Yahoo! Labs is the scientific engine powering one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide.

From idea to product innovation, Yahoo! Labs is responsible for the algorithms behind the quality of the web experience for hundreds of millions of users. We impact one out of every two people online, and we do it from some of the most interesting, diverse, creative and inspiring locations on the planet. Our scientists collaborate with each other and with scientists outside Yahoo!, pioneering innovations that improve the Yahoo! experience in both evolutionary and revolutionary ways.

Yahoo! Labs scientists invent the technologies of the future, and then make them a reality today.

Yahoo! Labs Leadership

Ron Brachman

Chief Scientist and Head of Yahoo! Labs

Ron joined Yahoo! in 2005; he was one of the original leaders who helped to define and build Yahoo! Research. He helped lay the foundation for Yahoo! Labs and led the creation of all operational processes for the worldwide organization. He also created the company-wide Academic Relations unit.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ron was the Director of the Information Processing Technology Office at DARPA. At DARPA he defined the agency's overall Cognitive Systems agenda, and created the Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, which led to the technology that now powers Apple's Siri. Before DARPA Ron held various research leadership and management positions at AT&T, both at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Labs.

Ron holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University (summa cum laude) as well as the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He has won IJCAI's Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award and AAAI's Distinguished Service Award. He served as President of AAAI from 2003 to 2005. He also edits the Synthesis Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning series of online publications for Morgan & Claypool.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

VP, Vice President of Yahoo! Research Europe and Latin America

Born in Chile, studied in Chile & Canada, previously full professor at Univ. of Chile and ICREA research professor at UPF in Barcelona. Co-author of Modern Information Retrieval (Addison-Wesley, 1999) among other books and publications. Member of the ACM, AMS, IEEE (Senior), SIAM and SCCC, as well as the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

Awards from American Organization States, Institute of Engineers of Chile, and COMPAQ. Main hobby: applied geography.

Rajeev Rastogi

Head of Yahoo! Labs Bangalore

Previously Rajeev was a Bell Labs Fellow and the founding Director of the Bell Labs Research Center in Bangalore, India. Rajeev worked at Bell Labs from 1993 until 2008. During the period, he led a number of research projects that were incorporated into Lucent products and services. These include the Datablitz main-memory database system, the Fellini multimedia storage server, and the NetInventory auto-discovery engine. His research interests include database systems, data mining, and network management. His most recent research has focused on the areas of network monitoring and security, network graph compression and analysis, and video content dissemination.

Rajeev is active in the fields of databases, data mining, and networking, and has served on the program committees of several conferences in these areas. He currently serves on the editorial board of the CACM, and has been an Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in the past. He has published over 125 papers, and filed over 70 patents of which 40 have been issued. Rajeev received his B. Tech degree from IIT Bombay, and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin.