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Yossi Matias

Yossi Matias is an Israeli computer scientist and technology executive who heads Google Research and founded Google's research and development center in Israel.

born 1958Founding Google's Israel centerLeading Google ResearchStreaming algorithms researchGoogle Trends and Autocomplete

Occupation: computer scientist
Education: Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science

Yossi Matias was born in 1958

Yossi Matias was born in 1958. He served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force.

He earned a bachelor's degree from Tel Aviv University in 1985 and a master's degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1987, advised by Adi Shamir. He completed his doctorate at Tel Aviv University in 1992 under Uzi Vishkin.

From 1992 to 1997 he was a researcher at Bell Labs, and in 1997 he joined the computer science faculty at Tel Aviv University. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University from 2004 to 2006. His research covers data streams, algorithms for large data sets, privacy and machine learning.

In 2006 he was appointed to found and lead Google's research and development center in Tel Aviv, and he led products such as Google Trends and Google Autocomplete. He became a Google vice president in 2014 and founded Campus Tel Aviv in 2012. He also led work on AI for health, climate, flood forecasting and conversational tools such as Google Duplex.

In 2024 he moved to Silicon Valley to lead Google Research worldwide.