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Avi Balsam

forward deployed engineer — palantir, nyc

Building agentic AI systems for hospital operations.

MIT '25 · computer science & mathematics

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Palantir Technologies forward deployed engineer · new york

Agentic systems for hospital revenue operations: a human-in-the-loop system that made clinical appeal writing 200% more efficient, and an agentic calling system that raised cases covered on physician peer-to-peer calls with payers by 150%. Also helped build a documentation retrieval agent now used across Palantir.

Lazard Asset Management quantitative global intern · boston

Rebuilt the backtesting tool researchers use to evaluate investment strategies, making it over 60× faster; presented the result to a team-wide meeting including multiple managing directors.

MIT teaching assistant · 6.006 introduction to algorithms

Taught in a course taken by 60% of MIT undergraduates: twice-weekly office hours with ~50 students each, rubric design, and 400+ exams graded.

Forkosh Lab, Hebrew University computational neuroscience researcher

Gathered computational and neural evidence that backpropagation is a plausible cognitive learning rule, building an ANN from scratch on a biologically plausible variant. Paper submitted to Neural Computation.

MIT b.s. computer science & mathematics

GPA 5.0/5.0. Coursework in algorithms, theory of computation, advanced complexity theory, and computer vision.

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  • Session Scribe

    An AI notetaker for therapists — sessions become structured notes, so clinicians can keep their attention on the client.

  • Project Chazon

    Cofounded a nonprofit that uses retrieval-augmented generation to detect antisemitic misinformation and generate context-based responses.

  • Haskeil

    A novel algorithm for establishing numerical connections between Hebrew words.

  • btc-trader

    Cross-exchange cryptocurrency arbitrage in Python, using threading and asynchronous computation to cut latency.

  • iQuHACK — 3rd place

    Designed a quantum gate to break into a virtual "quantum safe," run on IonQ hardware, at MIT's 1,250-person quantum hackathon.

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