Ron Brachman is Vice President of Worldwide Research Operations for Yahoo! Research. He is responsible for all operational activities that support Yahoo! Research, including budget, Research/business unit relationships, IP, academic outreach, website operations, and the Research Engineering function. He is also now engaged in the creation and leadership of a corporate-wide Academic Relations unit. Ron joined Yahoo! in 2005. He was one of the original leaders who helped to define and build Yahoo! Research.

He founded the lab in New York City and established the basic operational procedures for the entire research organization, acting as its main liaison to key corporate support functions.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ron was the Director of the Information Processing Technology Office at DARPA; before that he 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 and a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).