Aya Soffer
Israeli computer scientist
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Aya Chasia Soffer (Hebrew: איה סופר) is an Israeli computer scientist, vice president for AI Technology in IBM Research, and the director of IBM's Israel research laboratory.[1]
- Hebrew U. (B.S.)
- U. of Maryland (Ph.D.)
Aya Soffer | |
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| Education |
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| Employer | IBM |
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| Thesis | Retrieval by Content in Symbolic-Image Databases (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hanan Samet |
| Website | IBM Research profile |
Education and career
Soffer is the daughter of two scientists.[2] She received her bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986[2][3] and worked in the medical imaging industry for four years[2] before continuing to the department of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park where she received a master's degree in 1992 and her PhD in 1995.[4] Her dissertation, Retrieval by Content in Symbolic-Image Databases, concerned information retrieval, and was supervised by Hanan Samet.[5]
After receiving her PhD she worked for the Goddard Space Flight Center as a research scientist working on NASA digital libraries for Earth science data. She began working at IBM in 1999.[4] She was part of the IBM Watson project,[6] and beginning in 2012, IBM's Project Debater, before taking on her current responsibilities as vice president for AI Technology and head of the Haifa laboratory for IBM Research.[2]