Anna Becker

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Anna Becker
Born21 April 1973
Russia
NationalityIsraeli
EducationPhD in AI and CS (Technion)
Occupation(s)Researcher, entrepreneur

Anna Becker is an Israeli researcher known in the field of artificial intelligence and computer science within the financial field. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Becker was born in Russia and immigrated to Israel at 16 after graduating from a school in Moscow. At 17, she began her studies at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. During her master's degree in computer science, she taught first-year students of the same course, and at 27, Becker completed her PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. [3] [4]

Career

While pursuing her PhD, Becker resolved an NP-complete approximation algorithm that had been unresolved for over twenty years. This made her a recognized scholar in the field. After completing her PhD, she developed an approximation technique by a factor of two. This technique is widely used today in operating systems, database systems, and VLSI chip designs. [5] [6]

She then founded and sold Strategy Runner, a fintech software. [7] After this, she founded EndoTech, an algorithmic trading platform based on artificial intelligence and machine learning. [8] [9] As of 2023, Becker is working on Fianchetto Fund, an AI-based investing analysis platform. [10]

Becker has also co-authored a book on Bayesian networks, which has been published widely in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. [11]

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