Yoelle Maarek

Chief Researcher AI/IR, Technology Innovation Institute

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

Don't miss this uniqie opportunity, submit an abstract before the deadline tomorrow and you will still have a week to polish your submission!

[The Web Conference @TheWebConf]

🚨 ACM The Web Conference 2026 deadlines are just around the corner! Don’t miss your chance to submit your work!

📅 Research/Industry: Abs Sept 30, Papers Oct 7
📅 Short Papers: Abs Nov 10, Papers Nov 17
📍 Dubai · Apr 13–17, 2026
👉 https://t.co/GaqRp8Tb1Q

#TheWebConf #CFP

[Michal Feldman @MichalFeldman9]

🚨 Don't miss this amazing opportunity!

The Schmidt Postdoc Award supports Israeli women pursuing postdocs abroad in math, CS, IE, or EE.

💰 $60K/year | 🌍 Top global institutions
📅 Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
🔗 https://t.co/AGYF6S6dtf
📝 Apply: https://t.co/thhxoCUahk

[SIGIR 2025 @SIGIRConf]

📣 📣 The #sigir2025 LiveRAG Challenge is open at:

https://t.co/1lgSaMoXTk

Prizes:
- First Prize: $5000
- Second Prize: $3000
- Third Prize: $2000

Deadlines:
- Application submission deadline: February 24, 2025

More info? Ask [email protected].

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

@zschutzy @manish_raghavan @TheWebConf Kudos!!

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

Good luck to all teams and thanks to all the Amazonians involved to facilitate the challenge!

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

Announced today, ten university teams from around the globe have been selected to participate in the #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge 2—competing for the $500,000 prize by addressing one of the hardest problems in conversational AI.

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

@OdedRechavi hilarious!

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge announced its top three university teams—which addresses AI challenges through the fusion of multiple AI techniques. Learn more about the winning work from teams' from @UofGlasgow, @FCTNOVA, and @OhioState. #AlexaPrize

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

🤣 https://t.co/c2KKjyqSqs

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

@TheOfficialACM @isbellHFh @aninddey @jure @duncanjwatts Was surreal and wonderful to reconnect in person with peers, colleagues and friends after such a long period. Thanks ACM for facilitating this!

[Association for Computing Machinery @TheOfficialACM]

Tune in to #75YearsofACM Panel, “Connecting Everyone Everywhere All the Time” as leaders in the field share their experiences, observations & insights! https://t.co/VyuOALl4r6

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

An honor and true pleasure to join such distinguished panelists today at the ACM 75th anniversary

[Association for Computing Machinery @TheOfficialACM]

@TheSavageInMan @UCSanDiego @UnivParisSaclay @zephoria @MSFTResearch @brynosaurus @ETH_en @MarkovMickens @Harvard @k_leyton_brown @UBC @Susan_Athey @Stanford @conitzer @DukeU @UniofOxford @immorlica @m_sendhil @ChicagoBooth @halvarian @Google Join us to learn how Charles Isbell @isbellHFh @GeorgiaTech, @aninddey @UW, @jure Leskovec @Stanford, Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem @amazon, and @duncanjwatts @Penn envision “Connecting Everyone Everywhere All the Time!” https://t.co/VyuOALl4r6

[Wendy Hall @DameWendyDBE]

In Lyons @lmariaux and I formally sign the legal agreement that reconstitutes IW3C2, the organisation that has managed @TheWebConf for 28 years, so we can hand over the management of the conference to @TheOfficialACM #momentinWebhistory

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

@dsivakumar @WittedNote @TheWebConf @ACM Yes there is, as far as i remember it will be uploaded to YouTube, will share when I get the link

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

Thanks again to Prabhakar Raghavan @WittedNote for an outstanding first keynote address yesterday at @TheWebConf - it was a delight and honor to host you and recognize your unique contributions to the conference series in its first @ACM instance.

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

The honor is ours @WittedNote , and having you address this community you helped foster for so many years could not have been at a better time! The year we officially move to ACM. Can't wait to listen to your keynote!

[Prabhakar Raghavan @WittedNote]

It’s an honor to return to @TheWebConf as a keynote speaker! Looking forward to sharing with and learning from #TheWebConf community… I hope you’ll join us.

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

@informor @deborahestrin congrats @deborahestrin !

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

@irlab_amsterdam @UvA_Amsterdam Kudos to both :-)

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

@yuvalpi Wow so proud of you, huge kudos!!!

[Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem]

It was a pleasure and privilege @danpelleg what a ride it was!

[Dan Pelleg @danpelleg]

Well before GDPR, public data dumps from Y!A launched a 1000 research papers. Some of the papers, and some of the data releases, were my team's and mine. And we managed to build+launch several product features
@yuvalpi @alexandernus @elad1 @Yoellem #STGM https://t.co/QDOKDBZQHI

[National Academy of Engineering @theNAEng]

We are delighted to welcome @Yoellem vice president of research @alexa99 @amazon to the NAE as a newly elected member for contributions to online information retrieval and data management, and leadership in applied industrial research.