Yishai Shimoni was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1974. He received his BSc in physics and computer science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (HUJI) and continued to do his MSc and Ph.D. in physics at HUJI, receiving his Ph.D. in 2008. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and then received a junior faculty position at Columbia University in the systems biology department before moving to IBM Research in Israel in 2015. He authored 25 papers and 4 patents and released two open-source packages, one in R and one in python. His research in the last few years is focused on around applying causal inference methods to clinical retrospective data.
Biophysics