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Ronen Feldman

Ronen Feldman is an Israeli computer scientist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem business school, known for his work in text mining.

born 1962Pioneering text mining researchFounding ClearForestFounding Amenity AnalyticsThe Text Mining Handbook

Born: 5 June 1962, Tel Aviv
Occupation: computer scientist
Education: Bar-Ilan University, Cornell University

Ronen Feldman was born in 1962 in Tel Aviv

Ronen Feldman was born in Tel Aviv on June 5, 1962. He is the brother of Professor Yuval Feldman. At 16 he won the International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth.

He was in the third class of the Talpiot program, where he earned a bachelor's degree with honors in mathematics, physics and computer science at the Hebrew University. In 1988 he completed a master's degree in computer science at Bar-Ilan University. In 1993 he received a doctorate in computer science, focused on machine learning, from Cornell University.

Feldman was one of the founders of text mining as a field and wrote The Text Mining Handbook, published by Cambridge University Press. In 1997 he founded ClearForest with Yonatan Aumann, and Reuters bought the company in 2007. In 2015 he founded Amenity Analytics with Hadava Feldman and Netanel Sturtz, which builds a platform for natural language processing engines without programming.

His research covers natural language processing, extracting entities and relations from text, sentiment analysis and language processing for algorithmic trading. He has published more than 100 papers.