AUTHOR
Simon Mendelsohn
CTO & Co-Founder, Apers
Simon Mendelsohn is CTO and Co-Founder of Apers. He architected and built the Apers platform, including the pipeline that extracts data from deal documents, XL-2 (the engine that builds and populates institutional Excel models), and the AI workflows behind deal analysis.
Before Apers, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Watershed Bio, working on its cloud platform for biological data analysis. Earlier, at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, he created sfkit, an open-source platform that lets research groups jointly analyze genomic data without sharing it. He began his career at Amazon, building machine learning infrastructure and tools for third-party sellers.
Simon holds a B.S. in Statistics & Data Science and Computer Science, with distinction, from Yale University, and did research in computational linguistics at Yale and in robotics at Carnegie Mellon.
Publications
- sfkit: a web-based toolkit for secure and federated genomic analysis. Nucleic Acids Research, 2023.
- Probabilistic Predictions of People Perusing: Evaluating Metrics of Language Model Performance for Psycholinguistic Modeling. CMCL, 2020.
- Finding Syntactic Representations in Neural Stacks. BlackboxNLP, 2019.
- Context-Free Transductions with Neural Stacks. BlackboxNLP, 2018.