plan and facilitate workshops to distill user insights into actionable product strategies, balancing long-term goals with immediate user-centric solutions▪ Contributed to a BCG thought piece, titled 'For Companies, Cognition Is a Terrible Thing to Waste., influencing industry perspectives on cognitive resource management▪ Selected as a finalist (3 finalists/100+ submissions) at the CogX Festival 2021 ‘Best Innovation in the Creative Arts’ awardsCollaborating with Mr. Mickey McManus on projects related to the following topics: Cognition Governance, A.I. & Ethics, Health Tech, Learning, and the Future of Work.

Head TA for eight upperclassman/Master-level courses at the Engineering Department Spring 2022 | INFO 4200/5200 Information Policy: Applied Research and Analysis (~60 students)Head TA; Managed a team of 5 Master/undergraduate TAs.Planned and managed TA’s weekly tasks, meetings, and grading sessions▪Designed the course assignments and wrote grading rubrics▪Held weekly meetings with student groups; provided feedback on project planning aspects, task priorities, progress, and risk mitigation▪Held office hours and solved problems raised by students and teaching staff.Fall 2021 | INFO 4340: App Design and Prototyping (~60 students)Head TA; Managed a team of 6 Master/undergraduate TAs.Planned and managed TA’s weekly tasks, meetings, and grading sessions▪ Helped design the course assignments and wrote the grading rubrics▪ Held two weekly lessons with the professor and weekly office hours▪Graded the course final project deliverables.Fall 2021 | INFO 5905: MPS Professional Development (~60 students)Graded weekly assignments.Fall 2019 - Spring 2021 | INFO 5900/5901: MPS Project Practicum (total of ~240 students)Head TA for 4 consecutive semesters of a Master-level course. In this course, students were assigned to work with an outside company on a real-world technical problem.Planned and managed TA’s weekly tasks, meetings, and grading sessions▪Provided weekly feedback to students on their semester-long group projects▪Helped design the course assignments and wrote grading rubrics▪Graded projects and individual assignments and held office hours▪Provided weekly feedback and guidance to teams of 2-4 students on planning and executing their projects.Fall 2017 | INFO 4320: Rapid Prototyping and Physical Computing (~80 students)Provided weekly feedback and guidance to teams of 2-3 upperclassman/Master-level students on the planning and development of new technologies proof of concepts, graded design/code/project assignments, and held office hours.

Dissertation Focus: Designing, developing, and evaluating technological tools for cognitive workload awareness and personal workload management.Planned and executed the development and evaluation of 3 distinctive web-based prototypes:Conducted in-depth literature reviews and developed an information architecture model for contextual cognitive workload; Developed scenarios and user workflow diagrams and fabricated paper prototypes to evaluate the flow of the application.Defined main features, functional requirements, classified application data points, and application output log; Developed navigation and content diagrams; Created low-fi and high-fi wireframes; Designed mockups, wrote content, and defined interaction features of each webpage; Created a QA testing plan and troubleshooting guide.Wrote study protocols, developed semi-structured interviews and questionnaires and data analysis plan; Planned and executed prototypes dry runs, pilots, and studies; Conducted qualitative and quantitative data analysis.Recruited, trained, and managed a team of 4 – 13 research assistants (undergraduate and graduate students from various Cornell departments and programs) across three sub-teams: research, development, and analytics.

As part of Autodesk's Strategic Foresight team (CTO's office), I worked with Mr. Mickey McManus to explore how we can use machine-learning systems to protect, manage, and regenerate our cognitive resources, especially for learning and creativity.We designed two conceptual ML systems to support cognitive capacity management and life-long learning: ▪ The 'Juice Meter' is a tool to help us manage our cognitive resources by raising awareness of our cognitive capacity reserves and load in real-time. ▪ The 'Which-Watch,' a tool to build creative capacity by helping us learn to build new habits, methods, and mindsets, particularly around creativity, productivity, and growth.In addition, we developed a cognitive information architecture model to understand better the complexity and constantly changing nature of our cognitive resources. The role of our past experiences, needs, identity, motivations, goals, actions, the environment we are in, our available resources, and the required ones (e.g., cognitive workload, knowledge, methods, and artifacts).Accomplishments:▪ Designed and presented to executive management a concept for an AI system to support lifelong learning. Some aspects are being piloted today in Autodesk’s most successful product (AutoCAD)▪ Facilitated a discussion with the Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellows Program (SDCFP) officers about effective strategies for commanding officers to promote cognitive diversity within the US military▪ Presented at Autodesk University 2019’s innovation forum (part of Autodesk’s 10,000+ person customer event)

