Simon Tong

Current

• Senior Research Scientist at Google

Education

• Stanford University
• St John's College, University of Oxford

Connections

64 connections

Industry

Internet

Simon Tong’s Summary

- Core contributor to Google's web search ranking algorithm.
- One of four original designers of AdSense targeting algorithm.
- Co-designer of learning algorithm used in Gmail spam detection.
- Significantly increased user traffic to several Google search properties.
- Google Founders award recipient, twice Google EMG award recipient.

Simon Tong’s Specialties:

Web search. Machine learning. Data mining. Information retrieval. Probabilistic reasoning. Artificial intelligence.

Simon Tong’s Education

• Stanford University

  Ph.D. , Machine Learning, Computer Science , 1997 — 2001

  - Thesis title: "Active Learning: Theory and Applications".
  - Citation count for three most popular papers: 610, 558, 92.
  - First candidate to graduate in class for computer science.

• St John's College, University of Oxford

  B.A. , Mathematics and Computation , 1994 — 1997

  - First class degree.
  - Ranked joint first in year.

Additional Information

Simon Tong’s Honors:

- Oxford University Research & Technology Prize for Computer Science.
- Google Founders Award (highest award for employees): AdSense.
- Google Executive Management Award (2nd highest award): Search Ranking Technology.
- Google Executive Management Award: Search Ranking Technology II.