Yahoo! Research

Description

Yahoo! Research is a research organization established on January 2004 within Yahoo!. It is headed by Ron Brachman. Topics within Yahoo! Research include: Internet search, machine learning, microeconomics, media experience, and community systems. Locations include: Barcelona, Spain Bangalore, India Yahoo! Key person: Ronald J. Brachman (Head & Chief Scientist of Yahoo!) Type of business: Contract research organization Founded: January 19, 2004 Location: United States, Spain, India, Israel, Chile

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Yahoo! Research Employees

Employee
Years
Job
Industry
Naushad UzZaman Naushad UzZaman Greater New York City Area Details
Naushad UzZaman's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2011 - August 2011
Job CTO/CoFounder of SocialTrendly and Sr. Research Scientist at Nuance
Industry Research
Experience
SocialTrendly   February 2014 - Present
Nuance Communications  July 2012 - Present
University of Rochester  September 2007 - July 2012
University of Rochester  September 2007 - July 2012
Yahoo! Research   May 2011 - August 2011
Microsoft Medical Media Lab (M3L)   June 2009 - August 2009
Robert Bosch Corporation, Research and Technology Center   May 2008 - August 2008
Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing, BRAC University   June 2005 - June 2007
CSE Department, BRAC University   January 2007 - May 2007
Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing, BRAC University   January 2005 - May 2007

Skills
Natural Language..., Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Big Data, Computational..., Research, Information Extraction, Text Mining, Natural Language..., Pattern Recognition, Human Computer..., Information Retrieval, Programming, Python, Sentiment Analysis, Language Technology, Algorithm Design, Photography, Text Processing

Education
University of Rochester   2007 — 2012
PhD, Computer Science

University of Rochester   2007 — 2008
MS, Computer Science

BRAC University   2001 — 2005
BSc, Computer Science

Faujdarhat Cadet College   1995 — 2001
High School, Science

Amr Ahmed Amr Ahmed San Francisco Bay Area Details
Amr Ahmed's Yahoo! Research Experience 2011 - October 2012
Job Senior Research Scientist at Google
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Google  August 2012 - Present
Yahoo! Research   2011 - October 2012
Carnegie Mellon University  2005 - December 2010
Yahoo! Research   June 2010 - September 2010
NEC Laboratories America, Inc.   June 2007 - September 2007

Skills
Machine Learning, Scalable Inference, Statistical Modeling, Data Mining, Content Analysis, User Modeling, Personalization, Computational..., Social Media, Scalable Non-Parametric..., C++, Hadoop, MapReduce, Recommender Systems, Non-parametric Bayesian..., Algorithms, Latent Variable Models, Non-parametric, Conceptual Modeling, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Online Advertising, Scalability, Information Retrieval, Natural Language..., Text Mining, Text Analytics, Social Network Analysis, Information Extraction, Pattern Recognition

Education
Carnegie Mellon University   2005 — 2011
PhD, Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer Science

Cameron Marlow Cameron Marlow San Francisco Bay Area Details
Cameron Marlow's Yahoo! Research Experience September 2005 - November 2007
Job Researcher at Stanford University
Industry Internet
Experience
Stanford University  March 2014 - Present
Facebook  November 2007 - December 2013
Yahoo! Research   September 2005 - November 2007
MIT Media Laboratory  September 1999 - 2005
Centers for Disease Control, Division of STD Prevention   June 2003 - August 2003
Lafayette Project   June 2002 - August 2002
University of Chicago Computer Science Department   June 1998 - August 1999

Skills
Social Network Analysis, Social Media, Blogging, Information Retrieval, Natural Language..., Social Software, Human Computer..., Computer Science, Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Python, Causal Inference, Engineering Management, Qualitative Research, Text Analytics, Statistical Modeling, Baking, Sourdough, Data Science, Synergies, Awesomeness, MapReduce, User Experience

Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology   1999 — 2005
Ph.D., Media Arts and Sciences

The University of Chicago   1995 — 1999
B.S., Computer Science

Sergiy Matusevych Sergiy Matusevych Redmond, Washington Details
Sergiy Matusevych's Yahoo! Research Experience September 2006 - September 2012
Job Senior Research SDE at Microsoft
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Microsoft Cloud and Information Services Lab   May 2013 - Present
Knobout Inc.   September 2012 - March 2013
Yahoo! Research   September 2006 - September 2012
Telcordia Technologies  October 2000 - September 2006
Unity-BARS   September 1994 - October 2000
National Technical University of Ukraine   September 1994 - January 1996

Skills
Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Hadoop, Python, Java, C++, Scalability, Algorithms, Data Mining, Natural Language..., PostgreSQL, Git, MySQL, SQL, High Performance..., Erlang, Web Services, Unix Shell Scripting, Oracle, R, Haskell, Clojure, C/C++ STL, STL, OOP, Multithreading, Information Retrieval, Redis, Big Data, Apache Spark, Apache Pig, POSIX, Threads, ICE, CORBA, Prolog, NLTK, Sentiment Analysis, Shell Scripting

Education
Stanford University   2007 — 2007
Statistics

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick   2005 — 2006
Mathematics

