Maor Assayag

To me, Fourier transform is the most elegant description of nature’s song.

I've dreamt about this song many, many times.

R&D Team Lead @ Applied Materials

Experience

Applied Materials

June 2026 – Present

Next-generation multi-beam electron inspection system

Israeli Navy R&D Center

May 2020 – June 2025

Led an award-winning cross-functional team of 20+ engineers across full-stack, algorithms, and QA
Mentoring Team Leads and managing multiple Agile R&D squads
Architected and scaled national communication systems from single-ship deployments to fleet-wide operations, doubling team size and tripling project scope while earning multiple excellence awards
Designed and delivered 40+ scalable microservices and real-time distributed systems
Engineered high-performance communication protocols, including compression, encoding, and encryption mechanisms
Developed advanced DSP algorithms and ML models for real-time audio decoding in low-SNR, non-stationary environments
Led UI/UX standardization initiatives, creating reusable component frameworks
Engineered robust orchestration solutions for real-time combat environments and owned CI/CD pipelines
Recruited and evaluated 300+ engineering, data science, and QA roles

Israeli Navy R&D Center

Oct 2019 – May 2020

Engineered a new digital encryption full-stack system for fleet-wide deployment
Reverse-engineered legacy compression, enabling backward compatibility for payload fragmentation protocol
Architected monitoring solution for 15+ microservices, tracking metrics across mediums

University of Haifa

2023-2025

Subjects in the field of DSP and ML/DL
Research on predictive models uncovering temporal dependencies in sperm whale communication
Supervised by Prof. Roee Diamant at The Underwater Acoustic & Navigation Lab
Exploring Statistical Relations Between Coda Sequences of Dominica Sperm Whale Pairs. Bioacoustics, 2026.