Ofer Dekel (researcher)
| Ofer Dekel | |
|---|---|
 | |
| 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. 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
References
- ↑ Machine Learning Department. "Machine Learning Department". Redmond, WA, USA: Microsoft Research. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "A Tutorial on Modern Learning Theory (course description)". Retrieved 2013-09-13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ofer Dekel | Computer Science & Engineering". Seattle, WA: University of Washington. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
- ↑ "Ofer Dekel - computer science researcher". Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ ":.H-Index.:". Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ Franceschet, Massimo (2010). "A comparison of bibliometric indicators for computer science scholars and journals on Web of Science and Google Scholar". 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.