National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'   1989 — 1995
MS, Computer Science

David Rothschild David Rothschild Greater New York City Area Details
David Rothschild's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2011 - May 2012
Job Economist at Microsoft Research
Industry Research
Experience
Microsoft Research  May 2012 - Present
Columbia University  May 2012 - Present
Yahoo! Research   May 2011 - May 2012
DemStore   January 2003 - June 2006

Education
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School   2006 — 2011
PhD, Applied Economics

Brown University   1998 — 2002
ScB & BA, Civil Engineering and History

Benjamin Sowell Benjamin Sowell Mountain View, California Details
Benjamin Sowell's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2009 - August 2009
Job Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Amazon Web Services  May 2014 - Present
Amiato   June 2012 - May 2014
Hewlett-Packard Labs (Palo Alto, CA)   May 2011 - August 2011
Yahoo! Research   May 2009 - August 2009

Skills
Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Python, Databases, C++, Software Engineering, Computer Science, C, Linux, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, SQL, Unix, MongoDB, Amazon Web Services..., Celery, Programming, Software Development

Education
Cornell University   2007 — 2012
PhD, Computer Science

Carleton College   2003 — 2007
BA, Computer Science

Winter Mason Winter Mason Washington D.C. Metro Area Details
Winter Mason's Yahoo! Research Experience September 2007 - September 2011
Job Computational Social Scientist at Facebook
Industry Research
Experience
Facebook  July 2013 - Present
Stevens Institute of Technology  August 2011 - July 2014
Yahoo! Research   September 2007 - September 2011
Indiana University Bloomington  2002 - 2007
Biostatistics Center, George Washington University   2000 - 2002

Skills
Python, JavaScript, PHP, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology, Social Media, Machine Learning, R, Data Mining, Statistics, Algorithms, Social Sciences, Statistical Modeling, Text Mining, Pattern Recognition, Time Series Analysis

Education
Indiana University Bloomington   2002 — 2007
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Cognitive Science

University of Pittsburgh   1997 — 1999
Bachelor of Science, Psychology; Cognitive Psychology

Carnegie Mellon University   1994 — 1996

Christopher Olston Christopher Olston San Francisco Bay Area Details
Christopher Olston's Yahoo! Research Experience January 2006 - March 2011
Job Staff Research Scientist at Google
Industry Internet
Experience
Google  November 2011 - Present
Yahoo! Research   January 2006 - March 2011
Carnegie Mellon University  August 2003 - December 2005

Skills
Computer Science, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Linux, MapReduce, Data Mining, Research, Optimizations, Hadoop, Data Analysis, Unix, Programming, Big Data, Search, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Information Retrieval, Scalability

Education
Stanford University   1999 — 2003
PhD, Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley   1995 — 1999
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Jure Leskovec Jure Leskovec San Francisco Bay Area Details
Jure Leskovec's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2007 - August 2007
Job Chief Scientist at Pinterest; Assist. Professor at Stanford University
Industry Research
Experience
Pinterest  2015 - Present
Stanford University  September 2009 - Present
Kosei   2014 - 2015
Cornell University  September 2008 - September 2009
Carnegie Mellon University  August 2004 - September 2008
Yahoo Research  May 2007 - August 2007
Microsoft Research  May 2006 - August 2006
Hewlett Packard Laboratories  June 2005 - August 2005
Jozef Stefan Institute   May 1997 - August 2004
Carnegie Mellon Univeristy   June 2003 - August 2003

Skills
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Social Networking, Text Mining, Search, Social Network Analysis, Computer Science, Text Classification, Link Analysis, Natural Language..., Network Science, Algorithms, Information Retrieval

Education
Cornell University   2008 — 2009
Postdoc, Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University   2004 — 2008
Ph.D., Machine Learning

University of Ljubljana   1999 — 2004
Diploma [B.Sc.], Computer Science

Gimnazija Bezigrad

Josh Attenberg Josh Attenberg Brooklyn, New York Details
Josh Attenberg's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2008 - April 2009
Job Data Scientist
Industry Information Services
Experience
NYU Stern School of Business  July 2012 - Present
Etsy  August 2011 - Present
Independent  July 2009 - Present
Tagasauris, Inc   July 2011 - June 2013
AdSafe Media  May 2009 - August 2011
Yahoo! Research   May 2008 - April 2009
New York University  September 2006 - April 2009
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  2002 - 2005

Skills
Information Retrieval, Natural Language..., Data Mining, Data Analysis, Python, Machine Learning, Hadoop, R, Data Science, Analytics, Algorithms, Text Mining, Big Data, MapReduce, Pattern Recognition

Education
New York University   1996 — 2009
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Mathematics

Oren Tsur Oren Tsur Brookline, Massachusetts Details
Oren Tsur's Yahoo! Research Experience 2010 - 2010
Job Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University & Northeastern University
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
Northeastern University  August 2013 - Present
Harvard University  August 2013 - Present
IBM  January 2013 - August 2013
CS dept. the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel   January 2005 - May 2013
Yahoo!  August 2010 - December 2010
the Hebrew University  November 2006 - January 2010
Yahoo! Research   2010 - 2010
Open University  2008 - 2010
NST  January 2006 - May 2006
BIU   2004 - 2005

