John Tomlin

Research Area: Search Technologies, Computational Advertising
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

John Tomlin joined Yahoo! Research in September 2005. Prior to this, he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center, in the Services Research and Mathematics departments. His primary interests are in optimization, network algorithms and linear algebra. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and later was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in the Operations Research department at Stanford University. See his Real Web Page for a full bibliography and other information.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • John Tomlin wins 2007 COIN-OR Cup - Congratulations to John Tomlin (Yahoo!), winner of the 3rd Annual COIN-OR Cup. John Tomlin was awarded the Cup at a ceremony held in conjunction with the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. John has been a long-time supporter of open-source and COIN-OR. In the past year, John has used COIN-OR in his collaboration with colleagues on the implementation of two innovative and important projects at Yahoo!
  • Yahoo! Research Earns Highest Number of Accepted Papers at the Eighth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC '07) - Yahoo! Research Earns Highest Number of Accepted Papers at the Eighth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC '07).