Youval Bitner

Youval Bitner has several years of experience in data science and analytics. Youval currently works as a Senior NLP Data Scientist at Symphony, where they apply natural language processing techniques to analyze and extract insights from data. Prior to this, Youval worked at Sparks AB as a Data Scientist from 2019 to 2022. In this role, they researched, trained, and deployed neural networks and classical machine learning models for time-series classification. Youval also optimized prediction pipelines by developing additional features and layers. Before their role at Sparks AB, Youval worked as a Data Analyst at Gett from 2017 to 2019. Here, they led complex quantitative research on transportation marketplace dynamics and user incentives, leveraging SQL and Python for data extraction, analysis, statistical hypothesis testing, and visualizations. Youval collaborated closely with product teams and top leadership as the analytics domain expert.

Youval Bitner completed a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Economics at Tel Aviv University from 2015 to 2017. Prior to that, from 2012 to 2015, they obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Economics and History, also from Tel Aviv University. Youval has also pursued additional certifications in various areas, such as Sequence Models and Neural Networks and Deep Learning from Coursera in 2020, Statistical Learning from Stanford University in 2020, Applied Machine Learning in Python from Coursera in 2019, and Introduction to Data Science in Python from Coursera in 2018. Youval has also acquired a certification in SQL for Data Science, but specific details regarding the institution and date of acquisition are not provided.