Bio: Yoelle Maarek is the Director of Google
Haifa Engineering
Center, in Israel, which she opened in July 2006. The center is growing and is contributing to Google
main products. Prior to this, Yoelle had been with IBM Research since
1989. While with IBM Research she held a
series of technical and management appointments first at the T.J.
Watson Research in New York, USA, and then at the IBM Haifa
Research Lab in Israel until Feb 2006. Her two last positions were
Distinguished Engineer and Department Group Manager in the area of
search and collaboration. She graduated from the "Ecole
Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees" in Paris, France, and received her
DEA (graduate degree) in Computer Science from Paris VI University,
both in 1985. She was a visiting PhD student at Columbia University in
NY in 1986/87. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the
Technion, in Haifa, Israel, in 1989. Yoelle's research interests
include information retrieval, Web applications, and collaborative
technologies. She serves on the program committees of several
international
conferences and has published over 50 papers and articles. Recently,
she has served as vice-chair for several technical tracks at the WWW
conference series and as Area Coordinator (senior PC member)
at SIGIR 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. She also chaired and moderated multiple
workshops and panels at both WWW and SIGIR conferences. She will serve
as co-chair for the Panels track at WWW'2008 and has been invited to serve as co-chair of the General Program for WWW'2009.
I live in Haifa by the Mediterranean - and besides some occasional missiles from the North (just kidding:-) life is sweet.
Working at Google, the coolest high-tech company on what I love to do. If you are fun, smart, with analytical and coding skills at the same time (in this order!) Google is hiring at http://www.google.com/jobs/israel