Yura Zharkovsky

Yura Zharkovsky has a strong background in artificial intelligence and deep learning. Yura is currently working as the Director of AI at Autobrains Technologies, starting in October 2022. Prior to that, they worked at Percepto - Autonomous Drones where they held multiple positions. As an AI Deep Learning Team Leader from August 2020 to October 2022, they managed a team of developers and conducted research in deep learning perception and 3D modeling. Yura also served as a Deep Learning Computer Vision Architect from March 2019 to August 2020, where they designed and built ML platforms and developed computer vision algorithms for autonomous drones. Yura's previous experience includes a role as a Deep Learning Computer Vision Researcher at Innoviz Technologies from January 2018 to March 2019. Yura also has a significant history with IBM, where they worked as an Advisory Machine Learning Researcher, Team Leader in cybersecurity and big data, and a Software Engineer from 2006 to 2018. Additionally, Yura worked as a Software Engineer at Valor from 2004 to 2006.

Yura Zharkovsky has a strong educational background in both engineering and biomedical/medical fields. They obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2003. They then pursued a Master's degree in Biomedical/Medical Engineering from the same institution from 2011 to 2013.

In addition to their formal education, Yura has obtained several certifications in the field of Machine Learning. They completed courses such as "Machine Learning: Clustering & Retrieval," "Machine Learning: Classification," "Machine Learning: Regression," and "Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach" from Coursera Course Certificates. These certifications were obtained between 2015 and 2016.

Yura's educational journey started at Makif Alef from 1992 to 1999, although no degree or field of study information is provided for this period.