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Research Area: Computational Advertising |
Profile
Andrei Broder is a Yahoo! Research Fellow and Vice President for Computational Advertising. Previously he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of the Institute for Search and Text Analysis in IBM Research.
From 1999 until early 2002 he was Vice President for Research and Chief Scientist at the AltaVista Company. Before that he has been a senior member of the research staff at Compaq's Systems Research Center in Palo Alto.
He was graduated Summa cum Laude from Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, and obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University under Don Knuth.
Broder is co-winner of the Best Paper award at WWW6 (for his work on duplicate elimination of web pages) and at WWW9 (for his work on mapping the web).
He has published more than seventy papers and was awarded twenty patents. He is an IEEE fellow and served as chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- To Swing or not to Swing: Learning when (not) to Advertise Andrei Broder; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Marcus Fontoura; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Vanja Josifovski; Donald Metzler; Vanessa Murdock; Vassilis Plachouras, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008 [view abstract]
- The Hiring Problem and Lake Wobegon Strategies Andrei Broder; Adam Kirsch; Ravi Kumar; Michael Mitzenmacher; Eli Upfal; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2008
- Just-in-Time Contextual Advertising Anagnostopoulos, Aris ; Broder, Andrei ; Gabrilovich, Evgeniy ; Josifovski, Vanja ; Riedel, Lance, CIKM, 2007
- Estimating Rates of Rare Events at Multiple Resolutions D. Agarwal; A. Broder; D. Chakrabarti; D. Diklic; V. Josifovski; M. Sayyadian, KDD, 2007