Tal Feldman

About Tal Feldman

Tal plans to work in the United States government, focusing on national security and innovation policy. He is currently a JD candidate at Yale Law School.

Before law school, Tal served as an artificial intelligence (AI) engineer across multiple federal agencies. Leveraging his computer science skills, Tal led a team in building AI tools for bureaucratic processes at the State Department. He later built AI models for the Federal Reserve, served as an AI advisor to the US Embassy in London, and helped develop quantitative tools at the Department of Defense. Bringing both computational and regional expertise to his work in government, Tal speaks four languages fluently—English, Russian, Hebrew, and Spanish—and codes in many more.

After graduating from high school at 16, Tal attended Wake Forest University as a Stamps Scholar, a full-ride merit scholarship. He was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar for his public service work and spent his junior year at the London School of Economics, as well as a semester in Santiago, Chile. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with majors in mathematics and economics. He also earned a master’s in global affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar, where he researched Chinese industrial and innovation policies.

Tal’s commitment to government service is rooted in his family’s history. For generations, his family secretly listened to Voice of America behind the Iron Curtain, dreaming of freedom in the United States. After local communist officials seized their home, Tal’s maternal grandfather sued the Soviet government all the way to the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union. He lost, and the whole family faced retaliation. Tal’s paternal grandfather was raised in Kazakhstan, where his family was exiled by Stalin’s regime. He later distributed anti-Soviet books, evading the police. As a teenager, Tal’s mother delivered a speech before the city council denouncing government injustice and sent a protest letter to the leader of the Soviet Union, risking her academic future. In 1990, Tal’s family escaped communist rule and moved to Israel, where Tal was born. They later moved to the United Kingdom and then to Fort Worth, Texas, where Tal grew up and calls home.