B Barla Cambazoglu

B. Barla Cambazoglu received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in computer engineering, from the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University in 1997, 2000, and 2006, respectively. After getting his Ph.D. degree, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Bilkent University for a short period of time. In 2006, he joined the Biomedical Informatics Department of the Ohio State University as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2008, he joined Yahoo Labs as a postdoctoral researcher. He...See more

B. Barla Cambazoglu received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in computer engineering, from the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University in 1997, 2000, and 2006, respectively. After getting his Ph.D. degree, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Bilkent University for a short period of time. In 2006, he joined the Biomedical Informatics Department of the Ohio State University as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2008, he joined Yahoo Labs as a postdoctoral researcher. He received research scientist and senior research scientist positions at the same institution, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Between 2013 and 2015, he was a senior manager, heading the web retrieval group in Yahoo Labs Barcelona. His main research interests are distributed information retrieval and web search efficiency. In 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2015, he co-organized the LSDS-IR workshop. He was the proceedings chair for WSDM'09 and the poster and proceedings chairs for ECIR'12. He served as an area chair in SIGIR'13 and SIGIR'14. He regularly serves on the program committees of SIGIR, WWW, and KDD conferences. He has many papers published in prestigious journals including IEEE TPDS, JPDC, JASIST, Inf. Syst., ACM TWEB, and IP&M, as well as papers and tutorials presented at top-tier conferences, such as SIGIR, CIKM, WSDM, WWW, and KDD. See less