Yoelle Maarek

Yoelle Maarek
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Yahoo
Alma mater

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Pierre and Marie Curie University

École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Known for Information Retrieval
Notable awards ACM Fellow (2013)
Website
yoelle.tumblr.com/homepage

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]

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