Yoelle Maarek
| Yoelle Maarek | |
|---|---|
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Yahoo |
| Alma mater |
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Information Retrieval |
| Notable awards | ACM Fellow (2013) |
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Website yoelle | |
Yoelle Maarek is a vice president at Yahoo and the head of Yahoo Research.[1][2][3]
Maarek did her undergraduate studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, earned a diplôme d'études approfondies from Pierre and Marie Curie University, and completed her doctorate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1989, under the supervision of Daniel M. Berry.[2][4] She worked at IBM from 1989 until 2006, and became a distinguished engineer at IBM before moving to Google.[1][2] In 2006, she founded the Google Haifa Engineering Center in Haifa, Israel, where one of her key projects involved autocompletion for Google and YouTube queries.[2] She moved to Yahoo in 2009 to start their research initiatives in Israel.
Maarek has served as program committee co-chair for WWW 2009, WSDM 2012 and SIGIR 2012.[2] She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion.[5] In 2013, Maarek was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to industrial leadership and to information retrieval and web search."[6][5]
References
- 1 2 Bort, Julie (July 8, 2014), 22 Of The Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World, No. 12: Yahoo, Yoelle Maarek, Business Insider.
- 1 2 3 4 5 People of ACM: Yoelle Maarek, Association for Computing Machinery, 2010
- ↑ "Yahoo Folds Its Research Unit Into The Rest Of Its Internet Business", Fortune, 2016
- ↑ Yoelle Maarek at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 "Dr Yoelle Maarek Named ACM Fellow", Focus: e-mag of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, December 12, 2013, retrieved 2015-06-15.
- ↑ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2015-06-15.
External links
- Biography at Yahoo Labs
- Yoelle Maarek at Google Scholar