Yossi Matias

Yossi Matias is a Senior Engineering Director in Google's Search. He is also the managing director of Google's Israel R&D Center, with overall responsibility for Google research, development, and technology innovation in Israel. Under his leadership, the Israeli center has developed visible and core technologies in the areas of Search, Data Analytics, Gmail, YouTube, and Internet scale infrastructure (some highlights here), as well as pioneered an initiative of bringing online heritage collections such as the Yad Vashem photo archive and the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. Matias joined Google in 2006 to establish the Tel-Aviv R&D Center. Subsequently, he merged the Tel Aviv and Haifa centers into a single strategic Israeli R&D center, which is part of Google's global Engineering organization. He is also the executive lead for Google's university research program across Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and was responsible for technology innovation in YouTube and Data Analytics acros