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Research Area: Search Technologies, Computational Advertising |
Profile
Sergei Vassilvitskii is a research scientist at Yahoo! working on all things related to computational advertising, from search & caching algorithms to mechanism design & bidding agents. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 2007, where he was a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellow (2002-2005) and a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellow (2006-2007). He received his B.S. from Cornell in 2002.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Finding the Jaccard Median Flavio Chierichetti; Ravi Kumar; Sandeep Pandey; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2010
- Optimal Online Assignments with Forecast Erik Vee; Sergei Vassilvitskii; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Yahoo! Labs Technical Report 2009-05, Yahoo! Labs, 2009
- Contract Auctions for Sponsored Search Sharad Goel; Sebastien Lahaie; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2009
- Getting Recommender Systems to Think Outside the Box Zeinab Abbassi; Sihem Amer-Yahia; Laks Lakshmanan; Sergei Vassilvitskii; Cong Yu, RecSys, 2009
- Bidding for Representative Allocations for Display Advertising Arpita Ghosh; Preston McAfee; Kishore Papineni; Sergei Vassilvitskii, WINE, 2009 [view abstract]
- The Hiring Problem and Lake Wobegon Strategies Andrei Broder; Adam Kirsch; Ravi Kumar; Michael Mitzenmacher; Eli Upfal; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2008
- Optimal Envy-free Pricing with Metric Substitutability Ning Chen; Arpita Ghosh; Sergei Vassilvitskii, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08), 2008 [view abstract]
- Relaxation in Text Search using Taxonomies M. Fontoura; V. Josifovski; R. Kumar; C. Olston; A. Tomkins; S. Vassilvitskii, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2008