Head of Growth Engineering @ Computational Advertising, Search Engines, Large Scale ML From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Technical Lead @ Leading a portfolio of projects that use large scale machine learning and search and information extraction technologies to produce WOW experiences for the users. From March 2012 to February 2015 (3 years) Sr. Director of Advertising (in Yahoo Research) @ Leading a research team in a portfolio of advertising technology projects, including next-generation targeting platform, ad exchange design, and new targeting initiatives. From February 2011 to March 2012 (1 year 2 months) Lecturer, MS&E Department @ Teach Computational Advertising class at Stanford's MS&E Department in the Fall semesters. Some of the content available at during class time at http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande239/ From September 2009 to January 2012 (2 years 5 months) Director of Research @ From 2005 to June 2011 (6 years) Research Staff Member @ From 2000 to 2005 (5 years) Assistant Professor @ From September 1999 to March 2000 (7 months)

Ph.D., Computer Science @ Linköping University From 1996 to 1999 Masters of Science (MS), Computer Science @ University of Florida From 1994 to 1996 Masters of Science (MS), Computer Science @ Univerza v Ljubljani From 1989 to 1994 Vanja Josifovski is skilled in: Computer Science, Hadoop, Computing, Data Warehousing, Search, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, SEM, Advertising