Yoelle Maarek Joins Yahoo! Labs
- Posted May 29th, 2009 at 8:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: People
Today we welcome Yoelle Maarek to Yahoo! as Senior Director of Yahoo! Research. She will be leading the Yahoo! Lab in Haifa, Israel along with Ronny Lempel. Their teams help further Yahoo!’s commitment to discovering new technologies that deliver compelling experiences on the Web.
You might know Yoelle as the former engineering director at the Google Haifa Engineering Center, which she founded in 2006. Her team launched features such as Google Suggest, Searching Ads, and Interactive Annotations on YouTube. Prior to Google, Yoelle was with IBM Research, where she held series of technical and management positions, first at T.J. Watson Research in New York, and then at the IBM Haifa Research Lab in Israel. You can go to Yoelle’s website to read all about her impressive research experience in information retrieval, Web applications, and collaborative technologies.
Prabhakar Raghavan
Head of Yahoo! Labs and Yahoo! Search Strategy
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manishma yoelle – and congratulations (to all of yahoo! i suppose ;) – eager to see how many googlers follow suit in israel…
Best of luck to Ms. Yoelle Maarek.
Congrats Yoelle Maarek! She background was awesome. Hopefully she will bring more ‘magic’ inside yahoo! :)
Best wishes for Yoelle on her new endeavor. Found this article by coincidence, while searching (I have to admit via ‘Google’) for some of Yoelle’s and Ronnie’s publications.
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Congrats Yoelle Maarek! She background was awesome.
Nice article. Thanks for this.
Congrats Yoelle Maarek! She background was awesome. Hopefully she will bring more ‘magic’ inside yahoo
Our congratulations to you Yoelle Maarek. You have a lot capability. For me you are wonder woman.
Congrats Yoelle Maarek! Nice Job and keep you the good work.
Congrats Yoelle Maarek! She background was awesome. Hopefully she will bring more ‘magic’ inside yahoo! :)
Congrats Yoelle Maarek! Nice Job and keep you the good work.
Yoelle Maarek is a positive addition to the Yahoo work team, we hope the improvements are noticeable very soon.