Flavio Junqueira - Research Scientist

Research Area: Search Technologies
Location: Yahoo! Research Barcelona

Profile

I have received my PhD degree from UC San Diego in 2006 and I have been with Yahoo! Research in Barcelona since then. I have a broad set of research interests, but I'm mainly interested in distributed systems (theory and practice), dependability, and Web search systems.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Zookeeper - Distributed computing is sort of like herding cats. If not properly managed, chaos results.
  • Yahoo! Labs Showcases Scientific Excellence in 2009 - 2009 was a stellar year at Yahoo! Labs as it won seven best paper awards at these top conferences in the industry.
  • Yahoo! Research's Big Impact at SIGIR - Search experts from around the world, including more than a dozen representatives from Yahoo! Research, descended on Amsterdam late last month for the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference.