Yoelle Maarek

Yoelle Maarek
Maarek in 2017
Born (1962-06-01) June 1, 1962 (age 62)
Tunis
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology

Pierre and Marie Curie University

École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Known forInformation Retrieval
AwardsACM Fellow (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsAmazon, Yahoo, Google, IBM
Websiteyoelle.tumblr.com/homepage

Yoelle Maarek is a Tunisian-born Israeli computer scientist. She is the Chief Research of AI/IR for the Technology Innovation Institute.[1] She was the Vice President of Worldwide Research at Amazon,[2] responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research.[3][4][5] Maarek is a researcher in the field of search engines and data mining, and a former vice president at Yahoo! (Yahoo! Labs) and Director of Yahoo! in Israel and in India. Maarek was the first engineer of Google Israel and established the first development center in Haifa in 2006.[6]

Biography

Early years

Maarek was born on June 1, 1962, in Tunis. When she was one year old, her family immigrated to France. Her father, Armand was a civil engineer, and her mother Claire volunteered for Zionist organizations in France. Maarek did her undergraduate studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, earned a diplôme d'études approfondies from Pierre and Marie Curie University. After completing her master's course, she began her doctoral studies at the Technion in the field of programming languages. During her doctoral studies, she spent a year as a visiting student at Columbia University in New York, where she was exposed to the field of search engines under the guidance of Prof. Gail Kaiser.[7] After returning to Israel to complete her doctorate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1989, she decided to change her field of research into search engines, under the supervision of Daniel M. Berry.[4][8]

Career

After completing her doctorate, she returned to the United States and began working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State. As part of her role, she led the team that developed the company's first search engine, called "Guru".[9][10] Maarek worked at IBM from 1989 until 2006, and became a distinguished engineer at IBM before moving to Google.[3][4] In 2006, she founded the Google Haifa Engineering Center in Haifa, Israel, where one of her key projects involved autocompletion for Google and YouTube queries.[4] During 2009-2017 she worked in Yahoo research in Israel. From August 2017, she joined Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research and became the company's new Vice President of Worldwide Research.[2]

Maarek has served as program committee co-chair for WWW 2009, WSDM 2012 and SIGIR 2012.[4] She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion.[11] In 2013, Maarek was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to industrial leadership and to information retrieval and web search."[12][11]

Recognitions

  • In 2009 and 2013, she was chosen as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel by the newspaper Globes.[13]
  • In 2013, she was elected as an ACM Fellow.
  • In 2014, she was chosen by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as one of the 66 Israeli women "worth getting to know".[14]
  • In 2014, she was ranked in #12 of the 22 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider.[15]

References

  1. ^ "UAE-based Technology Innovation Institute to open Israeli AI/IR Research Center headed by Yoelle Maarek". ctech. 2024-01-08. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  2. ^ a b Amazon’s New Israeli Offices Are Prefabs Erected on Parking Lot in Days. Calcalist
  3. ^ a b Bort, Julie (July 8, 2014), "22 Of The Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World, No. 12: Yahoo, Yoelle Maarek", Business Insider.
  4. ^ a b c d e People of ACM: Yoelle Maarek, Association for Computing Machinery, 2010
  5. ^ "Yahoo Folds Its Research Unit Into The Rest Of Its Internet Business", Fortune, 2016
  6. ^ Yoelle Marek personal web site
  7. ^ Home Page of Gail Kaiser at Columbia University
  8. ^ Yoelle Maarek at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  9. ^ Abdul Aziz, Maslita and North, Siobhán. Retrieving Software Component using Clone Detection and Program Slicing. The University of Sheffield
  10. ^ IBM Israel’s R&D labs justify their huge prestige. ISRAEL21c
  11. ^ a b "Dr Yoelle Maarek Named ACM Fellow", Focus: E-mag of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, December 12, 2013, retrieved 2015-06-15.
  12. ^ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2015-06-15.
  13. ^ אשת השנה 2013. Globes
  14. ^ 66 נשים ישראליות שכדאי להכיר. Haaretz
  15. ^ 22 Of The Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World. Business Insider

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