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Shiri Simon Segal

Senior Data Scientist

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About Me

Shiri Simon Segal, PhD, is a Senior Data Scientist specializing in NLP and Large Language Models (LLMs). At ActiveFence, she leads GenAI Safety and Security innovation, developing solutions for AI guardrails like semantic search, LLM distillation, and prompt optimization for automated data workflows. She previously led NLP efforts in research and industry, and holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Tel Aviv University.

Shiri's Articles

Guardrails and Observability, Technical Blog

How Knowledge Distillation Turns LLMs into Smarter Transformers

Read how our AI engineering team transferred world knowledge from a large-scale LLM to a smaller transformer; reducing costs while boosting performance…
September 24, 2025 Reading time 22 min read

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