Kevin Benassuly

Senior Data Scientist | LLM & AI Engineering

Salary / Daily rate

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

LLMs / Large language modelsMachine LearningDeep LearningData ScienceData Analysis

Languages

Hebrew (Native)French (Native)English (Fluent)

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.

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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

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