Andrew Tomkins is an engineering director at Google working on web
analysis, search, and personalization. His research has focused on
measurement, modeling, and analysis of content, communities, and users
on the World Wide Web. Prior to joining Google, he spent four years at
Yahoo!, leading search research and serving as chief scientist of the
search organization. He also spent eight years at IBM's Almaden
Research Center, where he co-founded the WebFountain project and
served as its chief scientist. He has published over 100 technical
papers and submitted over sixty patents. Andrew received Bachelors
degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from MIT, and a PhD in
Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He recently
co-chaired the program of WWW2008 and KDD2010, and serves on the
editorial board of ACM Transactions on the Web.