# Michael Shalyt

> Michael Shalyt is a Haifa-based researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded APERIO Systems and Evo.Do. Since 2023 he has led the Ramanujan Machine group at the Technion under Professor Ido Kaminer, working on computational mathematical discovery. His career also includes malware research at Check Point, algorithms leadership at CyCognito and game systems design at Redemption Games.

- **Role:** Associate Researcher and PhD student; Head of the Ramanujan Machine Group at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- **Organizations:** Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ramanujan Machine, APERIO Systems, Evo.Do, Check Point Software Technologies, CyCognito, Redemption Games, Y Combinator
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, MSc in Quantum Computing (Physics), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Y Combinator, PhD studies, ongoing, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** 2005 International Physics Olympiad bronze medal., Four Technion Presidential Excellence Awards during 2005-2009, according to his CV., Co-led APERIO from an idea to deployed software and early customers; the company announced $4.5 million in seed funding in February 2018.

## Career timeline

- **2005** — Won a bronze medal representing Israel at the 36th International Physics Olympiad in Salamanca, Spain.
- **2010-2014** — Researcher and then research team leader in the IDF.
- **2014-2015** — Led a malware research team at Check Point.
- **2016-2018** — Co-founder, VP Product and CEO at APERIO Systems.
- **2018-2019** — Co-founded and led Evo.Do, developing reinforcement-learning bots for software testing.
- **2019** — Participated in Y Combinator Winter 2019; published Evo.Do shutdown account in September.
- **2020-2023** — Head of Program and Algorithms Team Leader at CyCognito.
- **2021-2024** — Game Systems Designer at Redemption Games, working on Crushers!.
- **2023-present** — Associate Researcher and PhD student at the Technion; leads the Ramanujan Machine group.
- **2026** — Co-authored ASyMOB in the ICML proceedings.

## Achievements

- 2005 International Physics Olympiad bronze medal.
- Four Technion Presidential Excellence Awards during 2005-2009, according to his CV.
- Co-led APERIO from an idea to deployed software and early customers; the company announced $4.5 million in seed funding in February 2018.
- Evo.Do participated in Y Combinator Winter 2019.
- Co-authored research on automated clustering of 1,768,900 mathematical formulas presented at NeurIPS 2024.
- 2025 Kenneth and Gloria Levy Scholarship for excellence in PhD studies, according to his CV.
- 2026 ICML Gold Reviewer recognition, according to his CV.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — ASyMOB, co-authored with Rotem Elimelech and Ido Kaminer, appeared at ICML 2026; the final proceedings describe 35,368 validated symbolic mathematics problems.

## Links

- Website: https://shalyt.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-shalyt/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MShalyt
- GitHub: https://github.com/MichaelShalyt
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/michaelshalyt

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Last updated: 2026-10-24