Nir Yosef Ailon

Nir Ailon has had vast experience in data science, algorithms, machine learning and AI for over 20 years. Among his roles before teaching at IE, he had served as an associate professor at Technion Israel Institute of Technology for 12 years, and as a researcher at Google for two years. He has been awarded a European Research Commission (ERC) research grant for over 1M Euros (2017-2022). More recently has co-founded and has been heading an AI adaptation effort for a digital health company owna.health, and performed research for a deep learning technology company deci.ai. His current research passion lies in generative AI, especially training and using large language models. He is passionate about teaching machine learning and AI, and also about playing jazz guitar.

Corporate Experience

• Researcher, deci.ai,, 2022 - Present

• Co-founder and head of AI, owna.health, 2022 - Present

• Consultant for pinecone.io, 2020

• Researcher at Yahoo! Research, 2010 - 2013

• Researcher at Google Research, New York, 2008 - 2010

Academic Experience

• Adjunct professor of machine learning and AI, IE University, Spain, 2023 - Present

• Associate professor of computer science, Technion, Israel, 2010 - 2022

Academic Background

• PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2002 - 2006

• M.Sc in Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2000 - 2002

• B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1996 - 2000