Bio
Dr. Evgeniy Gabrilovich is Vice President of Applied Science at Microsoft, where he leads efforts to advance foundation AI models that power collaborative experiences in Microsoft Teams. Prior to that, he was a research director at Meta where he conducted research on neuromotor interfaces and conversational agents. Before Meta, he was a principal research scientist at Google Health where he founded and led the Public & Environmental Health Research team. He led research teams working on health search, internationalization, and machine-learned epidemiology in Google Research. Before that he led the Knowledge Vault project, which focused on automatically mining the Web to discover new facts for the Knowledge Graph, and on estimating the trustworthiness of Web sources.
Evgeniy is an ACM fellow, IEEE fellow, and SIGIR Academy member. He is a recipient of the Karen Sparck Jones Award for his contributions to natural language processing and information retrieval. He is also a recipient of the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize. Evgeniy has served as a program chair for WSDM 2021, WWW 2017, and WSDM 2015. He earned his PhD degree in computer science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Publications
For recent publications, please check my Google Scholar profile. Most of my older publications are available online here (sorted by date or by publication type).
Awards & Honors
- 2025 SIGIR Academy Member
- 2021 ACM Fellow
- 2021 IEEE Fellow
- 2014 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize
- 2010 BCS IRSG Karen Sparck Jones Award
Resources
- Explicit Semantic Analysis (ESA)
- WikiPrep — Perl tool for preprocessing Wikipedia XML dumps
- Bibliography on Automated Text Categorization
- TechTC — Technion Repository of Text Categorization Datasets
- A (pretty dated) collection of resources in text, speech and language processing