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I joined Yahoo! Labs in 2009 to head its Israel Research team. If you are interested in exciting research, innovating and publishing about it, all this while having fun, you might want to consider the Yahoo! Labs Israel office located in Haifa, we are hiring! This is a unique opportunity both for
- researchers and fresh PhD who want to maintain or build Academic visibility and at the same time impact hundreds of millions of users, or
- engineers who want to be "research engineers" i.e., who want to focus on really cool and innovative ideas and not maintain their old codebases for years
More info at the top of our Labs Job Opportunities page. Post-docs and visiting scientists are encouraged to apply. Feel free to contact me directly as well by email.
To send me mail, just concatenate yoelle with the usual @ and ymail.com. This tedious explanation should take care of most robots since natural language understanding is not working (I believe in search and statistics rather than natural language understanding:-)
I am including below a "professional looking" bio and am in general happy to talk about Web search, social applications and research in general, as well as how it is to work in high tech in the northern area of Israel.
Yahoo! Israel is located in the Park Matam in Haifa, just across the beach, in Tower 3, top floor. Don't look for a phone number, I believe in email:-)
Yoelle Maarek is the Senior Director of Yahoo! Research in Israel. Prior to this, Yoelle was the Director of Google Haifa Engineering Center, which she opened in 2006 and grew to close to 40 researchers and software engineers. There, she led the development of "Suggest", Google's query completion feature deployed on google.com and YouTube worldwide. From 1989 until 2006, Yoelle was with IBM Research, first in the US, and then in Israel, where she held a number of technical and management positions, eventually leading the search and collaboration department and becoming a Distinguished Engineer. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Technion, in Haifa, Israel, in 1989, during her PhD studies, she spent a year at Columbia University in New York as a visiting PhD student. Prior to this, she graduated from the "Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees" in Paris, France, and received her DEA (graduate degree) in Computer Science from Paris VI University, both in 1985. Yoelle's research interests include information retrieval, Web search and Web applications. She has published over 50 articles in these fields and is active in the research community. She has served as regular or senior PC member at most recent SIGIR, WWW and WSDM conferences, as PC co-chair of WWW'2009 and is currently serving as PC co-chair for WSDM'2012 and SIGIR'2012. Yoelle is a member of the editorial board of the Information Processing and Management journal, and of the Board of Governors of the Technion. She was appointed ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2010.