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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
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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.

Official program

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.

Official program

2024 · Braude Academic College

Research seminar

Setting priorities for biodiversity research in natural history collections — machine learning and statistics for research prioritization.

Seminar page

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.

SICSS schedule

2021/2022 · University of Haifa

IDIT Program

Introduction to Data Mining for the Social Sciences — a two-credit interdisciplinary course.

University of Haifa program

YEQT XII · University of Haifa

Young European Queueing Theory

Generalizations of decomposition property for M^X/G/1 queues with vacations.

YEQT program

2014 · CEE-SECR

Sublinear Algorithms for Big Data

A talk on sublinear algorithms for large-scale data.

CEE-SECR archive

2014 · AgileDays · Moscow

Positive Psychology + Agile Development

A public talk connecting positive psychology and agile software development.

AgileDays program

2013 · SECR

Technology of Positive Change

The transtheoretical model applied to software development and organizational change.

0x1.tv video archive

An independent SECR review listed this talk among the “especially liked” talks and specifically noted its scientific approach to change.

Independent review →

2013 · AgileDays · Moscow

Agile Development — Psychology and Pseudopsychology?

A talk on scientific and pseudoscientific ideas around software teams.

AgileDays program

Public education

Webinars, intensives & community teaching

Open education was part of the work long before the current YouTube and AI projects.

2015 · Summer community program

High-Tech Interview Preparation for New Immigrants

A practical course on technical interviews and entering high-tech: problem solving, algorithmic thinking and real interview traps.

Community education
2015 · GeekBrains

Free webinar series

Big Data: misconceptions and pitfalls; Programmer Interview Exposed; Correlation for Everyone; Linear Regression as Simple as Possible.

LinkedIn archive
15 July 2015 · ITVDN

A Journey into Dynamic Programming

From Microsoft and Intel to selection and optimization problems — a free technical webinar for programmers and analysts.

ITVDN archive
2020 · Beit HaShita · University of Haifa

Data Science for researchers and PhD students

Three-day intensive: Orange, CRISP-DM, regression, classification, clustering and model evaluation.

2020 program
2021 · Beit HaShita · University of Haifa

Introduction to Data Science

Four-day intensive for researchers and doctoral students: data, models, text and images.

2021 program
Stepik

Guest educational appearance

A guest educational appearance on Stepik as part of a long-running open online education track.

Stepik
Digital 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 archive

AgileDays

Official conference programs confirm appearances in both 2013 and 2014.

AgileDays 2013

University of Haifa

Official archives preserve Data Science intensives and interdisciplinary teaching.

Open program

Research 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 letter from students of the Probability Course, 2025–2026
“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
Handwritten thank-you note from students in Hebrew, July 14, 2025
“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