My name is Philippe Adjiman. I live in Israel, currently working as a Data Science Manager at Google (c.f. disclaimer at the end), and more specifically on Waze. Previously i was a Data Science team leader at Outbrain. I’ve received my PhD in Artificial intelligence from Paris 11 University in 2006 (when AI was not that hype yet) where I worked on both fundamental and applied research on distributed reasoning in Peer-to-Peer settings and its application to the Semantic Web. My PhD thesis led to multiple publications in top AI conferences and journals.
My passion is around turning (huge) data into user value, by applying Machine Learning in production. I love doing it with the team at Waze 
, ebaY and more.
Earlier in my career, I’ve also implemented several complex systems in C and JAVA (I had fun in particular in one of my earliest projects called SPOT, a statistically well founded universal bet generator algorithm used by millions of French and European horse races gamblers every day, I love the commercial they did around it 🙂 ).
This blog is mainly about my obsession of constantly learning new stuff, and then sharing it. My main interests are around Machine Learning and Deep Learning (theory and practice), or my older explorations around
In particular, I’m a big fan of hadoop and its ecosystem so I started a series of tutorials around it.
explaining Deep Learning concepts, or experiences or experiments with some advanced technologies I’m using at work or for fun during my part time (in particular, check the posts tagged experiments).
I hope you’ll enjoy this blog.
Of course, the opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company.
You can contact me at adjiman at gmail dot com.