I worked on semantic query understanding, and built the Concept Network (an extension of the Probase project at Microsoft).

IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin is a major journal in the domain of data management. It is published quarterly and past issues can be found at http://sites.computer.org/debull/bull_issues.html

I led the query understanding and retrieval team for Amazon Search. Check out my medium article: The Coming Disruption to e-Commerce Search

* I led the NLP (Query Understanding and Document Understanding) effort in Search. Check out two Medium articles: * An Annotated Reading List of Conversational AI * Getting NLP Ready for Business

I had been a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 2000 – 2009, a Technical Assistant to Stuart Feldman (Vice President of Computer Science of IBM Research) from 2006 to 2007, and a Technical Assistant to Mark Wegman (Head of Computer Science of IBM Research) from 2007 to 2009.

* Manager of the Data Management, Analytics and Service group. I initiated and led two projects: * Probase/Concept Graph (a semantic network for text understanding) * Trinity (a distributed graph engine on a memory cloud)

I led Pricing & Revenue Optimization, Marketplace Intelligence, Central Data , and the Applied Science organization. The teams are located in Palo Alto, San Francisco, NYC, Shanghai, and Tel Aviv.