Yossi Matias

Yossi Matias

Yossi Matias is an Israeli computer scientist and Google manager.

Matias received his PhD in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University in 1992 with Uzi Vishkin (Highly parallel randomized algorithmics). He was at Bell Laboratories , visiting professor at Stanford University and is a professor at Tel Aviv University.

In 1996 he led the Lucent Personal Web Assistant project. He was the founder and director of a number of software companies (Zapper Technologies 1999, Hyperroll, which was acquired by Oracle).

He was the founder of the Google Research Center in Israel in 2006. There he led the development of various Google products such as Google Trends, Google Suggest, Google Insights for Search and is Senior Director of Google Search. He also initiated, for example, projects to put the collections of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and the Dead Sea Scrolls online. He heads the Google Tel Aviv campus.

In 2005 he received the Gödel Prize with Noga Alon and Mario Szegedy for fundamental contributions to data stream algorithms, and in 2019 the Paris Kanellakis Prize . He also researched search algorithms, data analysis and algorithms for massive amounts of data, parallel algorithms, data compression, information management systems, internet technologies, video processing and data security. He holds over 25 patents. In 2009 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery .

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yossi Matias in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)