Olivier Chapelle - Senior research scientist

Research Area: Machine Learning
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

Olivier Chapelle is a research scientist in the machine learning group of Yahoo! Research.
He graduated in theoretical computer science from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 1999. From 1998 he has been working in AT&T Labs with V. Vapnik on Support Vector Machines and regularization theory. In 2002, he received a doctorate from the University of Paris 6 in the field of learning theory with advisors Vladimir Vapnik and Patrick Gallinari. He then pursued a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen where he worked on semi-supervised learning and kernel machines.

Since joining Yahoo! Research in 2006, Dr Chapelle has mostly been working on learning to rank.
He is associate editor for PAMI, the #1 IEEE journal in computer science.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • A Question of Relevancy - Search engine users are typically most interested in the items returned on the first page of the search results. It’s not often that users dig down into the ninth or tenth pages, because it takes too long and those results are simply not as relevant.
  • Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGIR - The SIGIR Best Paper Award was given to Jaime Arguello (Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo! intern), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Labs), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jean-Francois Crespo (Yahoo! Labs) for "Sources of Evidence for Vertical Selection".
  • Yahoo! Research at Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS 2007) - Several papers, posters and workshops were among the highlights of Yahoo! Research’s participation at NIPS 2007.