Eli Osherovich
Google Research at Wand
Haifa District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Osherovich is a senior executive and founder with 15+ years of experience building and leading R&D teams and shipping production AI products across companies like Google, Amazon, Yandex and Intel. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science from Technion) with hands-on expertise in NLP/NLU, computer vision, machine learning, image signal processing and large-scale inverse problems, often taking projects from research to production. As co‑founder and former CTO of Wand and a recent engineering leader at Google, he blends startup agility with enterprise-scale program delivery. He contributes to open-source ML tooling—improving Keras preprocessing image transforms and removing dependencies to streamline the library—highlighting a practical focus on robustness and deployability. Based in Haifa, Israel, he’s known for scaling teams and products in cutting-edge perception and language systems while bridging research and applied engineering.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Russian, Hebrew
Github Skills (7)
affine-transformation10
image-augmentation10
python10
numpy10
testing9
computer-vision9
keras8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
keras-team/keras-preprocessing
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Utilities for working with image data, text data, and sequence data.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eli made several contributions focused on improving and refining the image processing functionalities of the Keras preprocessing library. They addressed issues related to affine transformations, specifically correcting matrix center calculations and ensuring proper axis handling. The user's work involved modifying existing functions and adding tests to validate these transformations. Furthermore, they removed a scipy dependency to streamline the library.
text-datasequencepythonimage-data
eli-osherovich/eol
Aug 2010 - Nov 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 3 months
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