Ralf Herbrich
SENIOR RESEARCHER
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Mini-Bio
I am a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Since 2008, Thore Graepel and I are heading the Online Services and Advertising group. From 2006 - 2008, both of us were leading the Applied Games group. From 2000 - 2003, I was a Research Fellow of the Darwin College Cambridge. Before that, I worked at the Technical University Berlin as a teaching assistant where I obtained both my diploma degree and Ph.D. degree.
My research focuses around
I am one of the inventors of Drivatars™ in Forza Motorsport and the TrueSkill™ ranking and matchmaking system in Xbox 360 Live.
Latest Publications
- Yoram Bachrach, Ralf Herbrich, and Ely Porat, Sketching Algorithms For Approximating Rank Correlations In Collaborative Filtering Systems, in SPIRE 2009, 2009
- Anton Schwaighofer, Joaquin Quinonero Candela, Thomas Borchert, Thore Graepel, and Ralf Herbrich, Scalable Clustering and Keyword Suggestion for Online Advertisements, in Proceedings of ADKDD 2009: 3rd Annual International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- David Stern, Ralf Herbrich, and Thore Graepel, Matchbox: Large Scale Bayesian Recommendations, in Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference, 2009
- Pierre Dangauthier, Ralf Herbrich, Tom Minka, and Thore Graepel, TrueSkill Through Time: Revisiting the History of Chess, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, MIT Press, 2008
- Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel, and Brendan Murphy, Structure from Failure, in Second Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML07) , USENIX, June 2007



