Uri Shahar is a highly accomplished data scientist with a wealth of experience in optimization, classification, recommendation systems, prediction, clustering, modeling, and other research problems. He has a proven track record of successfully leading and executing a wide range of research projects that contribute to the corporate bottom line. Uri holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, and completed his PhD studies, Cum Laude, in Bioinformatics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Uri has held several positions in various organizations, including Head of Data at Monte Carlo, Data Science Consultant at BlueVine and Localize.city, Chief Science Officer at Riskified, Data Scientist at Wix.com, Algorithm Developer at Made4Net, Founder & CTO at Strudel AlgoTrade, VP R&D at Codex, Researcher at Metacafe, Server Team Manager at TopTier, Project Manager at NetAccess, Infrastructure Team Manager at Memco, Developer at Onyx Technologies, and Developer at Tadiran Communications.