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Research Area: Search Technologies, Machine Learning |
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.
E-mail: FirstName AT yahoo-inc DOT com
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Build Your Own Music Recommender by Modeling Internet Radio Streams Natalie Aizenberg; Yehuda Koren; Oren Somekh, WWW'2012, ACM, 2012 [view abstract]
- Care to Comment? Recommendations for Commenting on News Stories Erez Shmueli; Amit Kagian; Yehuda Koren; Ronny Lempel, WWW'12, ACM, 2012 [view abstract]
- OrdRec: An Ordinal Model for Predicting Personalized Item Rating Distributions Yehuda Koren; Joe Sill, ACM Recommender Systems 2011 (RecSys'11), ACM, 2011 [view abstract]
- Automatically Tagging Email by Leveraging Other Users' Folders Yehuda Koren; Edo Liberty; Yoelle Maarek; Roman Sandler, KDD 2011: 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, ACM, 2011 [view abstract]
- Advances in Collaborative Filtering Yehuda Koren; Robert Bell, Recommender Systems Handbook, 2011 [view abstract]
- Adaptive Bootstrapping of Recommender Systems Using Decision Trees Nadav Golbandi; Yehuda Koren; Ronny Lempel, WSDM'11, 2011 [view abstract]
- On Bootstrapping Recommender Systems Nadav Golbandi; Yehuda Koren; Ronny Lempel, CIKM'10, 2010 [view abstract]
- Performance of Recommender Algorithms on Top-N Recommendation Tasks Paolo Cremonesi; Yehuda Koren; Roberto Turrin, ACM RecSys'10, 2010 [view abstract]
- Recommender Systems for the Conference Paper Assignment Problem Don Conry; Yehuda Koren; Naren Ramakrishnan, ACM RecSys 2009, 2009 [view abstract]
- Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems Yehuda Koren; Robert Bell; Chris Volinsky, IEEE Computer, 2009, 8 [view abstract]
- The Million Dollar Programming Prize Robert Bell; Jim Bennett; Yehuda Koren; Chris Volinsky, IEEE Spectrum, IEEE, 2009 [view abstract]
- Factor in the Neighbors: Scalable and Accurate Collaborative Filtering Yehuda Koren, Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2009 [view abstract]
- Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics Yehuda Koren, KDD 2009, ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
- Extending the Spring-Electrical Model to Overcome Warping Effects Yifan Hu; Yehuda Koren, IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2009, IEEE, 2009 [view abstract]