Andrei Broder

Andrei Zary Broder
Andrei Broder in 2010
Born (1953-04-12) April 12, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityIsraeli-American
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology (B.Sc.)
Stanford University (PhD)
Known forComputational advertising, algorithms for WWW, shingling, min-hashing, CAPTCHA, web graph analysis
AwardsACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, National Academy of Engineering Member, ACM Paris Kanellakis Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Computational advertising
InstitutionsGoogle, Yahoo!, AltaVista, IBM Research
Thesis Weighted random mappings; properties and applications  (1985)
Doctoral advisorDonald Knuth

Andrei Zary Broder (born April 12, 1953) is a distinguished scientist at Google. Previously, he was a research fellow and vice president of computational advertising for Yahoo!, and before that, the vice president of research for AltaVista. He has also worked for IBM Research as a distinguished engineer and was CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis.