Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a senior staff research scientist at Google, where he works on knowledge discovery from the Web. Prior to joining Google in 2012, he was a director of research and head of the natural language processing and information retrieval group at Yahoo! Research. Evgeniy is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and is a recipient of the 2010 Karen Sparck Jones Award for his contributions to natural language processing and information retrieval. Evgeniy serves as a PC co-chair of WSDM 2015, and has served as an area chair or senior program committee member at numerous major conferences, including KDD, SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, CIKM, ICDM, and ICWSM. He has organized a number of workshops and taught multiple tutorials at SIGIR, ACL, WWW, WSDM, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, CIKM, and EC. Evgeniy earned his PhD in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.