Evgeniy Gabrilovich

Evgeniy Gabrilovich
Born
Minsk, Belarus
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Known forIDN homograph attack, explicit semantic analysis
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Linguistics
Information retrieval
InstitutionsGoogle Research
Yahoo! Research

Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a research director at Facebook Reality Labs where he conducts research on neuromotor interfaces. Prior to that, he was a principal scientist and director at Google, specializing in information retrieval, machine learning, and computational linguistics, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),[1] and an ACM Fellow.[2] In 2010, he received the Karen Spärck Jones Award from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group.[3]

Career

In 2002, Gabrilovich published a research paper documenting the possibility of an IDN homograph attack, with fellow researcher Alex Gontmakher. In 2005, Gabrilovich earned his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. In his Ph.D. thesis, he developed a methodology for using large-scale repositories of world knowledge, such as Wikipedia, as a basis for the improvement of text representations.

Publications

  • "Computing Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis", The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 1606–1611, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch, Hyderabad, India, January 2007
  • "Harnessing the Expertise of 70,000 Human Editors: Knowledge-Based Feature Generation for Text Categorization", Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch, Journal of Machine Learning Research 8 (Oct), pp. 2297–2345, 2007
  • "Robust Classification of Rare Queries Using Web Knowledge", The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2007
  • The Homograph Attack Archived 2019-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher, Communications of the ACM, 45(2):128, February 2002

References

  1. ^ Gabrilovich, Evgeniy. "Homepage of Evgeniy Gabrilovich". Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  2. ^ "ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances That Are Driving Innovation". HPCWire. Tabor Communications, Inc. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Evgeniy Gabrilovich Honored with Prestigious Karen Spärck Jones Award". Retrieved 7 August 2012.


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