Erik Vee - Research Scientist

Research Area: Search Technologies
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

Erik Vee joined Yahoo! Research in September, 2006. Prior to joining, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center in the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies group. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2004. His primary research interests are in algorithm design and analysis, database systems (including probabilistic databases), computational advertising, and complexity theory.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yahoo! Research at SIGMOD/PODS 2008 - The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems was held June 9 to 12 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. The joint conference is universally regarded as the leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users.
  • Yahoo! at VLDB 2008 - Yahoo! walked away with a total of 10 accepted papers, and several Yahoo! researchers served on various program committees.
  • Yahoo! Research at SIGMOD/PODS - Yahoo! Research was well represented at this year’s ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference, held in the bustling city of Beijing, China. The annual conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of the most important regular gatherings in Computer Science.