
Evgeniy Gabrilovich
Research Director @ Facebook, Reality Labs
SHORT BIO
Dr. Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a research director at Facebook Reality Labs where he conducts research on neuromotor interfaces. Prior to that he was a principal research scientist / research director at Google Health where he founded and led the Public & Environmental Health Research team. He also led research teams working on health search, internationalization, and machine-learned epidemiology in Google Research. Before that he led the Knowledge Vault project, which focused on automatically mining the Web to discover new facts for the Knowledge Graph, and on estimating the trustworthiness of Web sources. Evgeniy is an ACM Fellow (2021) and IEEE Fellow (2021). He is a recipient of the 2010 Karen Spärck Jones Award for his contributions to natural language processing and information retrieval. He is also a recipient of the 2014 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize. Evgeniy has served as a program chair for WSDM 2021, WWW 2017, and WSDM 2015. He earned his PhD degree in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.