HSHaggai Scolnicov
Tel Aviv, Israel · operatorIsraeli AI/data-science founder and technologist. Represented Israel at the 1994 International Mathematical Olympiad (Honorable Mention). Graduated with honours from the IDF Talpiot mathematics-physics program with a BSc in Mathematics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1994-1997). Co-founded TaKaDu (water-network analytics) and served as its CTO; was Chief Scientist of Onavo through its acquisition by Meta/Facebook and then a Data Scientist at Facebook Israel; Head of IoTA at AGT International; founder of vantage.team; co-founder of blockchain fintech venture Solid Financial; co-founder and CEO of Optimeet AI; currently building Reasonable AI and advising companies on AI/data. Holds patents on water-network monitoring and co-authored an academic paper on knots.
- Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No role or internship at a quantitative investment, trading, market-making, hedge-fund, or systematic/algorithmic trading firm was found. His finance-adjacent roles are Solid Financial (blockchain/crypto fintech co-founder, 2018-2020) and FinText (data-science advisor at a financial-services content-marketing company, 2020-), neither of which operates in quantitative trading; the remaining career is AI/data-science and software (TaKaDu, Onavo/Facebook, AGT, Optimeet, Reasonable AI). Identity is corroborated by the IMO 1994 record, Hebrew University/Talpiot education, and cross-linked profiles, but no quant-finance employment is evidenced.
- Optimeet AI: Co-founder and CEO; TechCrunch quotes him in that role on Israel's political crisis and the tech industry (Apr 2023, and again Jul 2023).Apr 4, 2023
- Onavo: Chief Scientist; Onavo was acquired by Meta/Facebook, after which he led an Onavo-based Data Science team as a senior individual contributor at Facebook Israel (2013-2014).2013
- TaKaDu: CTO and New Initiatives (2017-2018), having earlier co-founded the company; co-author of the 2011 Water Science & Technology paper on algorithmic network monitoring for water utilities.2011
- Education: BSc in Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1994-1997), via the IDF's Talpiot mathematics-physics program; his profile states he graduated with honours.1997
- IMO 1994: represented Israel, scored 15/42 (P3=6, P6=7), placed 230th, Honorable Mention; matches the Olympiad identity anchor.Jul 1994
- Solid Financial (2018-2020, Co-Founder): described as aiming to democratise finance and financial instruments using blockchain technology - a blockchain/crypto fintech venture, not a quantitative trading firm.2018
- Named inventor on water-network monitoring patents assigned to TaKaDu Ltd (e.g. EP2472467A1, with Shai Gutner and others).2012
- Academic: research done jointly in 1998/99 as a student of Dror Bar-Natan on the Goussarov filtration of knots, acknowledged in 'Bracelets and the Goussarov Filtration of the Space of Knots' (arXiv math/0111267).1999
- Profile summary: 'I've been in Data Science and AI and related fields for thirty-ish years, starting from a technical / research background'; currently building 'Reasonable AI' and hiring AI researchers (LinkedIn, index backbone).
- FinText (Data Science Advisor, 2020-): a financial-services content-marketing/tech company writing investment content for fund clients; finance-adjacent marketing, not quantitative trading or portfolio management.2020
- vantage.team: founder (2016-2017); the job-matching startup shut down, announced Feb 9 2017.Feb 9, 2017
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