Reut Apel Email & Phone Number

Israel

• Leading machine learning and deep learning projects reaching millions ofusers. Researching, developing, and improving NLP capabilities in Office 365• Working on text rephrasing from meeting transcript using LLMs.Fine-tuning GPT-3 for action item rephrasing task• Led an end-to-end project for the development of an NLP algorithm fordetecting urgent emails, from the problem definition phase to the integrationinto production

Conducted research on question answering in meeting transcripts. Curateda dataset and developed a dedicated deep learning model to solve thisproblem: A BERT-based model with a novel flat hierarchical loss function

Project advisor for design projects in machine learning, Undergraduate students in data science and engineering. The projects were focused on natural language processing in the persuasion domain

Frontal teaching assistant for Probability, Undergraduate students in data science and engineering, computer science, and industrial engineering and management

Conducted an R&D data science project end to end: Including data understanding, exploring algorithmic approaches, model development, and model evaluation based on customers' requirements. One example is developing a machine learning solution for bug classification

Worked on data science projects, including Big Data technologies: Conducted deep data analysis and developed new data science solutions. Defined product features and worked closely with the development team. Engaged with international customers to gather requirements and implement solutions

Representative of the Student Association for academic issues of the undergraduate students, Industrial Engineering and Management faculty, Technion

* Co-Led and mentored a group of ten 11th graders in a six month preparation process, and in a 3 month mission across North America, sharing their lives in Israel, and representing the Israeli culture* Managed relations with various Jewish communities that hosted our delegation, including planning of social and educational events, to strengthen the connection between the communities and Israel* Operational management of budget, scheduling, and traveling across North America in an RV

* Completed with honors an intensive track for a Captain Rank* Managed the training department that consisted of 50 soldiers and four female officers, divided into four teams* Built and implemented the entire training program of all new soldiers in the “Golani” Brigade.* Responsible for the quality, ongoing development, and management of the training program.

* Base Award of Excellence recipient* Commanded and taught four 10-week-long courses for female operations officers' training program* Managed the Platoon’s headquarters during two courses* Wrote, developed, and planned the training program

• Managed the full process of operational events• Supervised a team of 15 soldiers in the operations room

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Data Science, 96.7

Focused on machine learning, Natural Language Processing, and decision making. Research thesis: Language-based persuasion games..

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Data Science And Engineering, 93.7, Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Academic Coordinator - Representative of the Student Association for academic issues of the undergraduate.