Yonatan holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from
Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His Master's thesis focused on DSP and psychoacoustics, researching loudness estimation. Before that, Yonatan worked in chip design for 3 years in Israel.

Alongside the practice of engineering, he is a classical musician, playing clarinet in symphony orchestras, including several solo performances.

Yonatan is a part of the Robotic Musicianship Group, with research interests on the junction between music technology and traditional classical music practices. Current interests include enhancement of music education through technology, especially machine learning, computer vision and DSP.