Hugh E. Williams Personal email address:

Career

• Since 2009, I've been the Vice President of Search and Experience Technology at eBay. My team builds the search engine, home page, merchandizing, advertising, catalogs, selling flows, 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
• I've published 102 works, including 3 books, 5 patents, 2 book chapters, 20 journal papers, 44 conference papers, and 26 patent applications
• Here is a list of my publications. A partial list is also available at the DBLP
• Download a short resume (in PDF format) or see my profile at LinkedIn
• Follow me on Twitter at hughewilliams

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.

Dave Lane and I are the authors 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.

Random Stuff

• Here are two blog posts I wrote on measuring eBay's search relevance and improving eBay's site speed
• Here's an interview with eBay about improving eBay's search engine
• 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)

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