Nadav Golbandi

About Nadav Golbandi

I am a software engineer at Google. I am working on Search, recommendation, information retrieval and learning to rank. I have been a principle research engineer at Yahoo! Labs Sunnyvale, in the capacity of project technical leader and architect/designer. My recent R&D activities include utterances understanding, search technologies, ranking and blending, ML, Deep learning, time series analysis, recommendation systems, and large data analysis.Before joining Yahoo! Labs I was a member of the search technology group at IBM Haifa Research Lab. I have worked on search engine technologies in the space of enterprise search, multi faceted search and analytic. Specialties: Machine Learning in the space of clustering, ranking, and NLU.Search engine,Ranking,Large scale data analysis,ML at sclae using the Grid and map reduce (Hadoop, map reduce, PIG, Spark, etc.). Ads targeting,Software engineering, design and architecture.Web development. Databases (mysql). Search engine technologies. ML techniques and recommendation. Basic Android development.iOS development in objectiveC.Java, C++, Python, Perl, and other languages.

Experience

1. Principal Research Engineer

   Yahoo

   Jul 2014 — Present

   Senior Research Engineer, Yahoo! Labs - Sunnyvale CAI am working on search technologies, ML in particular in the space of ranking, NLU, deep learning, recommendation, and ads targeting. This also includes large data analysis and building ML solution in scale both for training and serving in scale.

Education

• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  M.Sc., Computer Science

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Web Development
• C++
• Mapreduce
• Machine Learning
• Software Engineering
• Data Analysis
• Java
• Software Development
• Python
• Object Oriented Design
• Recommender Systems
• Algorithms
• Software Design
• Eclipse
• Perl
• Uml
• Architecture
• Computer Science
• Hadoop
• Web Services
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems