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Career

· Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft Research2012–
· Senior Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research2006–
· Research Assistant Professor, TTI-Chicago2003–2006
· Herman Goldstine Fellow, IBM, TJ Watson2002–2003
· Postdoc with Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania2002–2002

Publications (199)

A contextual-bandit approach to personalized news article recommendation
The Web Conference · 2010
3,176
cited
CAPTCHA: Using Hard AI Problems for Security
International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques · 2003
1,682
cited
Approximately Optimal Approximate Reinforcement Learning
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2002
1,229
cited
A Reductions Approach to Fair Classification
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2018
1,215
cited
Feature hashing for large scale multitask learning
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2009
1,062
cited
Telling humans and computers apart automatically
CACM · 2004
970
cited
Cover trees for nearest neighbor
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2006
967
cited
Deep Batch Active Learning by Diverse, Uncertain Gradient Lower Bounds
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2019
910
cited
Doubly Robust Policy Evaluation and Learning
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2011
746
cited
Cost-sensitive learning by cost-proportionate example weighting
Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining · 2003
745
cited
The Epoch-Greedy Algorithm for Multi-armed Bandits with Side Information
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2007
677
cited
Unbiased offline evaluation of contextual-bandit-based news article recommendation algorithms
Web Search and Data Mining · 2010
602
cited
Search-based structured prediction
Machine-mediated learning · 2009
595
cited
Agnostic active learning
Journal of computer and system sciences (Print) · 2006
568
cited
Taming the Monster: A Fast and Simple Algorithm for Contextual Bandits
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2014
540
cited
PAC model-free reinforcement learning
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2006
516
cited
Sparse Online Learning via Truncated Gradient
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2008
494
cited
The Epoch-Greedy algorithm for contextual multi-armed bandits
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2007
464
cited
Scaling up machine learning: parallel and distributed approaches
KDD '11 Tutorials · 2011
448
cited
Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining
Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining · 2017
446
cited
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