Skills
Computer Science, Text Mining, Computational..., Publications, Information Retrieval, Natural Language..., Machine Learning, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, NLP, Algorithms, Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence

Education
The Hebrew University   2005 — 2013
PhD, computer science

Universiteit van Amsterdam
MSc

Daniel Reeves Daniel Reeves Portland, Oregon Details
Daniel Reeves's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2006 - September 2010
Job Cofounder at Beeminder.com
Industry Internet
Experience
Beeminder.com   September 2010 - Present
Yahoo Research  May 2006 - September 2010
University of Michigan  September 2005 - December 2005
HP Labs  2001 - 2001

Skills
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, E-commerce, Computer Science, Analytics, Competitive Analysis, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Software Development, Data Mining, Software Engineering, Big Data, Programming, Recommender Systems, Text Mining, Strategy, Customer Service, Natural Language..., Scalability, Information Retrieval, Linux, C, Python

Education
University of Michigan   1998 — 2005
PhD, Computer Science

Kunal Punera Kunal Punera San Francisco Bay Area Details
Kunal Punera's Yahoo! Research Experience August 2007 - January 2011
Job CoFounder/CTO at Bento Labs
Industry Internet
Experience
Bento Labs   May 2014 - Present
A Big Data start-up   September 2013 - Present
RelateIQ  January 2012 - January 2014
Yahoo!  January 2011 - May 2012
Yahoo! Research   August 2007 - January 2011
Yahoo! Inc  August 2007 - January 2011

Skills
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Natural Language..., Recommender Systems, Hadoop, Web Mining, Information Extraction, MapReduce, Text Classification, Text Analytics, Algorithms, Collaborative Filtering, Computational..., Apache Pig, Artificial Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis, Big Data, Search, Scalability, Distributed Systems, Semantic Web, Computer Science, Data Science, Algorithm Design, Pattern Recognition

Education
University of Texas at Austin   2002 — 2007
PhD, Machine learning, web mining

Souvik Ghosh Souvik Ghosh Mountain View, California Details
Souvik Ghosh's Yahoo! Research Experience August 2011 - May 2012
Job Researcher at LinkedIn
Industry Internet
Experience
LinkedIn  May 2012 - Present
Yahoo! Research   August 2011 - May 2012
Columbia University  August 2008 - August 2011

Skills
R, Time Series Analysis, Statistics, Probabilistic Models, Probability Theory, Hadoop, Apache Pig, Statistical Modeling, Data, Online Advertising, Big Data, High Dimensional Data, Large Deviations, Extreme Value Analysis, Computational..., Python, Matlab, Data Science, Predictive Modeling, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Optimization, Algorithms, Data Analysis

Education
Cornell University   2003 — 2008
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Probability and Statistics

Indian Statistical Institute   1998 — 2003
Masters; Bachelors, Statistics

Ioannis (Yanni) Antonellis Ioannis (Yanni) Antonellis Sunnyvale, California Details
Ioannis (Yanni) Antonellis's Yahoo! Research Experience June 2009 - September 2009
Job Engineering & Data Science Leader
Industry Research
Experience
Upwork  May 2015 - Present
Elance-oDesk  December 2014 - May 2015
Elance-oDesk  April 2014 - December 2014
oDesk  September 2011 - April 2014
Nextag  September 2010 - September 2011
Stanford  September 2006 - January 2011
Yahoo!  June 2010 - September 2010
Yahoo! Research   June 2009 - September 2009
Microsoft  June 2008 - September 2008
Yahoo! Research   June 2007 - September 2007

Skills
Machine Learning, Search Engine Technology, Data Mining, Search, Sponsored Search, Collaborative Filtering, Algorithms, Recommender Systems, Hadoop, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Natural Language..., Java, Python, Perl, R, JavaScript, Matlab, Databases, Text Mining, Django, Text Classification, Search Engine, Computer Science, Big Data, Algorithm Design, Human Computer..., Lucene, MongoDB, Entrepreneurship, Data Science, MapReduce, Scalability, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Web Development, Git, Ruby, LaTeX, Ruby on Rails, Optimization, Bash, SEM

Education
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business   2013 — 2013
High Impact Leadership, Business Administration and Management, General

Stanford University   2006 — 2011
PhD candidate, Computer Science

Stanford University   2006 — 2011
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science

University of Patras, Greece   2001 — 2006
Diploma, Computer Engineering and Informatics

Deepak Agarwal Deepak Agarwal Mountain View, California Details
Deepak Agarwal's Yahoo! Research Experience February 2008 - April 2012
Job Senior Director of Engineering at LinkedIn
Industry Internet
Experience
LinkedIn  May 2015 - Present
SIGKDD   June 2013 - Present
LinkedIn  October 2014 - April 2015
LinkedIn  April 2012 - September 2014
Yahoo! Research   February 2008 - April 2012
yahoo!  2006 - 2008
AT&T  August 2001 - January 2006

