About me

I research and build AI for cybersecurity. My work connects machine learning, language models, and security operations, with an emphasis on systems that can be evaluated and trusted in practice.

At Wiz (Google), I work on autonomous threat investigation, security assistants, and automated remediation. Earlier, at Cybereason, I developed machine learning for malware detection and static analysis, alongside LLM applications for security teams.

A recurring question in my work is simple: did we improve the system, or just move the metric? I’m interested in agent evaluation, reproducible investigations, and smaller models trained for specific security decisions.

Tal Waitzenberg

Experience

Wiz (Google)

2024–present · AI for cloud security
Current role: Staff Research Scientist

  • Security agents: autonomous threat investigation, evidence gathering, and security reasoning.
  • Evaluation: benchmarks, A/A testing, and shadow testing to separate model improvements from normal variation.
  • Applied AI: natural-language access to security data and agent workflows for automated remediation.

Cybereason

2021–2024 · Data science & GenAI
Data Science & GenAI Team Lead; previously Senior Data Scientist

  • Threat detection: machine learning models for malware classification, threat intelligence, and static analysis across executables, scripts, and documents.
  • Security copilots: LLM and retrieval systems for security and support workflows.
  • Production ML: model deployment, inference performance, and collaboration with security researchers and engineering teams.

IBM

2017–2021 · Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist

  • NLP, named entity recognition, and entity linking.
  • End-to-end machine learning systems, from modeling and experimentation to cloud deployment.
  • Applied research in forecasting, clustering, and business analytics.

Inigo

Earlier experience · Software Engineer

Web applications and dashboards with JavaScript and AngularJS; server-side development with MVC5 and SQL Server.

Education

M.Sc. in Mathematics
Specialization in Data Science

Bar-Ilan University

B.Sc. in Software Engineering
Ben-Gurion University