Bio
Alina Beygelzimer is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs in New York, working on theoretical and applied machine learning. Before joining Yahoo, she was at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where she received the Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award for her work on nearest neighbor search. Alina received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 2003. Her work has has more than 1500 citations.