Spring 2018 - Spring 2019 | INFO/CS 7900: Specialization Project. Taught a Master-level project-based course (40-60 students each semester) for Connective Media and Health Tech Master programs at Cornell Tech for three consecutive semesters (A 3-semesters long project-based course).Responsibilities: ▪ Designed and graded course assignments and updated the course curriculum ▪ Guided teams of 2-3 students on the complete life cycle of developing new technologies/algorithms. Helped develop project plans, and define project requirements, scope, objectives, and roadmap (including milestones, deliverables, and task breakdown), as well as the projects' documentation and presentation ▪ Monitored teams' progress on a weekly basis to ensure the focus was on the project objectives and that the project milestones were completed on time and with the desired results ▪ Assisted with task breakdown and prioritization, risk management and contingency planning, problem-solving, research planning, and teamwork coaching.

As part of Autodesk's Corporate Strategy team (CTO's office), I led exploratory research on system design, problem-framing toolkits, and human learning to demonstrate the ability to explore and enhance the thinking process of creative individuals and teams.▪ Conducted in-depth interviews with company executives, high-level management, ML experts, and users to discover challenges and opportunities during their creative process. ▪ Used design thinking and human-center design methods to synthesize key findings and identified cognitive bias cancellation as an impact area for human-machine collaboration. ▪ Collected 200+ known cognitive biases and errors to identify those impacting creativity and mapped out how they may manifest while using Autodesk's products, how they may be sensed, and what strategies can be used to cancel/enhance them.▪ Designed a machine-learning and human collaborative system for dynamic cognitive bias cancellation; By using IoT devices and smart spaces to sense signals from human behavior (e.g., their voice, spoken words, posture, movement etc.) to identify cognitive biases and propose actions to mitigate their effect.▪ Wrote scenarios to demonstrate how our system will be used in the future of work when smart spaces and quantum computing will be an integral part of our daily lives. ▪ Presented to Autodesk’s executive management as a potential direction for innovative technology to meet the needs of the future of work.Accomplishments:▪ Co-designed and assisted with the facilitation of a 60+ participant workshop about cognitive bias cancellation. ▪ Devised an innovative AI system for cognitive governance and effectively communicated its potential benefits to Autodesk’s CEO in a 1-on-1 meeting.▪ Co-authored an article published in Autodesk's Redshift.▪ I was honored to attend the prestigious 'Aspen Ideas Festival' along with the team's leadership as a venue to explore our system's concept and its potential impact on the future of work.

Spring 2016 - Interaction Design: Cultural Aspects, Communications Department Undergraduate course (~60 students); Advised and provided feedback on students' group projects; Wrote and graded course assignments and final test. Fall 2015 to Spring 2016 - Human-Computer Interaction Program, Media Innovation Lab Undergraduate project-based course (~50 students), groups comprised of students from Computer Science, Communication, and Psychology departments; Directed the research aspects of the program; Conducted lectures and activities on Research Methods, HCI academic papers, and how to conduct user testing; Designed and graded course assignments; Advised and mentored Psychology students about their role in the team, their tasks, and contribution to the project.Fall 2015 to Spring 2016 - Physical/Digital HCI: Tangible User Interfaces and Beyond, Communications DepartmentUndergraduate research seminar (~25 students); Advised and provided feedback on students' projects and weekly assignments; Responded to students' inquiries via email.

Led human-computer interaction research (Project manager). Investigated the effect of a novel assistive technology, TangiPlan, intended to improve executive functioning in children with ADHD under the guidance of the 'miLAB' director, Prof. Oren Zuckerman, and Psychology faculty Dr. Daphne Kopelman-Rubin (the ADHD & LD Institute)▪ Managed and trained a team of 3 Computer Science and 3 Communications undergraduate research assistants that helped develop the prototype and run the studies▪Conduct literature reviews on the subject of ADHD, Executive Functioning, and Technology▪Designed, planned, and executed field studies, lab experiments, A/B testing, and user testing▪Wrote study protocols, developed semi-structured/in-depth interviews and surveys▪Recruited and interviewed new participants▪Contributed to the design of the Tangible User Interface (physical IoT objects), the Graphical User Interface (tablet application), and the analytics system (data log) of the prototype▪Planned and monitored the development of the prototype▪Performed QA testing and troubleshooting ▪Conducted qualitative and quantitative data analysisAccomplishments:▪ Co-authored a published paper and presented the project at three academic conferences (poster and demo at IDC 2015 Conference in Boston, USA; poster and demo at IsraHCI 2015 conference in Microsoft, Israel; talk at L.D. & ADHD Conference in Herzliya, Israel), and several industry events.▪1 of the three students, and the first Psychology student, to get chosen to lead one of the lab’s three main research projectsThe media innovation lab (miLAB) explores the future of media and technology through collaborative creative processes, characterization of development, and design of innovative user experiences that incorporate media and technology to provide solutions to human needs

I’ve used my ability to develop individually tailored study plans and my experience as a person with learning differences to accommodate a wide variety of learning styles and explain complex mathematical and language-related concepts in several clear and accessible ways, to teach a variety of students and academic audiences.Prepared and delivered private lessons in mathematics for children with Learning Differences, focused on teaching them learning strategies tailored to their unique struggles. Prepared and delivered private lessons in statistics and combinatorics for Psychology first-year students

Worked as a Human Resources (HR) Intern at a start-up company specializing in Big Data. Spent one full day each week working under the guidance of the company's head HR and learning firsthand about the daily task and roles of an HR in a start-up company.

Assisted Dr. Iris Leveshaus-Erlich in evaluating the 'I Can Succeed' (ICS) intervention program aimed to promote educational, emotional, and social success among students with learning differences and/or ADHD.Responsibilities included data entering and assisting with quantitative data analysis of the findings using SPSS software.

The psychometric Entrance Test (PET) is the Israeli equivalent of the American SAT test.Main responsibilities:▪ Taught 4-hour long lessons three times a week. The class size was small (~20 students) and allowed me to maintain an interactive classroom environment with a highly personalized approach to students. ▪ Conducted individual and classroom tutoring sessions regularly and replied to students' questions online▪ Evaluated academic needs of individual students to develop specific learning strategy plans based on their learning differences

Served as a boot-camp commander of recruits from challenging backgrounds, many of whom had overcome significant obstacles such as substance use recovery, experiences with the justice system, interrupted education, and housing insecurity. First at the Squad level (15 soldiers), then at the Platoon level (65 soldiers), and finally at the company level (190+ soldiers).This role required me to handle command, training, discipline, and introducing soldiers to weapons, field, two-way radio, first aid treatment, physical fitness, and more. In addition, the role includes taking responsibility for the process of adaptation of the new soldiers to the military system and the introduction of military norms, values, and rules. Accomplishments:Conceived and implemented 2 initiatives: a redesign of the Air Force basic-training program, reducing training time by ~15%, and an onboarding program for Army trained commanders transitioning to the Air-force.Awards & Honors: ▪ Two-times honorary mention for bravery and outstanding behavior (during officers academy and my role as platoon commander).▪ Awarded accelerated promotion to officers school, and the role of Company Commander.

Recruited, interviewed, and trained new volunteers and managed existing volunteers.Planned, organized, and conducted awareness and outreach events to connect the organization with the community and represented the organization on relevant platforms in the city and region.