Legendary American football coach Vince Lombardi once said, “People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” At Yahoo Labs, we may not be experts in football strategy, but we strongly feel our science contributes to improving the problems of our modern world – and we are confident the best science comes about as a result of collaboration.
It is in the spirit of collaboration and desire to “win” answers to complex problems that we are excited to announce the recipients of the 2013 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP). This academic outreach initiative is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty and students conducting research in areas of mutual interest. The FREP funds help academics across the globe collaborate with Yahoo research scientists on new, exciting internet research studies and experiments.
In addition to the research gift, each recipient has the opportunity to collaborate directly with distinguished Yahoo scientists and visit Yahoo Labs. Suju Rajan of Yahoo Labs will be working with Arindam Banerjee of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities to scale contextual ranking for content personalization, and separately, with Benjamin Marlin of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to identify and exploit temporal patterns in online recommender systems. In her own words, Rajan explains the importance of the Faculty Research and Engagement Program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NLr8ah06QY
We were extremely impressed with all of the submissions and would like to thank each professor who applied. Congratulations to the following recipients of the Yahoo 2013 Faculty Research and Engagement Program:
| Adriana Iamnitchi | University of South Florida |
| Arindam Banerjee | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Aryeh Kontorovich | Ben Gurion |
| Benjamin Marlin | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Georgios Paltoglou | University of Wolverhampton |
| Gert Lanckriet | University of California San Diego |
| Graham Cormode | University of Warwick |
| Huan Liu | Arizona State University |
| Ioannis Konstas | University of Edinburgh |
| Ismail Sengor Altingovde | Middle East Technical University |
| Jiawei Han | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Joy Ying Zhang | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Kamer Kaya | The Ohio State University |
| Maarten de Rijke | University of Amsterdam |
| Mausam | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Max Welling | University of Amsterdam |
| Nuno Vasconcelos | University of California San Diego |
| Oren Kurland | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| Qiaoling Liu | Emory University |
| Roberto Grossi | University di Pisa |
| Rossano Schifanella | University degli Studi di Torino |
| Sebastiano Vigna | University degli Studi di Milano |
| Slobodan Vucetic | Temple University |
| Sunita Sarawagi | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Tsachy Weissman | Stanford University |
| Varsha Apte | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Yee Whye Teh | University of Oxford |
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