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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
Ravi Kumar joined Yahoo! Research in July 2005. Prior to this, he was a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies group. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University in December 1997.
His primary interests are web algorithms, algorithms for large data sets, and theory of computation.
Email: ravikumar AT yahoo-inc DOT com
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Dynamics of Conversations Ravi Kumar; Mohammad Mahdian; Mary McGlohon, 2010
- Finding the Jaccard Median Flavio Chierichetti; Ravi Kumar; Sandeep Pandey; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2010
- Evolution of Two-Sided Markets Kumar, R.; Lifshits, Y.; Tomkins, A., WSDM, 2010 [view abstract]
- Matching Reviews to Objects using a Language Model Nilesh Dalvi;Ravi Kumar;Bo Pang;Andrew Tomkins, EMNLP, 2009
- A Web of Concepts Nilesh Dalvi;Ravi Kumar;Bo Pang;Raghu Ramakrishnan;Andrew Tomkins;Philip Bohannon;Sathiya Keerthi;Srujana Merugu, PODS, 2009
- A Translation Model for Matching Reviews to Objects Nilesh Dalvi;Ravi Kumar;Bo Pang;Andrew Tomkins, CIKM, 2009
- Mechanism Design for Complexity-Constrained Bidders Ravi Kumar; Mohammad Mahdian; Amin Sayedi, Proc. 5th WINE, 2009
- On Anonymizing Query Logs via Token-based Hashing Ravi Kumar;Jasmine Novak;Bo Pang;Andrew Tomkins, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2007