Hadas Kotek

Hadas Kotek, PhD, is a seasoned data scientist specializing in natural language processing and linguistics, currently serving as a Senior Data Scientist at Apple since July 2019, with prior roles including Senior Natural Language Annotation Lead and Natural Language Annotation Lead within the Siri team. Academic contributions include positions as a Lecturer at Yale University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University, along with previous lecturing roles at Yale and postdoctoral research at McGill University. Hadas' early career involved research and machine learning coordination at Ontology Ltd, where a multilingual classification algorithm was developed for a knowledge graph targeting cross-language economic relations in the EU. Educational credentials include a PhD in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics from Tel Aviv University.