Hugh E. Williams Personal email address:

Work

• I am the Vice President of Buyer Experience Development at eBay. My team builds the search engine, home page, merchandizing, catalogs, and classification systems at eBay
• I was a Partner at Microsoft and a Development Manager in the Bing search engine team from 2005 to 2009
• I was the Associate Professor in Information Retrieval at RMIT University from 1994 to 2004
• I wrote software for my own company from 1990 to 1997
• Download a short resume (in PDF format) or see my profile at LinkedIn
• Follow me on Twitter at hughewilliams

Research

• I've published 99 works, including 3 books, 2 book chapters, 20 journal papers, 2 granted patents, 44 conference papers, and 25 patent applications
• Here is a list of my publications. A partial list is also available at the DBLP
• At RMIT University, I advised twelve PhD graduates, and managed a search engine lab with over $3m in funding
• My areas of expertise are Search Engines, Information Retrieval, and Computational Biology

Exciting Books!

Saied Tahaghoghi and I are the authors of Learning MySQL for O'Reilly Media Inc. The book has its own web site, which includes an FAQ and reviews.

With Dave Lane, I'm also the author of Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition) for O'Reilly Media Inc. The book has its own web site with source code examples, and is available in English, German, and Italian. Here are some reviews.

Random Stuff

• Here's an interview about writing my first book, Web Database Application with PHP and MySQL.
• I'm one of the creators of the zettair open source search engine
• I'm involved in the FSA-BLAST open source BLAST project (a DNA and protein sequence search tool)
• I took a vacation from Microsoft at the end of 2005, and came back to a funny office prank (video, on youtube)
• I had a lot of fun writing an outrageously fake paper with Justin Zobel for the scam SCI conference. And, yes, it was accepted. Read the story here. (The paper is "Paper Three")

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