Skills
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, Recommender Systems, Science, R, Data Analysis, Predictive Modeling, Optimization, Big Data

Education
The University of Connecticut   1998 — 2001
PhD, Statistics

Byung-Gon Chun Byung-Gon Chun San Francisco Bay Area Details
Byung-Gon Chun's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2011 - November 2012
Job Assistant Professor at Seoul National University
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Seoul National University  September 2013 - Present
Microsoft  November 2012 - August 2013
Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley   June 2012 - November 2012
Yahoo! Research   May 2011 - November 2012
Intel Labs Berkeley   2008 - 2011
International Computer Science Institute  2007 - 2008

Skills
Algorithms, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Hadoop, MapReduce, Computer Science, Scalability, Big Data, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Software Engineering, C++, High Performance..., Parallel Computing, C, Optimization, Linux, Java, Algorithm Design, Software Development, Programming, Software Design, Git, Unix, Parallel Programming, Android, Eclipse

Education
University of California, Berkeley   2002 — 2007
PhD, Computer Science

Stanford University   1999 — 2002
MS, Computer Science

Seoul National University   1994 — 1996
MS, Electronic Engineering

Seoul National University   1990 — 1994
BS, Electronic Engineering

Arpita Ghosh Arpita Ghosh Ithaca, New York Details
Arpita Ghosh's Yahoo! Research Experience July 2006 - August 2012
Job Associate Professor at Cornell University
Industry Higher Education
Experience
Cornell University  July 2012 - Present
Yahoo! Research   July 2006 - August 2012

Education
Stanford University   2001 — 2006
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Fan Yang Fan Yang San Francisco Bay Area Details
Fan Yang's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2007 - May 2008
Job Software Engineer at Dropbox
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Dropbox  January 2015 - Present
Google  July 2008 - January 2015
Yahoo! Research   May 2007 - May 2008
Cornell University  2004 - May 2008
IBM Almaden Research Center  May 2006 - August 2006

Skills
Distributed Systems, Hadoop, Algorithms, MapReduce, Computer Science, Scalability, Java, Big Data

Education
Cornell University   2003 — 2008
Ph.D., Computer Science

Peking University   1999 — 2003
B.S., Computer Science

Ahmed Hassan Awadallah Ahmed Hassan Awadallah Greater Seattle Area Details
Ahmed Hassan Awadallah's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2008 - August 2008
Job Researcher, Microsoft Research
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Microsoft Research  May 2011 - Present
University of Michigan  September 2007 - May 2011
Microsoft Research  May 2010 - August 2010
Yahoo! Labs  May 2009 - August 2009
Yahoo! Research   May 2008 - August 2008
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center   February 2005 - August 2007
Cairo University  September 2003 - August 2007

Skills
Machine Learning, Natural Language..., Text Mining, C++, Hadoop, Information Retrieval, Search, User Behavior Modeling, Computational..., Social Network Analysis, Data Science, Algorithms, LaTeX, Matlab, Computer Science, Python, Artificial Intelligence, R, Data Mining, Statistical and Applied..., Pattern Recognition, Information Extraction, Computer Vision, Programming

Education
University of Michigan   2007 — 2011
Ph.D, Computer Science and Engineering 2007 ­ Present

Cairo University   2004 — 2007
M.Sc, Computer Engineering

Cairo University   1998 — 2003
B.Sc, Computer Engineering

Marc'Aurelio Ranzato Marc'Aurelio Ranzato San Francisco Bay Area Details
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato's Yahoo! Research Experience June 2008 - August 2008
Job Research Scientist
Industry Research
Experience
Facebook  September 2013 - Present
Google  September 2011 - September 2013
University of Toronto  July 2009 - August 2011
New York University  2004 - 2009
Yahoo! Research   June 2008 - August 2008
Microsoft Research  June 2007 - August 2007

Skills
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, A.I.

Education
New York University   2004 — 2009
Ph.D., Computer Science

California Institute of Technology   2004 — 2004

Don Metzler Don Metzler Greater Los Angeles Area Details
Don Metzler's Yahoo! Research Experience September 2007 - April 2010
Job Staff Software Engineer at Google
Industry Internet
Experience
Google  May 2012 - Present
Yahoo!  March 2012 - May 2012
University of Southern California  July 2011 - March 2012
Chomp  July 2011 - February 2012
Information Sciences Institute  April 2010 - February 2012
Yahoo Research  September 2007 - April 2010
University of Massachusetts Amherst  September 2002 - August 2007
Microsoft Research  June 2006 - August 2006

Skills
Information Retrieval, Web Search, Natural Language..., Data Mining, Text Mining, Ranking, Learning to Rank, Social Media, Hadoop, Computational..., Machine Learning, Information Extraction, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Text Analytics, MapReduce, Search Engines, Search, Online Advertising, Computer Science, Scalability, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Computational..., Big Data, Pattern Recognition

Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst   2002 — 2007
M.S./Ph.D., Computer Science

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology   1998 — 2002
B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics

