Tomer Zipori’s resume

Author

Tomer Zipori

Published

February 14, 2025

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Tomer Zipori

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Skills

  • Experience in Frequentist and Bayesian statistical analysis, statistical learning models, and data visualization methods.

  • Experience and knowledge in many Machine Learning methods: Classification, Regression and Natural Language Processing.

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Tomer Zipori

General Information

MA in Cognitive Psychology and Data-science. I have expertise and enthusiasm in everything Social science and data science. As a quick and independent learner, I have acquired many data science skills during my time in academia such as: Data visualization, Machine learning, data communication and more.

Education

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

M.A. in Cognitive Psychology and Data Science

Be’er Sheva, Israel

2022 - Now

Thesis: Effects of Social-Status and Ethnicity on face individuation.
Supervisor: Dr. Niv Reggev

Hebrew University in Jerusalem

B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy

Jerusalem, Israel

2018 - 2021

Thesis: Inter-personal differences in the effect of parental modeling on sharing behavior during middle childhood.
Supervisor: Prof. Ariel Knafo-Noam

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Research Experience

Computational Social Psychology (SCP)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Be’er Sheva, Israel

2024 - Now

  • Investigated how different psychological interventions improved the ability of participants at detecting fake-news.
  • Performed statistical analysis, visualizations and inferences for a meta-analysis.
  • Self-learning various statistical methods including Ordinal Regression, Frequentist and Bayesian machine learning and meta-analyses of effect sizes.

Social, Cognition, Motivation and Brain Lab (SCMB)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Be’er Sheva, Israel

2022 - 2024

  • Investigated how social-status of faces affects their identification by others.
  • Created and implemented protocols for data organization and data sharing via documentation and the use of Github.
  • Managing a team of research assistants.
  • Guiding students in their research projects in the lab.

Graduate Research Assistant

The Social Development Lab, Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Israel

2019 - 2020

  • Participation in the “Young Researchers” and writing an extended seminar term paper.

Professional Experience

Data Quality Specialist

Planck

Israel

2024 - Now

  • Was part of the data tagging and validation

Content Writer

Classit

Israel

2021 - 2023

  • Wrote high-school level math questions and teaching units.

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Statistics

Teaching Assistant in the Intro to statistics course for BA students.

Be’er Sheva, Israel

2022 - 2024

Methodology in experimental Psychology

Teaching Assistant in the Methodology in experimental Psychology. course for BA students. As part of the course I have guided groups of students in forming research questions, planning and conducting experiments, statistically analyzing results, and forming conclusions.

Be’er Sheva, Israel

2022 - 2023

MITAM Instructor

Ofek MITAM

Israel

2023 - Now

Teaching a class of the Ofek MITAM course. The MITAM is the entrance test for advanced degrees in psychology - equivalent to the GRE.