Philip Bohannon - Principal Research Scientist

Research Area: Web Information Management
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

After a few years at a start-up, Philip received his Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from Rutgers in 2000. Prior to joining Yahoo! Research, he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs. His interests include XML processing, information extraction, data integration, data cleaning and a variety of indexing and performance topics.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • PNUTS - Platform for Nimble Universal Table Storage - During brainstorming sessions with colleagues Philip Bohannon and Brian Cooper, Ramakrishnan wondered whether they could design a simpler...
  • Building Better Online Communities - The Web is teeming with communities, each with its own set of interests and personalities. There are communities for video game addicts, tennis enthusiasts, academic researchers, and coin collectors, to name just a few.
  • Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGMOD 2009 - Yahoo! earned three awards this year including the Best Paper Award for "Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs" by Chris Olston, Shubham Chopra and Utkarsh Srivastava.
  • Yahoo! at VLDB 2008 - Yahoo! walked away with a total of 10 accepted papers, and several Yahoo! researchers served on various program committees.
  • Very Large Turnout for VLDB 2006 - “The Country of Morning Calm” served as the majestic location for the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Databases, held September 12 to 15 in Seoul, Korea.
  • Keynote, Best Paper Award Among List of Distinctions at ICDE 2007 - Yahoo! Research Director Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Research Scientist Philip Bohannon contribute to strong showing at the 2007 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), held April 15 – 20 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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