CURRICULUM VITÆ. Naama Kraus B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Cum Laude GPA: 90.

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1 CURRICULUM VITÆ Naama Kraus Personal Information Home Address: 6 Trumpeldor Ave., Haifa, 32582, Israel Phone (Home): Phone (Mobile): Date of Birth: 29-APR-1974 Personal Status: Married + 3 children Education 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: B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Cum Laude GPA: 90.9/100 Employment Teaching assistant, Computer Science, Technion IIT Research staff member at IBM Haifa Research Lab Student position at Telrad, Israel 1/5

2 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. 2/5

3 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Related areas: Java Servlets, REST API 3/5

4 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 [2] A Service Delivery Platform for Server Management Services K. Christiance, et al. IBM Systems Journal on technology for global delivery of services 2009 [3] Integrating search and browse capabilities into file systems B. Mandler, N. Kraus, A. Azagury, and M. Factor Extended abstract for a technology demonstration, IEEE International Symposium on Mass Storage Systems 2005 [4] Index Infrastructure for an XML Repository A. Azagury, M. Factor, N. Kraus, I. Loy, and B. Mandler 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, 22011: US [2] Using Web Feed Information in Information Retrieval Nadav Golbandi, Naama Kraus December, : US [3] Search Performance and User Interaction Monitoring of Search Engines Einat Amitay, Naama Kraus, Ronny Lempel, Yael Petruschka, Aya Soffer November, : US [4] Content-based file system security Michael Factor, Benjamin Mandler, Naama Kraus February, 12007: US [5] Indexing and querying semi-structured documents David Carmel, Naama Kraus, Benjamin Mandler July, 12004: US /5

5 Teaching Experience Introduction to Search Engine Technology (cs236621) Role: Teaching assistant in charge 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: English: Mother tongue High skills in reading, writing, hearing, and speaking 5/5