Dennis DeCoste Dennis DeCoste San Francisco Bay Area Details
Dennis DeCoste's Yahoo! Research Experience October 2003 - August 2006
Job CoFounder at stealth mode startup
Industry Internet
Experience
Stealth mode startup  April 2015 - Present
eBay  January 2011 - April 2015
Facebook  October 2008 - December 2010
Microsoft  August 2006 - October 2008
Yahoo! Research   October 2003 - August 2006
Jet Propulsion Laboratory  May 1992 - September 2003
UC Irvine  May 2003 - July 2003

Skills
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data, Hadoop, C++, Python, R, Scalability, Hive, SVM, Bayesian statistics, Technical Leadership, Java, Online Advertising, Search, Robotics, XML, Software Engineering, Perl, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Distributed Systems, Computer Science, Information Retrieval, Natural Language..., Pattern Recognition, MapReduce, Software Development, Matlab, SQL, Research, Text Mining

Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD, Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 5.0 / 5.0

Lance Riedel Lance Riedel San Francisco Bay Area Details
Lance Riedel's Yahoo! Research Experience 2004 - January 2009
Job Engineer/Founder
Industry Internet
Experience
Pinterest  January 2015 - Present
Kosei   April 2014 - January 2015
The Hive, LLC  2012 - 2014
Jive Software  March 2011 - April 2013
Proximal Labs   2010 - March 2011
Flipagram  2009 - 2010
Yahoo  2004 - January 2009
Yahoo! Research   2004 - January 2009
Overture  2004 - 2005
Verity, Inc.   2000 - 2003

Skills
Hadoop, Apache Pig, HBase, Big Data, Lucene, Information Retrieval, Search, MapReduce, Online Advertising, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Solr, NoSQL, Enterprise Search, MongoDB, Cassandra, Algorithms, Analytics, Data Science, Scalability, Cloud Computing

Education
Principia College   1992 — 1993
B.S. Computer Science, minors Math, Physics, Honors

Beijing University of Technology   1993 — 1993

The University of Texas at Austin
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

Ken Schmidt Ken Schmidt Greater New York City Area Details
Ken Schmidt's Yahoo! Research Experience April 2006 - March 2007
Job Head of Global Operations, Yahoo Labs
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
Yahoo!  April 2007 - Present
KS TechPros   November 2001 - April 2007
Sarnoff Corporation  August 2006 - March 2007
Yahoo! Research   April 2006 - March 2007
DARPA  December 2005 - July 2006
DARPA/IPTO   June 2002 - October 2005
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  2002 - 2005
AT&T Labs - Research  January 1999 - March 2002
AT&T Labs  1999 - 2002
AT&T Research  1995 - 2002

Skills
Operations Management, R&D Management, Team Leadership, University Relations, Proposal Writing, New Business Development, Software Development, Documentation, Research, R&D Operations, Management, Cross-functional Team..., Program Management, Business Development, Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Product Management, Software Documentation, Project Planning, Training

Education
New York University   1976 — 1981
MBA, Marketing and Strategic Planning

Carnegie Mellon University   1971 — 1973
MS, Mechanical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University   1967 — 1971
BS, Mechanical Engineering

Arnab Nandi Arnab Nandi Columbus, Ohio Details
Arnab Nandi's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2009 - July 2009
Job Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University
Industry Computer Software
Experience
The Ohio State University  January 2012 - Present
Microsoft Research Search Labs   June 2011 - September 2011
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  August 2005 - April 2011
Yahoo! Research   May 2009 - July 2009
Microsoft Research  June 2008 - August 2008
Google  June 2007 - September 2007
Yahoo!  May 2005 - August 2005
IIT Bombay  July 2004 - April 2005

Skills
Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Databases, Computer Science, Search, Human Computer..., User Interface Design

Education
University of Michigan   2005 — 2011
PhD

University of Delhi   2000 — 2004
Bachelor of Information Science

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya   1997 — 2000

St. Xaviers Collegiate School, Calcutta   1992 — 1997

Georges-Eric Dupret Georges-Eric Dupret San Francisco Bay Area Details
Georges-Eric Dupret's Yahoo! Research Experience March 2006 - 2008
Job
Industry Research
Experience
AliveCor Inc.  December 2014 - Present
Yahoo!  October 2008 - December 2014
Universidad de Chile  2007 - 2008
yahoo! Research   March 2006 - 2008
IBM Research  2001 - 2003

Skills
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Search, Data Analysis, Statistical Modeling, Statistics, Algorithms, Web Mining, Recommender Systems, Big Data, Hadoop, Computer Science, R, Natural Language...

Education
筑波大学 / University of Tsukuba, Japan   1994 — 2000
Ph.D.

