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Revision as of 08:45, 11 March 2021
Yoelle Maarek | |
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 Maarek in 2017 | |
| Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Pierre and Marie Curie University |
| Known for | Information Retrieval |
| Awards | ACM Fellow (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Amazon, Yahoo, Google, IBM |
| Website | yoelle |
Yoelle Maarek is a vice president at Amazon, responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping 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] During 2009-2017 she worked in Yahoo research in Israel. From August 2017 she joined Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research.
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
- ^ a b Bort, Julie (July 8, 2014), 22 Of The Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World, No. 12: Yahoo, Yoelle Maarek, Business Insider.
- ^ a b c d e 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
- ^ a b "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 publications indexed by Google Scholar
