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Kfir Bar

Chief Scientist at Basis Technology

Kfir Bar is a distinguished professional in the field of natural language processing (NLP), currently serving as the Chief Scientist at Basis Technology. With a strong background in various NLP disciplines such as statistical machine translation, named entity recognition, and digital-humanity applications, Kfir excels at combining linguistic knowledge with AI algorithms to extract vital information from text. Prior to his role at Basis Technology, Kfir held positions such as CTO at IntuView, where he supported national security and counter-terrorism efforts through authorship deduction, sentiment analysis, and intent assessment. In 2013, Kfir co-founded Comprendi, a company specializing in transforming big data into actionable marketing insights, achieving notable success with major advertisers across different sectors. Notably, Kfir's team clinched the 2016 Twitter #Promote challenge, earning a cash prize of $250K.

Kfir's academic contributions extend beyond industry, as he imparts knowledge as a lecturer at prestigious Israeli universities such as Tel Aviv University, COLMAN, and IDC, teaching courses encompassing computer science, digital humanities, machine learning, and natural language processing. Holding a Ph.D. in computer science from Tel Aviv University, Kfir's research focuses on semantics and machine translation, with his thesis titled

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Somerville, Massachusetts, United States