Dr. Asi Messica is a senior data science manager and lecturer at Reichman University, with extensive experience leading AI-driven innovation. She has held senior data science, product, and development management roles at Lightricks, Fiverr, SAP, RSA, and more. Asi earned her Ph.D. in recommender systems from Ben-Gurion University. Her professional interests include machine learning, personalization, recommender systems, information retrieval, and NLP/LLM.
| 8:45 | Reception |
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| 9:30 | Opening remarks by WiDS TLV ambassadors |
| 9:45 | Dr. Mor Geva , Tel Aviv University: “MRI for Large Language Models: Mechanistic Interpretability from Neurons to Attention Heads” |
| 10:15 |
Panel: “Pioneering Progress: a strategic look at the GenAI revolution and the new role of data scientists“ Shani Gershtein, Melingo Mirit Elyada Bar, Intuit Dr. Asi Messica, Lightricks Moderated by Nitzan Gado, Intuit |
| 10:45 | Poster pitches |
| 10:55 | Break |
| 11:10 | Lightning talks session |
| 12:30 | Lunch & poster session |
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| 13:30 | Roundtable session & poster session |
| 14:30 | Roundtable closing |
| 14:40 | Shunit Agmon, Technion: “Bridging the Gender Gap in Clinical AI: Temporal Adaptation with TeDi-BERT” |
| 15:00 | Shaked Naor Hoffmann, Apartment List: “Building Generative AI Agents for Production: Turning Ideas into Real-World Applications” |
| 15:20 | Closing remarks |
| 15:30 | The end |