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From AgileDays to AI in Education
More than a decade of public talks, technical webinars, academic seminars and intensive courses. Data Science, algorithms, probability, critical thinking and AI — in English, Hebrew and Russian.
Since 2013Public speaking
RU · HE · ENThree languages
Conferences · universitiesWebinars · intensives
Data Science · probabilityAlgorithms · AI
Topics
Talks available now
Each talk can be adapted for a conference, university, company, podcast or general audience.
How Data Lies with Confidence
Charts, averages, models and cognitive traps that produce persuasive but incorrect conclusions.
Data Science Without Magic
What data scientists actually do, from problem definition to model validation.
Critical Thinking After ChatGPT
Why access to a smart answer does not automatically make us smarter.
Should We Still Learn Python?
What is worth learning when AI can already generate code.
Probability Through Stories
Real cases and paradoxes that reshape our intuition about risk and evidence.
Turning One Lecture into an AI Course
From a lecture to an ecosystem of video, notes, games, assignments and feedback.
Selected history
Conference & academic talks
Not a full CV, but a verifiable public and academic speaking trail — from software engineering to research and AI in education.
12 July 2026 · Technion
IICDHSS 2026
AI-Assisted Teaching of Data Analysis for Humanities Students: From Lectures to Interactive Practice.
18 August 2026 · 19:25–19:40 IDT · University of Haifa · online
ICECA 2026
Two-colors lattice paths with catastrophes and applications to vacation queues.
2024 · Braude Academic College
Research seminar
Setting priorities for biodiversity research in natural history collections — machine learning and statistics for research prioritization.
2022 · SICSS-Haifa
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
Two-week summer institute at the University of Haifa: 6 teaching sessions, 13 hours in total, covering computational social science, time series, automated text analysis and images as data.
2021/2022 · University of Haifa
IDIT Program
Introduction to Data Mining for the Social Sciences — a two-credit interdisciplinary course.
YEQT XII · University of Haifa
Young European Queueing Theory
Generalizations of decomposition property for M^X/G/1 queues with vacations.
2014 · CEE-SECR
Sublinear Algorithms for Big Data
A talk on sublinear algorithms for large-scale data.
2014 · AgileDays · Moscow
Positive Psychology + Agile Development
A public talk connecting positive psychology and agile software development.
2013 · SECR
Technology of Positive Change
The transtheoretical model applied to software development and organizational change.
An independent SECR review listed this talk among the “especially liked” talks and specifically noted its scientific approach to change.
2013 · AgileDays · Moscow
Agile Development — Psychology and Pseudopsychology?
A talk on scientific and pseudoscientific ideas around software teams.
Public education
Webinars, intensives & community teaching
Open education was part of the work long before the current YouTube and AI projects.
Free webinar series
Big Data: misconceptions and pitfalls; Programmer Interview Exposed; Correlation for Everyone; Linear Regression as Simple as Possible.
LinkedIn archiveA Journey into Dynamic Programming
From Microsoft and Intel to selection and optimization problems — a free technical webinar for programmers and analysts.
ITVDN archiveData Science for researchers and PhD students
Three-day intensive: Orange, CRISP-DM, regression, classification, clustering and model evaluation.
2020 programIntroduction to Data Science
Four-day intensive for researchers and doctoral students: data, models, text and images.
2021 programGuest educational appearance
A guest educational appearance on Stepik as part of a long-running open online education track.
StepikDigital footprint
Independent archives still exist
Many older talks remain discoverable independently of this site — in conference archives, education platforms and video repositories.
0x1.tv
Three separate Igor Kleiner talks: AgileDays 2013, AgileDays 2014 and SECR 2013.
Open archiveAgileDays
Official conference programs confirm appearances in both 2013 and 2014.
AgileDays 2013University of Haifa
Official archives preserve Data Science intensives and interdisciplinary teaching.
Open programResearch talks · 2014
A University of Haifa archive preserves two additional early research talks: REDS-2014 on property testing for images and the 16th International Conference “Digital Signal Processing and its Applications” (2014).
Open the university archive →Student feedback
What students say
Two genuine student notes, presented without marketing polish.
“Thank you for your dedication, the exercises and the wonderful explanations. The quiz panel and engaging YouTube videos made the material clearer and more enjoyable.”Students of the Probability Course, 2025–2026
“Thank you for the semester, your patience, warmth and genuine desire to teach us and expand our knowledge. We greatly enjoyed learning with you.”Students, July 14, 2025 · translated from Hebrew