Experienced researcher and research group manager in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. Vast experience in academia and industry. Ph.D, Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), Bar-Ilan University M.Sc, Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Cum Laude B.Sc, Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Summa Cum Laude Specialties: Natural Language Processing, Textual Inference, Information Extraction,Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Hebrew Processing.

Research Staff Member @ Member of the Machine Learning for Text Analytics group at IBM Research - Haifa. From February 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) Tel AvivManager, Algorithms Team @ Leadspace sets a new bar for B2B lead data quality by tapping into social networks and paid contact databases on-demand and identifying super-targeted leads based on myriad social buying indicators. The Leadspace SaaS solution addresses the full lead data needs of modern marketers – from lead lists to ranking and enhancement of web leads and sales prospecting. I headed the company's research and development in the areas of data and text mining, machine learning, information retrieval, text categorization, information extraction and semantic clustering. From October 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 4 months) IsraelManager, Text Mining Group @ Built and managed a large R&D team consisting of five research engineers and three domain experts. My team developed The Stock Sonar, a state of the art stock sentiment analysis engine based on precise information extraction. The Stock Sonar was chosen by Dow Jones to provide sentiment analysis and event extraction for their content. Research results were published in the IAAI-11 conference. Developed novel methods for finding expert users in stock microblogs (such as StockTwits). Research results were published in the EMNLP 2011 conference. Worked on several other projects in text mining, information extraction and sentiment analysis. Coordinated Digital Trowel’s participation in the SCMS project, a joint project with four European partners that is funded in the EUREKA Eurostars! Programme. From November 2009 to September 2011 (1 year 11 months) Research student in natural language processing @ From March 2005 to October 2009 (4 years 8 months) Research Intern @ Summer internship at the Proteus Project group. Hosted by Prof. Ralph Grishman and Prof. Satoshi Sekine. From August 2007 to September 2007 (2 months) Teaching Assistant @ Courses: Operating Systems, Automata and Formal Languages From February 2005 to September 2007 (2 years 8 months) Teaching Assistant @ Courses: Introduction to Natural Language Processing, File Systems From February 2002 to August 2004 (2 years 7 months) Senior software development team leader @ Successfully managed large-scale software development projects through their entire life cycle, including requirement analysis, design and implementation, deployment, support and maintenance. Technology included multithreading, client/server, messaging protocols and socket programming, databases, MS-Office automation, and GUI. Responsibility included evaluation and recommendation of new technologies. From 1996 to 2002 (6 years) Software Engineer (student position) @ Design and implementation of algorithms for compiler optimization. Co-author of four U.S. patents registered by IBM. From January 1994 to March 1996 (2 years 3 months)

Ph.D, Computer Science @ Bar-Ilan University From 2005 to 2010 M.Sc (Cum Laude), Computer Science @ Technion - Israel Institute of Technology From 2001 to 2005 B.Sc (Summa Cum Laude), Computer Science @ Technion - Israel Institute of Technology From 1992 to 1996 Roy Ph.D is skilled in: Natural Language..., Natural Language..., Information Extraction, Text Mining, Text Analytics, Sentiment Analysis, Hidden Markov Models, Team Management, Team Leadership, Programming, text classification, Algorithms, Semantics, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Computational..., Data Mining, Solr, Computer Science, LaTeX, Multithreading, Artificial Intelligence, Text Classification, Software Design, Software Engineering, Semantic Technologies, Software Development, Big Data, Java