Profede Announces Ex-Linkedin Data Scientist And Big Data Expert Ron Bekkerman To Join The Advisory Board
Profede is proud to announce that as of today acclaimed data scientist Ron Bekkerman has agreed to join Profede through an official advisory role. Ron Bekkerman is a renowned big data expert specializing in statistical machine learning, social network analysis and text mining. Ron will assist Profede also in the fields of web mining, information extraction, natural language processing, business intelligence and product strategy.
Profede is thrilled to announce that Ron Bekkerman, big data expert and ex-LinkedIn data specialist will join as an advisor. At LinkedIn Ron built a data standardization system which is making big money for LinkedIn as well as performing data analyses that are affecting the product and marketing strategy. Profede has much to learn from Ron’s expertise and knowledge in this field.
Ron has a PhD in Machine Learning and is currently Assistant Professor of Data Science at the University of Haifa. Ron is also an Advisor to Implisit, a data-intelligence startup based in Israel, which was acquired by Salesforce for a reported tens of millions of dollars and he is also an advisor to various other startups.
There is no better person to advise Profede on big data than Ron Bekkerman. Ron is a proven expert as a data scientist and in machine learning. His experience and skills will aid in the creation of Profede’s protocol to revolutionize the professional industry. With Ron onboard we feel confident in Profede’s success to reach the next level. Ron is a perfect fit for our advisory board as we enter the next milestone of launching our product and growing.
Juan Imaz, Founder and CEO of Profede
Ron is also KDD Cup Co-chair at SIGKDD 2018 which is a premier interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data. He also served on the organizing committees of various previous years. Ron also serves and has served on senior program committees at the International Conference of Web Search and Data Mining. He also served on program committees at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, International Conference on Data Mining, International Conference on Machine Learning, Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Conference on Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, among many others.
Ron was editor of the book Scaling up Machine Learning: Parallel and Distributed Approaches published by the Cambridge University Press in 2012. He has mentored countless interns and junior researchers and published dozens of papers that have been mostly in top-tier venues such as JMLR, KDD, WWW, ICML, ECML, SIGIR, CVPR, IJCAI, CIKM, and EMNLP. Those papers have since then been cited 2000 times in scientific literature. He has reviewed hundreds of data mining and machine learning papers and has a strong sense of high-quality data mining technology.
Ron is a true leader in the field of data science and e-business, has hard-core big data expertise and a clear business vision for the future of how technology can advance through the use of blockchain to create solutions for society. Ron has expertise in machine learning and extensive experience in commercial software engineering.
About Profede
Profede is a professional decentralized protocol that gives the power back to the professional user with blockchain. Profede brings more control over user data and personal information for professionals. Profede’s protocol also gives businesses the possibility to control contacting professional profiles that they are in search of without needing to pay intermediaries large amounts of money. The exchange of data should be fair and transparent and professionals should be in the profit equation, which is why at Profede they will earn tokens for each time they exchange their personal data.As Profede is a protocol, it can be used by thousands of apps that will have many benefits from using Profede’s protocol not only for the app itself but for the apps users.
Profede will start their public crowdsale on June the 01st 2018 with a set hard-cap at $20M. Profede has already surpassed it’s softcap of $1.5M before it started it’s current public presale.
Profede is one ICO that is here to disrupt the professional industry that is worth over $1000bn. Profede uses blockchain to bypass intermediaries in the professional industry and create a direct connection between professionals and businesses. Through this protocol professionals are able to control their personal data and get paid for each exchange of data with businesses or other professionals who contact them. Each time a business wants to access a professionals data be it for a uniquely targeted job offer, a commercial offer or a specific business proposal tokens are paid. By making data valuable and eliminating intermediaries Profede is able to achieve bringing essential value to professionals and businesses.
