Yoelle Maarek

Yoelle Maarek
Maarek in 2014
Alma mater

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Pierre and Marie Curie University

École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Known for Information Retrieval
Awards ACM Fellow (2013)
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Amazon, Yahoo, Google, IBM
Website yoelle.tumblr.com/homepage

Yoelle Maarek is a vice president at Amazon, responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research.[1][2][3]

Maarek did her undergraduate studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, earned a diplôme d'études approfondies from Pierre and Marie Curie University, and completed her doctorate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1989, under the supervision of Daniel M. Berry.[2][4] She worked at IBM from 1989 until 2006, and became a distinguished engineer at IBM before moving to Google.[1][2] In 2006, she founded the Google Haifa Engineering Center in Haifa, Israel, where one of her key projects involved autocompletion for Google and YouTube queries.[2] During 2009-2017 she worked in Yahoo research in Israel. From August 2017 she joined Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research.

Maarek has served as program committee co-chair for WWW 2009, WSDM 2012 and SIGIR 2012.[2] She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion.[5] In 2013, Maarek was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to industrial leadership and to information retrieval and web search."[6][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Bort, Julie (July 8, 2014), 22 Of The Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World, No. 12: Yahoo, Yoelle Maarek, Business Insider .
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 People of ACM: Yoelle Maarek, Association for Computing Machinery, 2010
  3. ↑ "Yahoo Folds Its Research Unit Into The Rest Of Its Internet Business", Fortune, 2016
  4. ↑ Yoelle Maarek at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. 1 2 "Dr Yoelle Maarek Named ACM Fellow", Focus: e-mag of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, December 12, 2013, retrieved 2015-06-15 .
  6. ↑ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2015-06-15.
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