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Naama Kraus

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Personal Information

Home Address: * ********** ***., *****, *****, Israel

Phone (Home): +972-*-***-****

Phone (Mobile): +972-**-***-****

Date of Birth: 29-APR-1974

Personal Status: Married + 3 children

Education

2009-2012 M.Sc. in Computer Science, Technion IIT

Thesis: Context-Aware Query Suggestion

Advisors: Dr. Ziv Bar-Yossef and Assoc. Prof. Shaul Markovitch

Research Areas: Information Retrieval, Web Search

Final thesis grade: 92/100

GPA: 91.1/100

Thesis link: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/wwwb/cgi-bin/tr-

info.cgi/2012/MSC/MSC-2012-121993-1996 B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University,

Cum Laude

GPA: 90.9/100

Employment

2009-2012Teaching assistant,

Computer Science, Technion IIT

1997-2009Research staff member at IBM Haifa Research Lab

1996-1997 Student position at Telrad, Israel

1/5

Experience

Areas

Information Retrieval

Web Search

Parallel and Distributed Computing

Large Scale Computing

File Systems

Operating Systems

Thread Programming and Concurrency

Web Application Development

Semi-Structured Data

Programming languages

Primary: Java (above 10 years experience)

C, C++, Perl, Matlab

Operating systems

Linux, Windows, UNIX (AIX)

Projects

Knowledge Management in a Problem Determination Platform

I led the team in Haifa, and was responsible for the coordination with

international colleagues. Our team focused on a) search over technical

problem-solution data b) server-side syndication.

Role: project leader

Related areas: Information Retrieval, Web Syndication, Relational

Databases, SQL

Semantic, content-based file system

I participated in a research project on the border of file systems and

search. In this project, we explored a novel approach of semantic file

systems. We tackled a variety of research and engineering challenges

such as performance, security, and user experience. We demonstrated

our technology on a Windows-based file system, as well as IBM's

StorageTank file system.

Role: researcher / developer

2/5

Related areas: Information Retrieval, Semi-Structured data, File Systems,

Security, Web Development

Fault Tolerance of Parallel Applications

I have designed and implemented a parallel fault tolerance functionality

of MPI programs, for the IBM SP supercomputer platform. Challenges

included coping with race conditions and synchronization issues.

Role: researcher / developer

Related areas: Parallel and Distributes Programming, Operating Systems

Large Scale Computing Hadoop/MapReduce

I participated in a research project that explored the Hadoop

Map/Reduce framework, and its potential value in the area of storage.

My role required extensive self learning, interaction with several teams,

and responsibility over one person.

Role: researcher / developer

Related areas: Large Scale Computing, Hadoop Map/Reduce, HBase,

Storage

General Parallel File System (GPFS)

My role was to design and implement the parallel re-stripe functionality

of IBM's GPFS file system.

Role: researcher / developer

Related areas: Parallel and Distributed Programming, File Systems

Customer Profiles and Product Recommendation

I took part in the specification, design and implementation aspects of the

project. I worked on content-based recommendations, user profiles,

REST API specification, and user interface.

Role: researcher / developer

Related areas: Information Retrieval, Recommendation Systems, Web

development

Search Performance and User Interaction Monitoring of Search Engines

My main focus was on the design and implementation of a remote access

infrastructure and API.

Role: researcher / developer

Related areas: Java Servlets, REST API

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Scientific publications

[1] Context-sensitive query auto-completion

Ziv Bar-Yossef and Naama Kraus

In proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference 2011

WWW'11

The 25th ACM SIGIR Conference, XML and Information Retrieval

Workshop 2002

US Patents

[1] Exploration of item consumption by customers

Doron Cohen, Iris Eiron, David Konopnicki, Naama Kraus

June, 2 2011: US 201********

[2] Using Web Feed Information in Information Retrieval

Nadav Golbandi, Naama Kraus

December, 24 2009: US 200********

[3] Search Performance and User Interaction Monitoring of Search Engines

Einat Amitay, Naama Kraus, Ronny Lempel, Yael Petruschka, Aya Soffer

November, 15 2007: US 200********

[4] Content-based file system security

Michael Factor, Benjamin Mandler, Naama Kraus

February, 1 2007: US 200********

[5] Indexing and querying semi-structured documents

David Carmel, Naama Kraus, Benjamin Mandler

July, 1 2004: US 200********

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Teaching Experience

2011-2012 Introduction to Search Engine Technology (cs236621)

Role: Teaching assistant in charge

2009-2011 Introduction to Computer Science, C Programming (cs234112) Role: Teaching

assistant

Awards

[1] Lady Edith Wolfson award for excellent students, 1993

[2] IBM Research Division Award, Parallel Checkpoint Restart, 2006

[3] IBM Research Division Award, Service Delivery Portal, 2008

Talks

[1] Context-Sensitive Query Auto-Completion

Google Israel, March 2011

[2] Context-Sensitive Query Auto-Completion

WWW'11 Hyderabad India, March 2011

[3] Context-Sensitive Query Auto-Completion

IBM Research Haifa, June 2011

[4] Context-Sensitive Query Auto-Completion

Yahoo! Labs Haifa, June 2011

Languages

Hebrew: Mother tongue

English: High skills in reading, writing, hearing, and speaking

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