AI & Software Development Team
The company’s outsourced development team is composed of 8 professionals with years of experience in AI development, data science, application and software engineering. The team comes from the most elite intelligence units in the Israeli Defense Force and have worked on advanced projects ranging from computer vision, imaging, and targeting systems development.
Yossi Avni
Head of Software Platform Development
After completing his service in an elite military unit of the IDF, Yossi received a BSc in applied mathematics from the Israeli Technion in Haifa. Yossi has 25 years of experience in developing advanced artificial Intelligence applications, behavioral biometrics, behavioral profiling, and advanced security systems. Mr. Avni holds over 100 patents in these areas and has expertise in next-generation machine learning, neural networks, intelligent machine-human collaboration, and computational studies of the brain – with application to AI, data science, and high-tech industry. Yossi’s mentor who he has also consulted with the development of the Zsmile platform is Prof. Hava Siegelmann who is internationally known University of Massachusetts Provost Professor in Computer Science and a recognized expert in neural networks. She lectures to advanced graduate students at Harvard University and MIT. Yossi has been involved with work in computation beyond the Turing limit, and for achieving advanced learning capabilities through a new type of AI. Prof. Siegelmann is the co-inventor of the Support Vector Clustering (SVC) algorithm, which is widely used across industry and government. Mr. Avni is the CTO of Soda Ltd. Software Outsourcing Development & Architecture, managing a team of 11 core employees with an additional 40 freelancers, focused on providing development services to Zsmile.
Hardware Development Team
The company’s hardware development team is composed of 6 professionals with years of experience in FDA – compliant medical device development. They are part of Aran Research Development & Prototypes Ltd. Founded in 1982. Aran is a leading Israeli product design and development firm and an exclusive agent of global equipment manufacturers for the plastics industry. Aran is publicly traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Aran provides comprehensive medical device development and production services, all the way from conceptual inception to market-ready product – including specification, risk management, system engineering, development, V&V, serial production and supply (FDA registered). Their creative teams of experts – designers, mechanical, software and electrical engineers – successfully developed a wide range of medical devices, communications and monitoring, as well as military devices. Aran is ISO 13485 certified and maintains a class 7 cleanroom for testing and assembly. As our hardware development partner, Aran also has manufacturing facilities and a full suite of 3D printing capabilities, which are all under FDA guidelines.
Avi Kayton
Head of Hardware & Systems Development
Avi is a skilled development manager and systems engineer with 16 years of experience, with extensive experience in medical device companies. Experienced in managing medical projects throughout their entire life cycle, including managing multidisciplinary teams and subcontractors. After completing his military service in the IDF as a practical engineer dealing with computerized monitoring and control systems, Mr. Kayton received his B.Sc. In Electrical Engineering from the Holon Institute of Technology. Avi currently is Head of medical projects department of Aran and is in charge of all medical device development, design, and manufacturing. Avi brings together all of the teams of experts from within Aran to service the Company’s development needs – teams from materials experts, industrial design, 3D printing, mechanical and electrical engineering, etc.
