Lukas Biewald

Current

• Founder at Dolores Labs, Inc

Past

• Senior Scientist at Powerset, Inc
• Relevance Engineer, Engineering Manager at Yahoo, Inc
• Research Assistant at Stanford University AI Lab

• Engineer at Enablearning, Inc.

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Education

• Stanford University
• Stanford University

Recommended

7 people have recommended Lukas

Connections

376 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Lukas Biewald’s Summary

Lukas Biewald’s Specialties:

search relevance, machine learning, machine translation, natural language processing

Lukas Biewald’s Experience

• Founder

  Dolores Labs, Inc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2007 — Present (11 months)

• Senior Scientist

  Powerset, Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year)

  Built search engine relevance testing framework and methodology.
  Led team in charge of the search engine ranking, selection and summarization algorithm.

• Relevance Engineer, Engineering Manager

  Yahoo, Inc

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2005 — December 2006 (2 years)

  Worked on statistical machine learning approaches to improve the web search ranking function for international markets, including Japan, Germany, UK, Korea, France, and emerging markets.

• Research Assistant

  Stanford University AI Lab

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2004 — January 2005 (5 months)

  Machine Learning/NLP research. Published paper, Word Sense Disambiguation for Machine Translation (EMNLP '05).

• Engineer

  Enablearning, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1999 — September 2002 (3 years 4 months)

  Built interactive front end for education software company. Designed and built a statistical system from tracking student understanding and evaluation.

Lukas Biewald’s Education

• Stanford University

  MS, Computer Science, 2003 — 2004

  Research assistant in Daphne Koller's group in the Stanford AI Lab. Worked on Word Sense Disambiguation and Machine Translation.

• Stanford University

  BS, Mathematics, 1999 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Go club, Stanford Taiko, columbae

Additional Information

Lukas Biewald’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Lukas Biewald’s Groups:

•    Yahoo Alums
•    Yahoo! alumni
•    Machine Learning Connection

Lukas Biewald’s Honors:

Won Caltech Turing Tournament 2003 (turing.ssel.caltech.edu)

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