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Research Area: Search Technologies, Computational Advertising |
Profile
Yury Lifshits obtained his Master degree from St. Petersburg State University (2005) and PhD degree from Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St.Petersburg (2007). Then he spent a year at Caltech as a postdoc. He won two gold medals at International Mathematical Olympiads, received the Best Paper Award in Application Track of CSR'07 conference and the Yandex Teaching Award (2006) for his course "Algorithms for Internet".
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Evolution of Two-Sided Markets Kumar, R.; Lifshits, Y.; Tomkins, A., WSDM, 2010 [view abstract]
- Combinatorial Algorithms for Nearest Neighbors, Ner-Duplicates and Small World Design Yury Lifshits; Shengyu Zhang, SODA 2009, 2009 [view abstract]
- Conditional Probability Tree Estimation Analysis and Algorithms Alina Beygelzimer; John Langford; Yury Lifshits; Gregory Sorkin; Alex Strehl, UAI, 2009 [view abstract]
- Combinatorial Approach to Similarity Search Yury Lifshits, SISAP, 2009 [view abstract]
- Speeding Up HMM Decoding and Training by Exploiting Sequence Repetitions Yury Lifshits; Shay Mozes; Oren Weimann; Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Algorithmica, 2009 [view abstract]