Yael Netzer is the lead scientist of the DH@Huji lab. She has a PhD in Computer Science and MA studies in Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University.  Her dissertation combined computational linguistics, natural language generation and augmentative and alternative communication.

In recent years she teaches  Digital Humanities in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Universities and in Digital Humanities related institutions such as the European Summer University of Leipzig, and the winter school in HUJI, for students and scholars from the Humanities, Computer Science, and Archiving studies.

She works at Dicta, the Israeli Center for Text Analysis and is also a partner in the Digital Humanities lab in Haifa University. In recent years, Netzer develops and implements methods for digital personal archives, and is most interested in knowledge representation for archives, libraries and for the humanities.