Ofer Dekel (researcher)

Ofer Dekel
Ofer Dekel works with the application of machine learning techniques in the development of Bing.
Born	Israel
Fields	Machine learning, statistical learning theory, online prediction, optimization, web search, and stochastic optimization
Institutions	Microsoft Research University of Washington
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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

• Crammer, Koby; Dekel, Ofer; Keshet, Joseph; Shalev-shwartz, Shai; Singer, Yoram (2006). "Online Passive-Aggressive Algorithms". Journal of Machine Learning Research. 7: 551–585. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
• Dekel, Ofer; Manning, Christopher; Singer, Yoram (2003). Log-Linear Models for Label Ranking (PDF). Neural Information Processing Systems. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
• Dekel, Ofer; Keshet, Joseph; Singer, Yoram (2004). Large margin hierarchical classification. International Conference on Machine Learning. doi:10.1145/1015330.1015374. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
• Dekel, Ofer; Shalev-Shwartz, Shai; Singer, Yoram (2008). "The forgetron: A kernel-based perceptron on a budget". SIAM Journal on Computing. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 37 (5): 1342–1372. doi:10.1137/060666998. Retrieved 2013-09-16. (subscription required)
• Dekel, Ofer; Shamir, Ohad (2009). "Vox populi: Collecting high-quality labels from a crowd". PASCAL - Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
• Dekel, Ofer; Fischer, Felix; Procaccia, Ariel D. (December 2010). "Incentive compatible regression learning". Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Elsevier. 76 (8): 759–777. doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2010.03.003. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
• Dekel, Ofer; Keshet, Joseph; Singer, Yoram (2005). "An online algorithm for hierarchical phoneme classification". Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3361. Springer. pp. 146–158. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30568-2_13. ISBN 978-3-540-30568-2. OCLC 108716892. Retrieved 2013-09-16. (subscription required)
• Dekel, Ofer; Shamir, Ohad; Xiao, Lin (November 2010). "Learning to classify with missing and corrupted features". Machine learning. Springer. 81 (2): 149–178. doi:10.1007/s10994-009-5124-8. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
• Dekel, Ofer; Gilad-Bachrach, Ran; Shamir, Ohad; Xiao, Lin (January 2012). "Optimal distributed online prediction using mini-batches". Journal of Machine Learning Research. Association for Computing Machinery. 13 (1): 165–202. Retrieved 2013-09-16.

See also

• Bing
• Jubatus
• Machine learning
• Statistical learning theory
• Stochastic optimization

References

1. Machine Learning Department. "Machine Learning Department". Redmond, WA, USA: Microsoft Research. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
2. "A Tutorial on Modern Learning Theory (course description)". Retrieved 2013-09-13.
3. "Ofer Dekel | Computer Science & Engineering". Seattle, WA: University of Washington. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
4. "Ofer Dekel - computer science researcher". Retrieved 2013-09-20.
5. ":.H-Index.:". Retrieved 2013-09-20.
6. Franceschet, Massimo (2010). "A comparison of bibliometric indicators for computer science scholars and journals on Web of Science and Google Scholar" (PDF). Scientometrics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Science+Business Media. 83 (1): 243–258. ISSN 1588-2861. OCLC 4846912. Retrieved 2013-09-20. For academics with computer science research focus, the average Google Scholar h index is 15.2, while the average h score on Scopus is 7.9 and on Web of Science (cited reference search) is 6.8.

External links

• Dekel, Ofer (August 30, 2011). "Ofer Dekel's Homepage". Redmond, WA, USA: Microsoft Research. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
• "Ofer Dekel's publications hosted at Microsoft Research". Redmond, WA, USA: Microsoft Research. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
• "Ofer Dekel's videos at Microsoft Research". Redmond, WA, USA: Microsoft Research. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
• Dekel, Ofer; Tewari, Ambuj; Arora, Raman. "Online Bandit Learning against an Adaptive Adversary: from Regret to Policy Regret". TechTalks.tv (video with slides). Retrieved 2013-09-20.
• "The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography for Ofer Dekel". Retrieved 2013-09-20.