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Name
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Yonatan Ben-Simhon |
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Birth year
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1976 |
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Address
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P.O. Box 23458
Tel-Aviv, Israel |
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Tel
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(+972) 544-912-449 |
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Email
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yonatantsav![[at]](images/shtru.gif){kind=small} hotmail.com
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| HomePage | www.yonatantsav.com |
| 2003-2006 |
PhD candidate in computer science, computational biology and medicine program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. |
| 2001-2003 |
MA in applied mathematics, bioinformatics course, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1997-2001 |
BSc with honors in computer science, bioinformatics course, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. |
| 1994-5 |
Studies mathematics, physics and computer science, as part of I.D.F. air forces 'Talpiot' project, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. |
| 2003-2006 |
Tri-Institutional Fellowship in Computational Biology and Medicine, Cornell University, Rockefeller University, Sloan Kettering Institute. |
| 2003-2004 | Presidential Genomic Fellowship, Cornell University. |
| 2001-2003 | Fulbright Doctoral Fellow. |
| 2002 | Summer fellowship award, USC. |
| 2000-2001 |
'The Best to the Industry' scholarship, awarded by the ministry of Industry and Trade, Israel. |
| 1999-2001 |
'Eshkol' scholarship in applied mathematics, awarded by the ministry of Science, Israel. |
| 1999 |
Excellence prize (dean prize) for scholarly achievements in the natural sciences faculty, Ben Gurion University, Israel. |
| 1997-9 |
Excellence prize from the Rector's office, Ben Gurion University, Israel. |
| 1993 | Semi finalist of the Israeli physics Olympiad. |
| 2006-Present |
Principal Software Developer at AOL Relegence Israel - Developed state of the art IR, NLP and information flow analysis algorithms for high throughput real time text analysis. - Managed a team of 4 workers. - Lead brain storming and system design sessions. |
| 2005 |
Teaching assistant for professor R. Elber in the course “Numerical Methods in
Computational Molecular Biology”, Cornell. - Planning and conducting sections in mathematics and computer science topics to a class of 25 students from multiple disciplines. - Composing assignments, posting solutions, grading, holding office hours and teaching Matlab programming. - Rated highly by the students through anonymous evaluation. |
| 2003 |
Teaching assistant for professor W. Proskurowski in the course “Calculus II”,
USC. - Conducted sections in advanced calculus and Matlab programming to a class of 40 engineering students. - Rated highly by the students through anonymous evaluation. |
| 2002 |
Teaching assistant for professor W. Proskurowski in the course “Calculus for
Business”, USC.
- Participated in an experimental teaching environment where professor and TA work simultaneously in a classroom. - Rated highly by the students through anonymous evaluation. - Successful performance: review sections were full at 3 times the class size; class students averaged higher on common final of 7 classes. |
| 1998-2001 |
Private tutor for college undergraduates in computer science, mathematics and
physics. - Significantly improved students’ grades in multiple courses and through multiple disciplines. |
| 1995-1997 |
Developer and experimentalist in an R&D group at a technological unit of the
Israeli defense forces. - Developed devices aimed at saving human lives as a part of a technological R&D group. - Led a project with 2 direct subordinates. - Planned and executed both lab and field experiments as part of research. - Consulted other R&D groups in field of specialty. - Designated “excelling soldier” – a nomination that included early promotion in rank. |
| 2005 |
“Structural alignment with gaps for proteins using the URMS method“. - Numerical methods speed computations of URMS distance of protein pairs in a dynamic algorithm approach. |
| 2005 |
“Indirect space sampling methods for the HP model for protein folding”. - Replacing structure space with matrix space improves space-sampling AI algorithms (MC, GA, etc.) searches. |
| 2000-2001 |
“An approximation algorithm for finding minimal energy in the 2D HP model for
protein folding” .- An approximation algorithm for an NP-hard problem using model-dependant heuristic for pruning the search tree. |
| 1999-2000 |
“Web based software for comparison of protein structures”. - An approximation algorithm for the NP-hard “subset” problem specialized for aligned protein structures comparisons. Greedy extension of short promising contiguous subsets. |
| Feb 2008 |
“Real Time Semantic Web”
– ISOC-IL, Israeli Internet Association Conference, Ramat Gan, Israel |
| June 2007 |
“High Throughput Real-Time IR solution for the Financial Community”
– Information Retrieval/Search Technologies Seminar, IBM Haifa labs, Israel |
| March 2007 |
“MyBag – Handbags Promoting Self Expression”
– IFAWC, The Fourth International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 1998-2001 |
Tutor for Bedouin, immigrant and learning disabled students, through the student's dean. |
| 1998-9 |
Instructor for a child suffering from cerebral palsy, through 'Perach' project. |
| 1997-8 |
Instructor for a deaf, challenged and mentally ill teen-ager, through 'Perach' project. |
| 1991-2 | Volunteer at a mentally ill club, though 'Enosh' foundation. |
| Human | English, Hebrew |
| Computer | C#, C, C++, Java, Perl, Matlab, SQL, HTML |
| Massage | Swedish, Deep Tissue, Hot Stones |