Shachar Mirkin

About Me

I am a freelance applied researcher (PhD) with 20+ years of hands-on expertise in NLP, AI (& GenAI), machine learning, and data science, spanning industry and academia.

I have worked in research institutes, startups, and corporations, successfully bringing AI projects from design to production across domains, including legal, finance, and healthcare/biomedical. I have nearly 10 years of experience as a manager and team leader, co-supervising graduate students and mentoring interns and junior colleagues.

I hold a in Computer Science specializing in NLP, have completed 3½ years of postdoctoral research, and published multiple patents and academic articles at top-tier venues, Google Scholar (4000 citations; h-index: 21; i10 index: 33).

I'm based in France and open for remote projects as a freelancer. Contact me to hear more.

Recent Work

I cannot share much about my clients' projects, but check out my academic research and these little snippets to learn more about my other work.