Programs
Panel Participant Bios
Andrei Broder
is a Yahoo! Research Fellow and Vice President for Computational
Advertising. Previously he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the
CTO of the Institute for Search and Text Analysis in IBM Research.
From 1999 until early 2002 he was Vice President for Research and Chief
Scientist at the AltaVista Company. Before that he has been a senior
member of the research staff at Compaq's Systems Research Center in
Palo Alto.
He was graduated Summa cum Laude from Technion, the Israeli Institute
of Technology, and obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at
Stanford University under Don Knuth.
Broder is co-winner of the Best Paper award at WWW6 (for his work on
duplicate elimination of web pages) and at WWW9 (for his work on
mapping the web).
He has published more than seventy papers and was awarded twenty
patents. He is an IEEE fellow and served as chair of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing.
Tarek Najm
is a Technical Fellow working in Microsoft's Advertising and Business
Intelligence Systems. Najm�s group is responsible for the vision,
architecture and direction of Microsoft's next generation adCenter
advertising platform.
Tarek has been with Microsoft for 10
years during which he held jobs including: Senior Architect of large
scale systems, Billing Group Manager, Director of Business
Intelligence, Product Unit Manager of adCenter, General manager of all
advertising systems including Display Advertising, Paid Search, Content
Advertising and eMail Advertising platforms. Tarek is also Co-Founder
and Co-Executive Sponsor of Microsoft AdCenter Incubation Labs, and
AdLab.
Tarek holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistical
Analysis. He has over 17 years of experience in Software Engineering
and Systems Architecture Design. He is an expert in the design of
large-scale Transactional Processing systems, Data Modeling,
Distributed Systems, Massive Parallel Processing, and VLDB Data
Warehousing systems
Ashish Goel
is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering
and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University, and a member of
Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He
received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford in 1999, and was an
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern
California from 1999 to 2002. His research interests lie in the design,
analysis, and applications of algorithms. Professor Goel is a recipient of an
Alfred P. Sloan faculty fellowship (2004-06), a Terman faculty fellowship from
Stanford, and an NSF Career Award (2002-07).
Professor Goel is currently also the 3COM faculty development scholar in
Stanford's School of Engineering.
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Submission guidelines
Submissions are accepted through the TROA2008 page at easychair.org
Papers should be no longer than 8 pages, including all references and
figures. Papers should be submitted in WWW2008 proceedings format (two
columns, 9pt font, approximately one-inch margins), which can be found
at:
WWW2008 Proceedings Templates
All papers must be submitted in either Adobe Portable Document Format
(PDF), or Microsoft Word Format (doc). Please ensure that any special
fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be
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