Quote:
"It's all about our user base!"
To Yahoo is to be alive. I
listen to music,
read the news,
check out the financial market,
make new friends,
share pictures, and my latest
trip anecdotes with them. I like to come back to Yahoo! because I know I can find my friends waiting for me. At Yahoo!, I have a dream job: to make the Yahoo! experience in online communities more focused on users needs.
Favorite Moment(s):
Riding an elevator full of
Yahoo! Answers.
What have you done to be a better Yahoo?
Research to improve our users' experience.
As part of my job at Yahoo! I get to give presentations at database research conferences with hundreds of other researchers from industry and academia and talk about how Yahoo! Research grew to one of the most prestigious research labs in the last two years.
Are you able to think big at Yahoo? How?
Yes. I think about new ways to find useful information in online communities such as Flickr and del.icio.us. This requires me to think about what users would like to see in the near future and five years from now. I think about how to improve their search experience, make it more appealing, personalize it using social connections. That requires to think very big and Yahoo! enables it by giving me all the resources I need to complete my research.
What specific Yahoo! project has made the biggest impact on you and why?
Enabling online communities in social content sites such as
Flickr and
del.icio.us. That's the basis of all my research. My favorite project is Flickr and how users dictate the next service to provide. It contains the
most beautiful pictures ever. It shows how amazing it is to let our users contribute and
share content and how important it is to improve their search and browsing experience.
