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Юрий Лифшиц
Yury Lifshits is a web researcher and entrepreneur.
This is Yury's official website with all papers, projects and teaching materials.
Curriculum Vitae Email: yury@yury.name
Curriculum Vitae Email: yury@yury.name
| 2011– present | Upcoming internet startup in education space. |
| 2008–2011 | Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research. |
| 2007–2008 | CMI postdoc at Caltech. Member of Paradise group and Theory group. |
| 2005–2007 | Graduate studies at Steklov Institute of Mathematics. Advisor: Yuri Matiyasevich. |
| 2000–2005 | Undergraduate studies at St.Petersburg State University |
| 1999, 2000 | Participation in International Mathematical Olympiads. |
| 1996–2000 | Studies at Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239. |
| 1984 | Was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
Recent
- Yahoo! Labs released my project The Like Log Study. I analyze millions of Facebook Likes around online news sites.
- I presented a tutorial at Estonian Summer School on Computer Science 2010.
- RemakeCamp - unconference about the future of journalism and online media I have organized.
- Evolution of Two-Sided Markets, joint paper with Ravi Kumar and Andrew Tomkins, WSDM 2010. We have studied dynamic equations for web marketplaces.
- HackDay Russia, developer events I started in Russia. See my interview on Youtube.
- Combinatorial Algorithms for Nearest Neighbors, Near-Duplicates and Small World Design, joint paper with Shengyu Zhang, SODA 2009. We show how to solve problems without using triangle inequality.