Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, and computational linguistics. Recently, he co-organized a workshop on the synergy between Wikipedia and research in AI at AAAI 2008, as well as co-presented a tutorial on computation advertising at ACL 2008 and EC 2008. He served on the program committees of ACL-08:HLT, AAAI 2008, WWW 2008, CIKM 2008, JCDL 2008, AAAI 2007, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, and COLING-ACL 2006, as well as reviewed papers for the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Information Processing and Management Journal, Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE), and Communications of the ACM. Evgeniy earned his MSc ad PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In his Ph.D. thesis, Evgeniy developed a methodology for using large scale repositories of world knowledge (e.g., all the knowledge available in Wikipedia) in order to enhance text representation beyond the bag of words.