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
- Ariel Fuxman will be serving as 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
- Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, and Li Zhang, Domain Bias in Web Search, in International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), ACM, February 2012
- Anish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Rina Panigrahy, and Li Zhang, Undertanding Cyclic Trends in Social Choices, in Proc. ACM Conf on Web Search and Data Mining, ACM, February 2012
- Marc Najork, Dennis Fetterly, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, and Sreenivas Gollapudi, Of Hammers and Nails: An Empirical Comparison of Three Paradigms for Processing Large Graphs, in 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), ACM, February 2012
- Anitha Kannan, Partha Pratim Talukdar, Nikhil Rasiwasia, and Qifa Ke, Improving Product Classification Using Images, in International Conference on Data Mining, IEEE, December 2011
- Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anitha Kannan, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Enriching Textbooks with Images, in Proc. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM, October 2011
- Sreenivas Gollapudi, Samuel Ieong, Alexandros Ntoulas, and Stelios Paparizos, Efficient Query Rewrite for Structured Web Queries, in ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM, October 2011
- Rakesh Agrawal, Samuel Ieong, and Raja Velu, Timing When to Buy, in ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM, October 2011
- Panayiotis Tsaparas, Alexantros Ntoulas, and Evimaria Terzi, Selecting a Comprehensive Set of Reviews, in International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), ACM, August 2011
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Mountain View, CA 94043
USA
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