Search Labs
Our mission is to develop new technologies that enhance user experience in Internet search and services. We envision how the future might be and create end-to-end solutions that realizes our vision. Through close collaboration with product teams across Microsoft, we seek to bring our innovations rapidly to products that impact the end users.
Recent Recognitions
- Rakesh Agrawal will be serving as the Awards chair for SIGMOD 2012.
- Ariel Fuxman served as the Publicity co-chair for SIGMOD 2011.
- Rakesh Agrawal received 2010 IIT-Roorkee Distinguished Alumni Award.
- Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Nina Mishra, and Alex Ntoulas's paper titled Releasing Search Queries and Clicks Privately (co-authored with Aleksandra Korolova) was one of six papers nominated for best paper in WWW 2009.
- Anitha Kannan has received the CVPR 2008 best student paper runner-up for her paper titled Epitomic location recognition (co-authored with K. Ni, A. Criminisi and J. Winn).
- Sreenivas Gollapudi has received the PODS 2008 best paper award for his paper titled Estimating PageRank on Graph Streams (coauthored with Atish Das Sarma and Rina Panigrahy).
- Ariel Fuxman has received the SIGMOD 2008 best dissertation award for his thesis titled Efficient Query Processing over Inconsistent Databases.
- Rakesh Agrawal has received the ICDE 2008 influential paper award for his 1995 paper titled Mining Sequential Patterns (coauthored with R. Srikant).
Past recognitions can be found from our research page.
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Recent Publications
- Rakesh Agrawal and Samuel Ieong, Aggregating Web Offers to Determine Product Prices, in ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), ACM, August 2012
- Rakesh Agrawal, Sunandan Chakraborty, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anitha Kannan, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Empowering Authors to Diagnose Comprehension Burden in Textbooks, in ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), ACM, August 2012
- Anand Bhalgat, Sreenivas Gollapudi, and Kamesh Munagala, Mechanisms and Allocations with Positive Network Externalities, in Proc. of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), ACM, June 2012
- Rakesh Agrawal, Michalis Potamias, and Evimaria Terzi, Learning the Nature of Information in Social Networks, in 6th Iternational AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), American Association for Artificial Intelligence , June 2012
- Yi Yang, Simon Baker, Anitha Kannan, and Deva Ramanan, Recognizing Proxemics in Personal Photos, in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , June 2012
- Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, and Or Sheffet, Predicting Consumer Behavior in Commerce Search, in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2012
- Thomas Lin, Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon, Anitha Kannan, and Ariel Fuxman, Active Objects: Actions for Entity-Centric Search, in World Wide Web, ACM, April 2012
- Rakesh Agrawal, Sunandan Chakraborty, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anitha Kannan, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Quality of Textbooks: An Empirical Study, in ACM DEV, ACM, March 2012
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Mountain View, CA 94043
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