George Levchenko - Senior UI/UX Designer

Research Area: Search Technologies, Web Information Management
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

George Levchenko is a Sr. User Interface Designer for Yahoo! Research. He has extensive graphic user interface design experience, and a proven ability to represent concepts through his design.

Prior to Yahoo!, he worked for Andale as a UI manager. George was responsible for User Experience of Andale products, and managed a team of web developers and designers in the US and India in design and implementation of Andale Research software products.

George has a great deal of experience in the fields of digital media productions including both photo and video. You can see his work at geotonphoto.com and glnet.tv.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • InStore - Shop using your mobile phone and scan products for product details
  • The Predictalot Experiment for the World Cup - Predictalot, our crowdsourcing experiment, is going global. This time, you can predict almost anything your heart desires about the World Cup in South Africa, like whether Germany will advance further than Brazil or a team will win that has never won before. You can compose any of millions of predictions and sell them any time for virtual points, even in the middle of a match, just like the stock market.
  • Pig - Parallel processing is the name of the game. Our system runs on a cluster computing architecture, on top of which sit several layers of abstraction that ultimately bring the power of parallel computing into the hands of ordinary users.
  • Friend Sense - How well do you really know your friends? Guess their views on life, politics and relationships. Answer questions about yourself and find out who knows you best!
  • Zync - Sharing time-based content such as video can be arduous. People share links of video content to each other by sending URLs which does little for conversational feedback.
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