Taranis is a leading precision agriculture intelligence platform that uses sophisticated computer vision, data science and deep learning algorithms to effectively monitor fields. Taranis offers a full-stack solution for high precision aerial surveillance imagery to prevent crop yield loss due to insects, crop disease, weeds, and nutrient deficiencies.As head of AI I am managing a team of AI engineers and researchers to solve statistical modeling and Computer Vision problems using classic Machine Learning and advanced Deep Learning architectures. Responsible for defining AI roadmap, research plan, Israeli Innovation Authority (IIA) projects, managing internal and external interfaces (PMG, R&D, Data specialists, consultants, infrastructures etc.)

Managing a small algorithmic research team with a vast range of skills solving a variety of product challenges. Experienced with Deep Learning architectures for Sequential Analysis (RNN, LSTM); Unsupervised Neural Networks (Auto-Encoders); Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN); Compressed Video Analytics; Statistical Modeling and Forecasting. Working mostly with Pyhthon and C++.I am also a member of the product house management team and serving as an innovation manager in the unit.Team Leader responsibilities:- Managing Talents- Building, maintaining and managing a research and production plan under Agile methodology- Coordinating with product managers- Coordinating development of cross team features (as Product Owner)- Hands on research 60%Innovation Manager responsibilities:- Collecting business challenges- Managing innovation events- Coordinating with other innovation managers in the organization- Supporting talents and their managersProduct House Management responsibilities:- Taking active part in managing discussions and decisions- Leading cross unit activities

Managing the video analytics R&D SCRUM team which includes algorithm researchers (C++, Matlab & Python), SW developers (.Net) and QA testers. As part of my role I assumed the scrum-master (SM) role and the product owner (PO) role (since 2015).Apart from building the team I had to redefine the whole R&D team's road-map and realign it to the unit's strategy working closely with region leaders, product managers and product house management. As an R&D team we delivered complex cross product features including innovative analytics and UX yielding multiple patents.My responsibilities include:Team Lead [TL]; since 2014- Team build- Personal development plan and personal road-map for team members- Building and maintaining the team's road-map- Research and release planning- Talent management in a hybrid team- 20% Hands on researchProduct Owner [PO]; since 2015- Bridging between PH R&D and the business (PMG)- Managing cross functional contents- Grooming and pruning the team's backlog - Release managementAdditional responsibilities:- Managing the OCS program of the unit (governmental support for generic R&D programs) including building a multiyear research plan and managing it internally and externally; since 2014.- Leading the innovation activities and processes in the unit; since 2016.- Defining the R&D product strategy and road-map together with PMG and managing relevant marketing and regional interfaces; since 2017.

Member of the Video Analytics engine team responsible for the development and engineering of Video Processing and Machine Learning algorithms. As a member of the team I was:- Reviewing relevant articles and defining relevant solutions to different algorithmic challenges- Defining accuracy and robustness testing methodology and developing relevant tools- Implementing and testing statistical and mathematical models for predictions- Implementing and testing algorithms for video tracking, background subtraction, queue management etc.- Algorithmic research and tests were mostly implemented in Matlab.- Algorithms were implemented mostly in C++.

Studied and experimented with SEO factors including:- Getting updated with literature and recent conventions- Conducting experiments- Defining\Developing research related systems to crawl, analyze and log SEO related parameters