
Kevin Benassuly
Senior Data Scientist | LLM & AI Engineering
Salary / Daily rate
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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About me
Intro
Senior Data Scientist with 6+ years specializing in NLP and LLM applications that drive measurable business impact. Delivered automated grading systems reducing manual work by 60%, IT ticket classification cutting resolution time by 20%, and semantic search solutions improving efficiency by 15%. Expert in building production-ready AI pipelines with explainability and bias detection for enterprise-scale challenges.
Work experience
Senior Data Scientist/ AI Engineer
Sense Education
Apr 2024 - Jan 2026
1 year 10 months
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
– Built a rubric-grounded automated grading pipeline for large universities, using ML for high-confidence cases and LLMs for ambiguous long-tail grading, reducing manual grading by 60%. – Implemented explainability-gated predictions and automated detection of grader bias, inconsistencies, and rubric issues to continuously improve grading quality.
Data Scientist
Atera
Apr 2021 - Oct 2023
2 years 7 months
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
– Managed temporarily a cross-functional team of data scientists, data analysts and data annotators to automate IT support ticket classification (50+ classes). – Designed and built the incident categorization algorithm that makes IT management more efficient, resulting in a 20% reduction in ticket resolution time. – Researched LLM applications for virtual assistant and text summarization projects aimed to relieve IT experts from time-consuming and repetitive queries, accounting for 30% of their tasks.
NLP Data Scientist
Amenity Analytics
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
2 years 2 months
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
– Trained a Named Entity Recognizer to extract meaningful financial insights from corporate annual reports. – Built a fast-paced semantic search algorithm using BERT architecture and Elasticsearch indexing, resulting in a 15% reduction in time complexity. – Implemented various time series forecasting techniques to predict key company performance measures as a new product feature, increasing conversions by 15%.
Education
Israel Tech Challenge
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning
2018 - 2019
1 year 1 month
ESCP Europe
Master in Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Business, Finance
2015 - 2018
3 years 1 month
Université Paris Dauphine
Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics
2012 - 2015
3 years 1 month