Université catholique de Louvain   1988 — 1991
Ingenieur Civil en Mathematiques Appliquees / Economie

Francais, Espanol, Portugues, English

Nilesh Dalvi Nilesh Dalvi San Francisco Bay Area Details
Nilesh Dalvi's Yahoo! Research Experience 2007 - September 2012
Job Founder at Troo.ly
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Troo.ly  December 2013 - Present
Facebook  September 2012 - December 2013
Yahoo! Research   2007 - September 2012
University of Washington  2001 - 2007
IBM Almaden Research Center  April 2006 - July 2006
Microsoft  June 2004 - August 2004
Lucent Bell Laboratories  June 2002 - September 2002
IIT, Bombay  1997 - 2001

Skills
Machine Learning, Algorithms, Hadoop, Distributed Systems, Natural Language..., MapReduce, Information Retrieval, Computer Science, Data Mining, Python, Text Mining, Scalability, Pattern Recognition, Well Being, OnTime

Education
University of Washington   2001 — 2007
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay   1997 — 2001
B.Tech, Computer Science

Aleksandra Korolova Aleksandra Korolova Los Angeles, California Details
Aleksandra Korolova's Yahoo! Research Experience June 2009 - September 2009
Job Assistant Professor of Computer Science at USC
Industry Research
Experience
Google  2011 - 2014
Yahoo! Research   June 2009 - September 2009
Microsoft Research Search Labs   June 2008 - September 2008
Facebook  July 2007 - September 2007
Bracebridge Capital, LLC  November 2004 - May 2005
Palo Alto Research Center  June 2004 - September 2004
Expedia  June 2002 - August 2002

Skills
Data Privacy, Algorithms, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence

Education
Stanford University
Ph.D., Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., Mathematics with Computer Science

Fernando Diaz Fernando Diaz Greater New York City Area Details
Fernando Diaz's Yahoo! Research Experience September 2003 - December 2003
Job Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research NYC
Industry Research
Experience
Microsoft Research NYC   May 2012 - Present
New York University  January 2013 - Present
Yahoo!  January 2008 - May 2012
UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics   September 2007 - December 2007
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval   September 2001 - August 2007
Yahoo Research  September 2003 - December 2003
Overture Research   June 2003 - August 2003
Sony Computer Science Lab   June 2001 - August 2001
ProQuest  May 1999 - August 2000

Skills
Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Search, Machine Learning, Grid Computing, Hadoop, Algorithms, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Computational..., Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Human Computer..., Information Extraction, MapReduce, Natural Language..., Pattern Recognition, Text Mining, Statistics, Apache Pig, Recommender Systems

Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst   2004 — 2007
PhD, Computer Science

University of Massachusetts, Amherst   2000 — 2004
MS, Computer Science

University of Michigan   1993 — 1998
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Ning Yu Ning Yu Washington, District Of Columbia Details
Ning Yu's Yahoo! Research Experience 2008 - 2008
Job Data Scientist at LivingSocial
Industry Market Research
Experience
LivingSocial  June 2014 - Present
University of Kentucky  August 2011 - June 2014
Indiana University Bloomington  June 2010 - August 2011
Indiana University Digital Library Program   September 2009 - November 2010
Yahoo! Research   2008 - 2008
Indiana University Bloomington  August 2005 - August 2007
US Air Force Academy  September 2004 - August 2007
Indiana University Bloomington  August 2004 - August 2005
Indiana University Bloomington  January 2004 - August 2004

Skills
Machine Learning, XML, PHP, Subversion, Python, JavaScript, Perl, CSS, SQL, Information Retrieval, XSLT, SPSS, HTML, MySQL, Java, Programming, Unix, Databases, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Computational..., LaTeX

Education
Indiana University Bloomington   2004 — 2008
Ph.D., Information Science

Indiana University Bloomington   2002 — 2004
Master, Information Science

Shandong University   1997 — 2001
Bachelor, Information Management & Information System

Raghu Ramakrishnan Raghu Ramakrishnan Redmond, Washington Details
Raghu Ramakrishnan's Yahoo! Research Experience 2006 - March 2012
Job Technical Fellow, CTO Information Services, Head of Engineering for Big Data
Industry Internet
Experience
Microsoft  September 2013 - Present
Microsoft  April 2012 - Present
Yahoo!  October 2010 - March 2012
Yahoo! Research   2006 - March 2012
Yahoo!  June 2006 - October 2010
University of Wisconsin  1987 - 2009
Quiq  1999 - 2003
University of Texas at Austin  1983 - 1987

Skills
Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Algorithms, Software Engineering, Big Data, Scalability, Software Development, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Java, Data Mining, Hadoop, Perl, MapReduce, Agile Methodologies, Python, Databases, Tomcat, Spring, C++, Artificial Intelligence, Architecture, Analytics, Analysis, Information Retrieval

Education
The University of Texas at Austin   1983 — 1987
Ph.D., Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras   1978 — 1983
B.Tech.

