Noa Weiss
AI/ML researcher, fifteen years in AI, machine learning and data science across industry and academia. My work spans cybersecurity and fraud prevention at PayPal and Armis, vulnerability detection in compiled code, and five years of independent ML consulting. Alongside that, I've built deep-learning models for whale conservation with the Deep Voice Foundation and founded a non-profit applying ML to alternative proteins. Academic background in cognitive science and psychology.
AI/ML Researcher · AI Safety · Alternative Proteins · Berkeley, CA
About
I came to machine learning through cognitive science, and have spent the years since building ML systems across industry and research. Most recently I led AI research at Delphos Labs, building a first-of-its-kind system for finding vulnerabilities in compiled code. Earlier I built fraud and risk models at PayPal, and anomaly-detection systems at Armis. For five years I also worked as an independent AI/ML consultant, helping startups and established companies design and ship machine learning systems, from risk and anomaly detection to NLP, and advising technical leaders as they built and scaled their ML teams.
I founded GreenProtein AI, a non-profit applying machine learning to alternative proteins (now concluded), and built deep-learning models for whale conservation with the Deep Voice Foundation. I also founded the Israeli Women in Data Science & Machine Learning community. These days I mentor alternative-protein startups through the Good Food Institute, sit on the AI/ML advisory committee of Food System Innovations, and write on AI and its risks for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record.
Lately I've been drawn to one of the hardest questions in AI: whether AI systems could be conscious, and how we could ever know.
Research & Writing
Papers
- Maintaining Relevance in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Novel Approach to Discerning Between Effective vs. Ineffective Discourse
- Soundbay: Deep Learning Framework for Marine Mammals and Bioacoustic Research
In print
Essays for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record.
- The Pope Warns of AI While Ignoring the Science, the Experts, and the Facts
- An AI Model Outsmarted Its Creators and Escaped the Lab. Who Will Stop It?
- Meat-Eaters Still Distrust Alternative Protein. New Technology Is Changing That
Technical writing
Talks
Podcasts
In the News
Advising & Community
I advise mission-driven teams on AI and data strategy, mainly in alternative protein and animal welfare.
- Good Food Institute
- Food System Innovations
- Deep Voice Foundation
- Women in Data Science & Machine Learning Israel
- GreenProtein AI