He received his B.Sc. in Math, Physics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in NY. He was an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern Business School. He is the founder of ClearForest Corporation that was acquired by Reuters in 2007. He has given more than 30 tutorials on text mining and information extraction and authored numerous papers on these topics. He is the author of the book "The Text Mining Handbook" published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.