He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was a Research Scientist at HP Labs in the Silicon Valley, and a Senior Research Scientist at LinkedIn. Recently, he was a co-founder and CTO of CandorMap, a Big Data Mining company specializing in patent understanding, and an advisor to Implisit, an email understanding company that was acquired by SalesForce in 2016. He has authored numerous papers on text mining, machine learning, and social network analysis. He is the corresponding co-editor of the book "Scaling Up Machine Learning" published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.