Yehuda Koren - Sr. Research Scientist

Research Area: Search Technologies, Machine Learning
Location: Yahoo! Research Israel

Profile

Yehuda Koren joined Yahoo! Research in September 2008. Prior to this, he was a member of AT&T Labs-Research. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Weizmann Institute in 2003. He was awarded best paper awards at INFOVIS 2005, KDD 2009, and at RecSys 2011. Yehuda led the team that won first awards in the Netflix Prize competition, and was part of the team winning the Netflix Grand Prize.
Yehuda serves at senior program committees of conferences like KDD, WSDM, ICDM, RecSys, and CIKM, and on the editorial board of IEEE TKDE and ACM TIST.


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Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yehuda Koren Wins Best Paper at RecSys 2011 - Yahoo! Labs Scientist Yehuda Koren has won the Best Paper Award at the 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011).
  • It’s official…Netflix Prize co-winner hails from Yahoo! - Netflix officially declared Yehuda Koren and his team the grand prize champions.
  • Netflix Awards $1 Million Netflix Prize - Yahoo's Yehuda Koren part of Netflix Prize winning team.
  • Yahoo! at KDD and SIGMOD - It was an exciting week as two major conferences took place concurrently during the week of June 28. The 15th ACM SGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining took place in Paris, while the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference found its base in Providence. Yahoo! walked away the winner of the Best Paper Award at both conferences, in addition to earning a high number of accepted papers.
  • Award-Winning Paper Reveals Key to Netflix Prize - When the organizers of the Netflix Prize contest announced late last week that one team had met the requirement for the $1 million Grand Prize, Yehuda Koren , a member of the seven-person multinational team, was in Paris to present a paper at KDD-09, the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.