Andrei Broder, vice president of emerging technology and a research fellow at Yahoo Research, has joined the ranks of the Dean's Advisory Council at the Indiana University School of Informatics
Andrei Broder will join a group of business, community and industry leaders who advise the School on curriculum and programme development, public and private sector funding, research support, long-range planning, student guidance, external relations and institutional advancement.
"Dr Broder has been a pioneer in the field of search information retrieval," says informatics dean Michael Dunn.
"He brings a wealth of expertise that will help forge the future of our School." At Yahoo Research, Broder's work centres on creating the scientific underpinnings of that company's business and the future of the internet.
His research has focused primarily on the design, analysis and implementation of algorithms and supporting data structures, particularly in the context of web-scale information retrieval and applications.
"I'm looking forward to the opportunity to collaborate with many of my peers to help support the academic community and continue to foster an environment of technological innovation," says Broder.
"I greatly anticipate working with the advisory council on the continued growth and development of the School of Informatics." Broder earned a solid reputation in his field before coming toYahoo in November 2005.
He was a distinguished engineer and the chief technical officer of the Institute for Search and Text Analysis at IBM Research.
Broder also served as vice president for research and as chief scientist at AltaVista, and was a senior member of the research staff at Compaq's System Research Center.
After graduating with honours from Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, he went on to earn graduate and doctoral degrees in computer science at Stanford University.
Broder has published more than 70 professional papers and has been awarded 20 patents during his career.
