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Overview
Schedule
Program
Speakers
Full Papers
Position Papers
Attendee Bios
Call for Participation
Important Dates
Organizing Committee
Related Workshops
These attendees have volunteered short biographies in advance of the workshop. If you plan to attend and would like to contribute your own biography please send it to QueryLogs@yahoogroups.com.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Director of Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain and Yahoo! Research Latin America at Santiago, Chile. Until 2005 he was the director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile; and ICREA Professor at the Dept. of Technology of Univ. Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He is co-author of the book Modern Information Retrieval, published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley, as well as co-author of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures, Addison-Wesley, 1991; and co-editor of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data Structures, Prentice-Hall, 1992, among more than 150 other publications. He has received the Organization of American States award for young researchers in exact sciences (1993) and with two Brazilian colleagues obtained the COMPAQ prize for the best CS Brazilian research article (1997). In 2003 he was the first computer scientist to be elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
Judit Bar-Ilan
Judit Bar-Ilan is a senior lecturer at the Department of Information Science of the Bar-Ilan University. She received her PhD in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She started her research in information science in the mid-1990s. Her areas of interest include: information retrieval, informetrics, the semantic Web, Internet research, information behavior and usability.
Ziv Bar-Yossef
Ziv is a research scientist at Google Haifa and a faculty member at the Technion's department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in web search, web data mining, XML, and theoretical computer science.
Tom Cross, IBM
Tom Cross is a computer security researcher. He is a member of IBM Internet Security System's X-Force Advanced Research Team, where he focuses on vulnerability research and emerging technologies. In 2001, Tom cofounded MemeStreams, an innovative collaborative blogging system. Tom has operated electronic communities both on the web and over the modem since 1991. He is an advocate of Internet privacy and freedom and frequently speaks on technology policy issues.
Georges Dupret Georges Dupret graduated as a civil engineer in Applied Mathematics from the University of Louvain, Belgium. He obtained his PhD from the University of Tsukuba, Japan for his work on spatial data forecasting based on Artificial Neural Network. Simultaneously, he worked for the IBM TRL Research Laboratory and later in the Zürich lab in the field of Information Retrieval for the automatic identification of relevant topics and issues in a call center transaction data and Quality Insurance data. After two years as a researcher in the Center for Web Research in Santiago, Chile, he is now working for Yahoo! Research Latin America. Topics of interest are web mining, clickthrough data analysis and modelization, query disambiguation, recommendation and rewriting and automatic taxonomy construction.
Raghav Gupta, Principal Research Scientist at eBay
Raghav Gupta invented eBay's new "Category Sort" algorithm, eBay's relevance search algorithm (sadly called "Best Match"), the Related Searches algorithm, the contextual relevance keyword extraction algorithm for eBay AdContext, real-time geographical distance computation algorithm for searching/sorting by distance. Raghav also designed a new fast hierarchical search engine for massive amounts of mined behavioral data, to be fed back real-time into the live relevance engine. His current research activities include image comparison, and machine translation.
Yiqun Liu
Yiqun Liu is a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
A poster about Yiqun Liu's work with Min Zhang will be presented at WWW'07 titled " Automatic Search Engine Performance Evaluation with Click-through Data Analysis "
Gleb Skobeltsyn
Gleb is a PhD student in Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He works on query-driven indexing mechanisms in structured P2P networks.
Ganesan Velayathan
Ganesan Velayathan is a Ph.D candidate of The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, National Institute of Information Tokyo, Japan. Interested in the relation of user browsing behavior. Working on search engine fields for almost 10 years, and also a SEO/SEM consultant in GNETWORKS TOKYO JAPAN.
Ryen W. White, Microsoft Research, USA
Ryen W. White is a Researcher in the Text Mining, Search, and Navigation Group at Microsoft Research. His research interests include exploratory search, implicit relevance feedback, query expansion, log analysis, and the evaluation of search systems with humans and simulations. Ryen has authored over 50 conference and journal publications, received two "best paper" awards, and the British Computer Society's Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best Computer Science Ph.D. in the United Kingdom in 2005. He was guest co-editor of the April 2006 issue of Communications of the ACM entitled "Supporting Exploratory Search", and has co-organized (or is co-organizing) workshops at SIGIR (2006,2007) and SIGCHI (2007) in the general area of Web information-seeking and interaction.
Li Xiong
Li Xiong is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University. She holds a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MS from Johns Hopkins, both in Computer Science. She also worked as a software engineer in IT industry for several years prior to pursuing her doctorate. Her general interests are in data and information management, distributed computing, trust and information privacy, bio and health informatics.
Yabo-Arber, Xu
Yabo-Arber, Xu is currently a Ph.D. candidate working with Prof. Ke Wang in Computer Science School at Simon Fraser University in Canada. His research interests include information sharing and privacy, various techniques in data mining and secure distributed computing.
Min Zhang
Min Zhang is an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Major research interests include information retrieval and machine learning.
A poster about Min Zhang's work with Yiqun Lin will be presented at WWW'07 titled " Automatic Search Engine Performance Evaluation with Click-through Data Analysis "
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