Yuval Merhav

PhD student, Information Retrieval Lab
Computer Science Department
Illinois Institute of Technology
Phone +1 (773) 396-8252
Email ymerhav@iit.edu

Research Interests:

• Information Retrieval (web and peer-to-peer)
• Text and Data Mining (emphasis on machine learning)
• Information Extraction (especially statistical named entities recognition)

My advisor is Prof. Ophir Frieder. I also work with Prof. David Grossman.

I am currently seeking an internship for summer 2008 (either in academia or industry)

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" -- Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader.
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." -- Orson Welles