Biography:Ofer Dekel (researcher)

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Ofer Dekel
Ofer Dekel works with the application of machine learning techniques in the development of the Bing search engine.
Ofer Dekel works with the application
of machine learning techniques
in the development of Bing.
Born
Israel
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning, statistical learning theory, online prediction, optimization, web search, and stochastic optimization
InstitutionsMicrosoft Research
University of Washington

Ofer Dekel is a computer science researcher in the Machine Learning Department of Microsoft Research.[1] He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem[2] and is an affiliate faculty at the Computer Science & Engineering department at the University of Washington.[3]

Areas of research

Dekel's research topics include machine learning, online prediction, statistical learning theory, and stochastic optimization.[3] He is currently engaged in the application of machine learning techniques in the development of the Bing search engine.[2]

Bibliography

h-index

(As of September 2013), Ofer Dekel has an h-index of approximately 18,[4][5] above the mean for computer scientists.[6]

Highly cited publications

Below is a select list of publications in descending order of citations

| first1 = Ofer | last1 = Dekel | first2 = Shai | last2 = Shalev-Shwartz | first3 = Yoram | last3 = Singer | doi = 10.1137/060666998 | volume = 37 | issue = 5 | pages = 1342–1372 | title = The forgetron: A kernel-based perceptron on a budget | year = 2008 | journal = SIAM Journal on Computing | citeseerx = 10.1.1.115.568

| first1 = Ofer | last1 = Dekel | first2 = Joseph | last2 = Keshet | first3 = Yoram | last3 = Singer | chapter = An online algorithm for hierarchical phoneme classification | year = 2005 | title = Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction | publisher = Springer | series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science | volume = 3361 | pages = 146–158 | doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-30568-2_13 | isbn = 978-3-540-30568-2 | oclc = 108716892| citeseerx = 10.1.1.108.8522

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