Ron Bekkerman. Ron Bekkerman joined the Department of Information and Knowledge Management as a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in October 2013.
In 2012-2013 he served as Chief Data Officer of Carmel Ventures, the leading Israeli VC fund. He is an Advisory Board member of a number of Israeli startup companies. Prior to that, Ron worked as a Senior Research Scientist at LinkedIn, where he was among the founding members of LinkedIn’s Data Science team. Before LinkedIn, he was a Research Scientist at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. Over the past 14 years, Ron’s research spanned the areas of Data Mining and Machine Learning, which aim to create novel models and algorithms suitable for a variety of practical tasks in statistical data analysis. Edi Weitz, Lisp. LingPipe Blog. The world according to matpalm.