Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a Senior Research Scientist and Manager of the NLP & IR Group at Yahoo! Research. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, and computational linguistics. He joined Yahoo! Research in 2007 after completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Gabrilovich has co-authored over 30 publications in top international conferences and journals, and filed over 20 patents. He served on the program committees of virtually every major conference in the field (including WWW, WSDM, SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, HLT, COLING, JCDL), as well as reviewed papers for ACM TOIS, ACM TOIT, ACM TWEB, IEEE TKDE, Information Processing and Management Journal, Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE), and Communications of the ACM. He also taught several tutorials on computational advertising and organized a number of workshops at top conferences.