George Levchenko

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 photography at www.geotonphoto.com.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Royal Jelly - Royal Jelly provides a more efficient and flexible way of making online recommendations and connections by studying the patterns of users on social network sites.
  • Ideological Search - In what some may consider the boldest move by a tech research organization, scientists at Yahoo! today released Ideological Search – an innovative new search that allows users to control the ideology of their search results for the first time in search technology history.
  • Predicting the Future with Basketball Bets - Fantasy stock market games are all the rage with Internet users. Even Yahoo! has its Tech Buzz Game, a fantasy prediction market where players bet on the technologies they think people will search for in the future.
  • Yahoo! at VLDB 2008 - Yahoo! walked away with a total of 10 accepted papers, and several Yahoo! researchers served on various program committees.
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