Tzvi Aviv

Toronto, ON

AI product and delivery leader with 15+ years taking AI-enabled products from concept to production in regulated healthcare and life sciences environments. At Loblaw Companies, I led product strategy and delivery for an AI/ML platform serving Canada’s largest pharmacy network — 1,300+ stores and 10M+ patients — spanning NLP, machine learning, and predictive analytics embedded safely under PIPEDA and enterprise data governance. Before that, as founder and CEO of Dagantech, I built a cloud-native AI company end-to-end: validating the opportunity with customers, shipping a production ML platform, and earning international recognition including first place in the Syngenta AI Challenge.

I hold an MBA in Innovation & Technology Management from Toronto Metropolitan University and a PhD in Medical Genetics from the University of Toronto. My research background — including work at SickKids and publications in Nature and peer-reviewed journals — grounds my judgment on where AI genuinely moves the needle in clinical and regulated settings.

Currently advising health and life sciences clients on AI product strategy, evaluation design, and responsible AI governance.

selected publications

Why Celebrate the Torah at The Wheat Harvest?

Tzvika Aviv

The Lehrhaus, May 2026

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Bridges the mystical insights of the Zohar with current scientific knowledge regarding wheat genetics to argue that the timing of Matan Torah during the wheat harvest functions as an ancient bioethical reminder — a moral response to the ’sin of wheat’ that still resonates in our age of global supply chains, genetic engineering, and climate change.
@article{aviv2026wheat, title = {Why Celebrate the Torah at The Wheat Harvest?}, author = {Aviv, Tzvika}, journal = {The Lehrhaus}, year = {2026}, month = may, url = {https://thelehrhaus.com/holidays/why-celebrate-the-torah-at-the-wheat-harvest/}, }

Cardiometabolic Treatment Trends in Pharmacy Records and Digital Surveys

Tzvi Aviv, and John Chau

Canadian Journal of Diabetes, May 2022

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@article{aviv2022cardiometabolic,
  title = {Cardiometabolic Treatment Trends in Pharmacy Records and Digital Surveys},
  author = {Aviv, Tzvi and Chau, John},
  journal = {Canadian Journal of Diabetes},
  volume = {46},
  number = {7},
  pages = {S22},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

Ensemble of cubist models for soy yield prediction using soil features and remote sensing variables

Tzvi Aviv, and V Lundsgaard-Nielsen

In 23rd Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 2017

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@inproceedings{aviv2017ensemble,
  title = {Ensemble of cubist models for soy yield prediction using soil features and remote sensing variables},
  author = {Aviv, Tzvi and Lundsgaard-Nielsen, V},
  booktitle = {23rd Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada},
  year = {2017},
}

Remembering a pioneer in biotechnology.

Tzvi Aviv, Frank Sicheri, Alan Bernstein, and 1 more author

Nature, May 2021

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@article{aviv2021remembering,
  title = {Remembering a pioneer in biotechnology.},
  author = {Aviv, Tzvi and Sicheri, Frank and Bernstein, Alan and Weinberg, Robert A},
  journal = {Nature},
  volume = {600},
  number = {7889},
  pages = {386--386},
  year = {2021},
}