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Amit Nahum

Computer Science Student
Rishon Lezion

Summary

Final-year Data Science student with hands-on experience gained exclusively through Kaggle competitions. Built end-to-end machine learning pipelines for tasks such as image classification, tabular prediction, and time series analysis. Skilled in Python, EDA, model selection, and performance tuning. Passionate about applying data science techniques to real-world challenges and constantly improving through practice.

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Work History

UFC Result Prediction Model

  • Achieved a top-10 placement in a UFC fight prediction challenge, according to publicly available results
  • Built a structured machine learning pipeline to predict UFC fight outcomes using historical fighter statistics, event data, and engineered features (e.g., win streaks, age/height differences).
  • Integrated data preprocessing, feature engineering, model evaluation, and hyperparameter tuning.
  • Applied advanced models such as XGBoost and ensemble methods to achieve strong performance.
  • Ranked in the top 10 based on publicly available leaderboard results.

License Plate Price Project Competition

Kaggle
  • Won 2nd place in a Kaggle competition
  • Led a data analysis project involving external feature extraction, thorough data cleaning, and preprocessing.
  • Applied feature selection techniques to identify the most impactful variables.
  • Used clustering algorithms to detect patterns and segment data effectively.
  • Developed insights to improve decision-making and enhance investigation accuracy.


Education

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering - Data Science Specialization

Holon Institute of Technology (HIT)
Holon
04.2001 -

Skills

    Teamwork and collaboration

    Machine learning

    Python programming

    Statistical analysis

    Anomaly detection

    Feature engineering

    Statistical modeling

    Time series analysis

    Preprocessing pipelines

    Deep Learning

    Natural language processing

Interests

Investigated aviation accidents using data collection and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Collaborated with teams to improve safety protocols Developed strong analytical and data interpretation skills

Affiliations

  • Languages: Python, SQL, C, C++
  • Data Processing: Pandas, NumPy
  • Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly
  • Classical ML: Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost
  • Feature Selection & Optimization: SHAP, GridSearchCV
  • Pipelines & Experiment Tracking: MLflow
  • NLP: NLTK, SpaCy
  • Computer Vision: OpenCV, YOLO
  • Web Scraping & APIs: BeautifulSoup, Selenium, REST APIs
  • Model Deployment: Flask, Docker


Timeline

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering - Data Science Specialization

Holon Institute of Technology (HIT)
04.2001 -

UFC Result Prediction Model

License Plate Price Project Competition

Kaggle
Amit NahumComputer Science Student