Grammar   1971 — 1976

Esteban Arcaute Esteban Arcaute San Francisco Bay Area Details
Esteban Arcaute's Yahoo! Research Experience June 2008 - September 2008
Job Sr Director and Head of Data Science @WalmartLabs
Industry Research
Experience
@WalmartLabs  May 2014 - Present
Adchemy (acquired by @WalmartLabs)   July 2013 - April 2014
Adchemy (acquired by @WalmartLabs)   January 2012 - June 2013
Adchemy (acquired by @WalmartLabs)   October 2009 - December 2011
Stanford University  October 2008 - September 2009
Yahoo! Research   June 2008 - September 2008
Stanford University  June 2008 - August 2008
Yahoo! Research   June 2007 - September 2007
Yahoo! Research   June 2006 - September 2006
SEGIME   April 2003 - April 2004

Skills
Statistical Modeling, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Python, Analytics, Data Mining, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Optimization, Algorithm Design, Game Theory, Mathematical Modeling, Online Advertising

Education
Stanford University   2004 — 2009
Ph.D., Computational and Mathematical Engineering

Stanford University   2004 — 2007
MS, Computational and Mathematical Engineering

Université de Metz   2001 — 2002
Masters, Applied Mathematics

École Supérieure d'Électricité   1998 — 2002
Ingenieur, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sainte Geneviève   1995 — 1998
Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, Physique et Chimie

Lycee Franco Mexicain   1983 — 1995
Baccalauréat Scientifique, Mathematics

Vlad Kaplun Vlad Kaplun San Francisco Bay Area Details
Vlad Kaplun's Yahoo! Research Experience 2006 - 2007
Job IS Support Technician at Berkeley Public Library
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
Berkeley Public Library  March 2012 - Present
Yahoo! Research   2006 - 2007

Skills
JavaScript, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Web Development, Technical Support, Networking, Active Directory..., VoIP, Integrated Library..., Qualitative Research, Usability Testing, Pie

Education
University of California, Berkeley   2001 — 2005
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science

Kelly Cammer Kelly Cammer San Francisco Bay Area Details
Kelly Cammer's Yahoo! Research Experience April 2004 - June 2006
Job .
Industry Executive Office
Experience
Twilio, Inc.   March 2014 - Present
United Online  June 2006 - December 2010
Yahoo! Research   April 2004 - June 2006
SeeBeyond  September 2002 - April 2004
PLX Systems   June 2001 - September 2002
Pioneer Ram   June 1999 - May 2001
Universal Orlando  September 1997 - June 1999

Skills
Cpr Certified, Project Management, Leadership, Product Management, Social Media, Customer Service, Office Management, Administrative..., Management, Marketing, Administration, Event Management, Start-ups, Microsoft Excel, Team Building, Analysis, Event Planning, Social Networking

Education
Concord Law School - Kaplan University   2005 — 2007
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law

University of Central Florida   1993 — 1995
Bachelor’s Degree, Major: Interpersonal Communications, Minor: Industrial Pschology

Andreas Neumann Andreas Neumann San Francisco Bay Area Details
Andreas Neumann's Yahoo! Research Experience July 2008 - November 2009
Job Chief Architect at Cask
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
Cask Data  April 2012 - Present
Apache Software Foundation  December 2013 - Present
Yahoo!  April 2010 - March 2012
Yahoo!  2009 - April 2010
Yahoo! Research   July 2008 - November 2009
IBM  July 2004 - June 2008
IBM Germany  August 2000 - May 2004
University of Trier   November 1994 - July 2000

Skills
Hadoop, HBase, Lucene, MapReduce, Distributed Systems, Java, System Architecture, Big Data, Agile Methodologies, Cloud Computing, Search, Machine Learning, Linux, Scalability, REST, Java Enterprise Edition, Architecture, Open Source, Software Development, Apache Pig, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Hive, NoSQL, Information Retrieval, Architectures, Object Oriented Design, Natural Language..., Apache Hadoop

Education
Universität Trier   1994 — 2000
Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science

Universität Dortmund   1988 — 1994
Diploma, Computer Science

Otto Pankok   1978 — 1987
Abitur, Mathematics, French

Vikas Sindhwani Vikas Sindhwani Greater New York City Area Details
Vikas Sindhwani's Yahoo! Research Experience July 2005 - October 2005
Job Machine Intelligence Researcher at Google
Industry Research
Experience
Google  January 2015 - Present
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center   May 2014 - January 2015
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center   May 2008 - April 2014
Riya/Like.com (acquired by Google)   July 2007 - March 2008
Yahoo Research  July 2005 - October 2005
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)   June 2004 - September 2004
Centre for AI and Robotics   1999 - 2000

Skills
SEM, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Algorithms, Scalability, Information Retrieval, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, MPI, Hadoop, MapReduce, Distributed Systems, Optimization, Computer Vision, Big Data, Statistical Modeling, Statistics, Analytics, High Performance...

Education
The University of Chicago   2001 — 2007
MS and Ph.D., Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay   1997 — 2001
B.Tech, Engineering Physics

Yiling Chen Yiling Chen Greater Boston Area Details
Yiling Chen's Yahoo! Research Experience 2006 - June 2008
Job Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Industry Internet
Experience
Harvard University  July 2015 - Present
Harvard University  July 2013 - June 2015
Harvard University  July 2012 - June 2015
Harvard University  June 2008 - June 2012
Yahoo! Research   2006 - June 2008
Penn State University  2001 - 2005

Skills
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, R, Computer Science, Statistical Modeling, Game Theory, Python, Statistics, Matlab, Research, Text Mining, Distributed Systems, Data Analysis, Big Data, Mathematical Modeling

