cv

Basics

Work

  • 2024.11 - Present
    Scientific & Technological Consultant
    Deliberate.ai & Salma Health
    • Developed multimodal AI diagnostic tools for mental health, optimizing feature selection and design while maintaining high model performance.
    • Designed and strategized evidence-based mental health evaluation products leveraging NLP, audio, facial expressions, and behavioral analytics.
  • 2023.10 - 2024.11
    Research Scientist
    Interventional Psychiatry Center, UC San Diego Health. San Diego, California, US
    • Awarded with a Milken Institute Baszucki Brain Research Grant to develop a brain-stimulation intervention targeting a brain-circuitry to treat bipolar disorder and developing response biomarkers. Led this clinical trial and published the results recently.
    • Awarded with Young Investigator NARSAD Grant to develop of a machine learning depression clinical grade biomarker integrating fMRI, DTI and TMS-EEG.
    • Served as co-investigator in a DARPA-funded trial and developed a personalized treatment-targeting for depression in traumatic brain injury using multimodal neurophysiological data analysis.
    • Served as co-investigator in a NIH R61/R33 clinical trial for developing an EEG pipeline to personalize theta-burst brain stimulation frequency in depressed patients.
    • Collaborated with healthcare, academia, and industry partners to validate prototypes and advance clinical applications for FDA approved protocols and devices prototypes.
    • Supervised and mentored students, scientists, and clinical professionals, fostering skill development, research excellence, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
  • 2020.09 - 2023.10
    Project Scientist
    Interventional Psychiatry Center, UC San Diego Health. San Diego, California, US
    • Served as co-investigator in a Wellcome Leap-funded international, multi-site initiative, developing specialized machine learning models for integration into a generalized multi-modal diagnostic framework for anhedonic depression.
    • Established and managed a state-of-the-art clinical research infrastructure for brain stimulation clinical trials, integrating FDA-approved and prototype neuromodulatory technologies with advanced neurophysiological, behavioral and imaging techniques.
    • Designed automated, cloud-based pipelines for preprocessing, brain-stimulation targeting and data QA to support incoming patients processing and research.
    • Led IRB regulatory submissions and ensured full FDA and HIPAA compliance for clinical research operations.
    • Setup electronic health records systems (EHR) to support data-rich clinical trials.
  • 2017.09 - 2020.09
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Temerty Centre, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    • Developed and validated automated signal processing pipelines for EEG and TMS-EEG biomarkers in clinical trials.
    • Built QA, data storage, and time-series analysis pipelines to support personalized treatment approaches.
    • Conducted large-scale analysis (3,800+ patients) of the STAR*D EHR dataset, identifying predictors of suicidality and depression remission using R.
    • Presented posters and gave talks at international conferences about brain stimulation and neuropsychiatric studies.
  • 2017.03 - 2017.09
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Beer Sheva, Israel
    • Developed neurophysiological mechanistic and machine-learning biomarkers.
    • Involved in Deep-rTMS clinical trials for FDA indications, such as: ADHD, Substance Dependence (nicotine and alcohol), Depression, OCD.

Education

  • Beer Sheva, Israel

    PhD, MSc, B.Sc
    Ben Gurion University of the Negev
    Biomedical Sciences

Awards

Projects

Volunteer

  • 2023 - Present
    Editorial Board Member
    Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
    Reviewed and helped facilitate over 90 manuscripts, dealing with brain electrophysiology, neuromodulation, behavioral tasks and computational analysis methods.
  • 2022 - Present
    Social Media Editor
    Brain Stimulation Journal
    Curate weekly paper summaries to promote young investigators' publications on Twitter/X, growing engagement and followers. Created LinkedIn page highlighting investigators' publications and conference activities, reaching 2,200 followers to date.

Publications

Languages

Hebrew
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Neuromodulatory Mechanism
Neuomodulation
TMS
Brain Circuits
Psychiatric Neurophysiological Markers
Brain Imaging
Multimodal Markers