Wikipedia's first sentence called it “vice president of research at yahoo”. Today it says “franco-israeli computer scientist”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Vice president of research at Yahoo”. It now reads “Israeli computer scientist”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Yoelle Maarek is a vice president at Amazon , responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research.1Maarek 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 , and completed her doctorate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1989, under the supervision of Daniel M. She worked at IBM from 1989 until 2006, and became a distinguished engineer at IBM before moving to Google . 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. During 2009-2017 she worked in Yahoo research in Israel. From August 2017 she joined Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research. Maarek has served as program committee co-chair for WWW 2009, WSDM 2012 and SIGIR 2012. She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion. 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." Bort, Julie (July 8, 2014), 22 Of The Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World, No. 12: Yahoo, Yoelle Maarek , Business Insider .2
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Yoelle Smadja Maarek is vice president of research at Yahoo , and the head of Yahoo's research labs in Israel and India. 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 , and completed her doctorate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1989, under the supervision of Daniel M. She worked at IBM from 1989 until 2006, and became a distinguished engineer at IBM before moving to Google . 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. She moved to Yahoo in 2009, after Google announced the merger of their centers in Haifa and Tel Aviv . Maarek has served as program committee co-chair for WWW 2009, WSDM 2012 and SIGIR 2012. She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion. 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." Bort, Julie (July 8, 2014), 22 Of The Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World, No. 12: Yahoo, Yoelle Maarek , Business Insider . People of ACM: Yoelle Maarek , Association for Computing Machinery , 2010 Yoelle Maarek at the Mathematics Genealogy Project "Google Haifa center head Maarek leaves for Yahoo!" , Globes , May 5, 2009 .
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Israeli computer scientist Yoelle Maarek is a Tunisian-born Israeli computer scientist.She is the Vice President of Worldwide Research at Amazon , responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research.Maarek is a researcher in the field of search engines and data mining, and a former vice president at 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.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Israeli computer scientist Yoelle Maarek ( Hebrew : יואל מארק ) is a Tunisian-born Israeli computer scientist. She was the Vice President of Worldwide Research at Amazon , responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research. Maarek is a researcher in the field of search engines and data mining, and a former vice president at 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. "UAE-based Technology Innovation Institute to open Israeli AI/IR Research Center headed by Yoelle Maarek" . ctech . 2024-01-08 .
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vice president of research at yahoo
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franco-israeli computer scientist
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