Dr. Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a Principal Research Scientist and Head of the NLP & IR Group at Yahoo! Research. He authored over 50 publications in top international venues, and filed over 20 patents. Evgeniy is a recipient of the 2010 Karen Sparck Jones Award for his contributions to natural language processing and information retrieval. He served as a Senior PC member or Area Chair at SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, ICDM, and ICWSM, and served on the program committees of virtually every major conference in the field. He organized a number of workshops and taught multiple tutorials at SIGIR, ACL, IJCAI, AAAI, CIKM, and EC. Evgeniy earned his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In his Ph.D. thesis, he developed a methodology for using large scale repositories of world knowledge (e.g., all the knowledge available in Wikipedia) to enhance text representation beyond the bag of words.