Edo Liberty is leading the "Scalable Machine Learning" research group at Yahoo Labs in New York, focusing on the theory and practice of (very) large scale data mining and machine learning; in particular, on theoretical foundations of machine learning, optimizations, scalable scientific computing, and machine learning systems and platforms. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Yale University, under the supervision of Steven Zucker. During his PhD he spent time at both UCLA and Google as an engineering intern and a researcher. After that, he joined the Program in Applied Mathematics at Yale as a Post-Doctoral fellow. In 2009 he joined Yahoo Labs. He has published important papers on correlation clustering [1, 4] and given several lectures. He received the best paper award at SODA 2011 and KDD 2013. More information can be found at http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/el327/.