Denis Savenkov
PhD student
Intelligent Information Access Lab
Mathematics and Computer science department
Emory University
Email: denis.savenkov at emory dot edu
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DenXX
Office: E500 (5th floor), Emerson Hall
Interests: information retrieval, user behaviour modeling, machine learning
My CV
I am a Ph.D. student in the Intelligent Information Access Lab of Emory University, working with Prof. Eugene Agichtein.
I got my bachelor and masters degree from Tula state university, Russia. After graduation I moved to Moscow and finished Yandex school of Data analysis.
I worked in Yandex for three years focusing on the query-biased document summarization problem (machine learning, quality measures). Currently my research interests include search query difficulty estimation, learning from search log data.
News
- Our team won the Yandex Switch Detection Challenge 2012 (report is available here, feature generation code is here)
Publications
| 2013 | |
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| Touch Screens for Touchy Issues: Analysis of Accessing Sensitive Information from Mobile Devices, D.Pelleg, D.Savenkov and E. Agichtein ICWSM (International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media) 2013 |
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| Detecting Search Engine Switching Based on User Preferences, Search Tasks, and Behavior Patterns, D.Savenkov, D.Lagun and Q. Lui WSDM workshop on Web Search Click Data, 2013 |
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| 2012 | |
| Improving Relevance Prediction by Addressing Biases and Sparsity in Web Search Click Data, Q. Guo, D. Lagun, D. Savenkov, and Q. Liu WSDM workshop on Web Search Click Data, 2012 |
pdf pptx |
| 2011 | |
| Search Snippet Evaluation at Yandex: Lessons Learned and Future Directions, Denis Savenkov, Pavel Braslavski, and Mikhail Lebedev Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, 2011, Springer, pp.14-25 |
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Teaching
Fall 2013
Interests
- Competitive programming: DenXX on TopCoder, DenXX on Codeforces
- Basketball
- Running