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Research Area: Search Technologies, Econ and Social Sys, Web Information Management |
Profile
Pras Sarkar joined Yahoo! Research in 2007 as a Research Engineer. Pras works on numerous internal and external projects and currently leads the engineering for the Yahoo! Research website. He also leads the Yahoo! Sandbox initiative - a showcase of few select innovations from our scientists.
Pras is also pursuing a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. Prior to working at Yahoo! he was leading the development team at a wine e-commerce startup.
Pras' interests lie in social graphs, next-generation web applications, aggregation and the semantic web, and data mining for socially and behaviorally interesting data.
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.