Portrait of Michael Chein

Michael Chein

Senior data scientist

Experience

  1. 2023 – 2026

    Modeling Lead, R&D · QuantHealth

    Clinical-trial simulation for pharma. Built the patient-enrollment prediction product, in production at several top-20 pharma companies, and led causal-inference methodology for the company's clinical foundation model.

  2. 2022 – 2023

    Data Scientist · StuffThatWorks

    Language models and causal models on patient-reported medical data.

  3. 2019 – 2022

    Data Scientist · IBM

    Production models for health, defense, construction and automotive clients, including Hebrew medical NLP.

  4. 2018 – 2019

    Software Developer · Center for Innovations in Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University

    EEG and movement detection, signal processing and machine learning.

  5. 2016 – 2018

    Co-founder & Development Team Lead · Parcell

    Node.js backend for a location-based iOS app.

  6. 2012 – 2019

    PhD Candidate & Teaching Assistant · Tel Aviv University

    Research on BDNF in ALS and plasma membrane dynamics.

Education

  • PhD, Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, 2019
  • B.Sc., Psychology and Life Sciences, summa cum laude, The Open University of Israel, 2012

Publications & patents

Projects

Chatter Radar Open source soon

A self-hosted app that watches the chats you choose, such as a class parents' WhatsApp group, and turns the messages that matter into a task list.

Screen-time rewards for kids

Kids earn internet time with quizzes and AI-generated tasks. Pi-hole controls access; the app is in Hebrew, built with Expo / React Native.

Parcell 2016–2018

A location-based iOS app for leaving photos, audio, text and video at GPS locations. Co-founded; built the Node.js backend.

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