Byron Dom is a Principal Research Scientist in Search Sciences. His current research focuses on machine learning, natural-language analysis and text mining. Previous positions held include: Director of Automated Content Analysis [ Yahoo! ]; Manager of Information Management Principles [ IBM Research Div. - Almaden ]; Manager of Machine Vision [ IBM Research Div. - Almaden ]; Manager of Automatic Inspection Systems [ IBM Research Div. - Watson ]; Research Staff Member(RSM) [ IBM Research Div. - Watson & Almaden ]; Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium. Also: Served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; Received (with two coauthors) Best Paper award at WWW-1999 for ""Focused crawling: a new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery". Awards, conference chairs, program committees, papers, patents, etc.