Research Team

TaKaDu's Water Infrastucture Monitoring approach requires the application of network intelligence to get the insight utilities need into their water networks. That's why we have a pure research function within our company.

Taking sparse and noisy data and using it to detect the inivisible requires research power in mathematical and algorithmic areas with a unique blend of approximation algorithms, Graph Theory, Time-Series analysis, and even Computational Biology. TaKaDu's research team focuses on solving the thorny problems created by the data.

Members of our research team include:

Dr. Amitai Armon

Amitai Armon joined TaKaDu as part of its founding team in early 2009 and leads research in the Company. Prior to joining Takadu, Amitai was a visiting research scholar at the Los-Alamos National Lab (USA), where he analyzed U.S. urban activities data. Previously, Amitai served 7 years in the Israeli Defense Forces, in a research branch of an elite technological unit. He led several research projects and R&D teams, and received both personal and team excellence awards.

Dr. Shai Gutner

Shai Gutner joined TaKaDu at its founding stage. Shai served 8 years in an elite R&D unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, where he led several award-winning data mining software projects. Later on in Schema Ltd., Shai led the team responsible for developing optimization solutions for narrowband cellular networks, while using genetic algorithms and unique heuristics. As part of his work, he developed an innovative genetic algorithms library, in cooperation with the IlliGAL lab at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Chaim Linhart

Chaim Linhart joined TaKaDu in October 2009 as a Senior Researcher. Prior to TaKaDu, Chaim worked as a senior software engineer at nLayers (acquired by EMC), the industry's first complete configuration management database (CMDB) infrastructure solution. Previously, Chaim worked as Research Manager at Sanctum (acquired by IBM), the leader in automated web application security firewall. Prior to Sanctum, Chaim worked at VocalTec Communications, a VoIP pioneer.

Raz Ziv

Raz Ziv joined TaKaDu's research team in 2010. Prior to joining TaKaDu, Raz headed an algorithm development and operations research group at IMI, in the fields of signal processing and others. Prior to that he was a physicist at IMI, specializing in simulations and algorithm creation.

Noam Petrank

Noam Petrank joined TaKaDu's research team in 2010. Prior to joining TaKaDu, Noam served in the military in an elite technological unit for five years, working in research and algorithms development.

When he was 18, Noam received a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University.

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