Education
Penn State University   2001 — 2005
PhD, Information Sciences and Technology

Tsinghua University   1996 — 1999
MS, Finance

Renmin University of China   1992 — 1996
BS, Commodity Science

Vanessa Murdock Vanessa Murdock Greater Seattle Area Details
Vanessa Murdock's Yahoo! Research Experience 2012 - August 2012
Job Principal Applied Researcher at Bing (Microsoft)
Industry Research
Experience
Microsoft  August 2012 - Present
Yahoo! Research   2012 - August 2012
Yahoo! Research   January 2009 - March 2012
Yahoo! Research Barcelona   September 2006 - December 2008
University of Massachusetts at Amherst  September 2001 - September 2006

Skills
Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Hadoop, LaTeX, Perl, Java, Search, Science, Computer Science

Education
University of Massachusetts   2001 — 2006
PhD, Computer Science

University of Massachusetts, Amherst   2001 — 2006
Master of Science, Computer Science

Colorado State University   1998 — 2001
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Steven Euijong Whang Steven Euijong Whang San Francisco Bay Area Details
Steven Euijong Whang's Yahoo! Research Experience June 2008 - December 2008
Job Research Scientist at Google Research
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Google  December 2012 - Present
Stanford University  June 2012 - December 2012
Stanford University  September 2007 - June 2012
Yahoo! Research   June 2008 - December 2008
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories  June 2007 - September 2007
Orom Info. Co. Ltd.   January 2003 - May 2005

Skills
Hadoop, Databases, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Database Design, Information Retrieval, Data Mining

Education
Stanford University   2007 — 2012
Ph.D., Computer Science

Stanford University   2005 — 2007
M.S., Computer Science

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   1999 — 2003
B.S., Computer Science

Jangwon Seo Jangwon Seo San Francisco Bay Area Details
Jangwon Seo's Yahoo! Research Experience 2010 - 2010
Job Software Engineer at Google
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Google  August 2011 - Present
University of Massachusetts  2006 - September 2011
Yahoo! Research   2010 - 2010
NHN  March 2003 - July 2006

Skills
Natural Language..., Machine Learning, Java, Algorithms

Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst   2006 — 2011
PhD, Computer Science

Seoul National University
BS, Electrical Engineering

Ashton Anderson Ashton Anderson San Francisco Bay Area Details
Ashton Anderson's Yahoo! Research Experience June 2011 - September 2011
Job CS PhD student at Stanford University
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Stanford University  September 2010 - Present
Google  June 2013 - September 2013
Microsoft Research  June 2012 - September 2012
Yahoo! Research   June 2011 - September 2011
Stanford University  September 2009 - June 2010
Rocket Fuel Inc.  June 2009 - September 2009
Stanford University  January 2009 - June 2009
MITACS  2008 - 2008
McGill University  May 2007 - August 2007

Education
Stanford University   2010 — 2015
PhD, Computer Science

Stanford University   2008 — 2010
Master's, Computer Science

McGill University   2004 — 2008
B.S.E, Software Engineering

Amin Sayedi Amin Sayedi Seattle, Washington Details
Amin Sayedi's Yahoo! Research Experience February 2009 - May 2009
Job Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business
Industry Research
Experience
University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business   July 2014 - Present
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  July 2012 - June 2014
Carnegie Mellon University  2007 - July 2012
Microsoft  May 2010 - July 2010
Yahoo! Research   February 2009 - May 2009

Skills
Marketing Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Game Theory, Online Auctions, Online Advertising, Paid Search Strategy, Machine Learning, Graph Theory, Algorithms, Social Media Marketing, Social Network Analysis, Mechanism Design

Education
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business   2007 — 2012
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Industrial Administration

Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business   2007 — 2009
Master of Science (M.S.), Industrial Administration

Sharif University of Technology   2003 — 2007
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Bo Long Bo Long San Francisco Bay Area Details
Bo Long's Yahoo! Research Experience May 2005 - August 2005
Job Staff Applied Researcher at LinkedIn
Industry Internet
Experience
LinkedIn  July 2012 - Present
Yahoo! Labs  August 2008 - July 2012
IBM Watson Research Center  May 2007 - August 2007
Google Lab   May 2006 - November 2006
Yahoo! Research   May 2005 - August 2005

Skills
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data, Information Retrieval, Hadoop, Text Mining, MapReduce, Recommender Systems, Java, Python, Apache Pig, R, C++, Algorithms, Natural Language..., Pattern Recognition, Information Extraction, Artificial Intelligence, Scalability, Computer Science, Social Network Analysis, Collaborative Filtering, Text Classification, Computer Vision, Semantic Web, Text Analytics, Data Science, Algorithm Design, Web Mining, Computational..., Search Engines, Optimization, Distributed Systems

Education
State University of New York at Binghamton
Ph.D, Computer Science

Bo Pang Bo Pang Sunnyvale, California Details
Bo Pang's Yahoo! Research Experience 2006 - June 2012
Job Research Scientist at Google
Industry Internet
Experience
Google  June 2012 - Present
Yahoo! Research   2006 - June 2012

Education
Cornell University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Tsinghua University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science