Udi Manber | |
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אודי מנבר | |
 Udi Manber at the 2005 Where 2.0 Conference | |
| Awards | Presidential Young Investigator Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco National Institutes of Health Yahoo! University of Washington University of Arizona Amazon.com A9.com |
| Thesis | Concurrency Control for Dynamic Data Structures and Fault Tolerance (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard E. Ladner |
Udi Manber (Hebrew:אודי מנבר) is anIsraeli computer scientist. He is one of the authors ofagrep and GLIMPSE. After a career in engineering and management, he worked on medical research.
He earned both hisbachelor's degree in 1975 in mathematics and hismaster's degree in 1978 from theTechnion in Israel. At theUniversity of Washington, he earned another master's degree in 1981 and hisPhD in computer science in 1982.
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He has won a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, 3 best-paperawards, and theUsenix annual Software Tools User Group Award software award in 1999. Together withGene Myers he developed thesuffix array, adata structure for string matching.[1]
He was a professor at theUniversity of Arizona and authored several articles while there, including "Using Induction to Design Algorithms" summarizing his textbook (which remains in print)Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach.[2][3]
He became the chief scientist atYahoo! in 1998.
In 2002, he joinedAmazon.com, where he became "chief algorithms officer" and a vice president. He later was appointedCEO of the Amazonsubsidiary companyA9.com. He filed a patent on behalf of Amazon.[4] In 2004,Google promoted sponsored listings for its own recruiting whenever someone searched for his name on Google's search engine.[5]
In 2006, he was hired by Google as one of their vice presidents of engineering.[6] In December 2007, he announcedKnol, Google's project to create a knowledge repository.[7]
In October 2010, he was responsible for all the search products at Google.[8]
In October 2014, Manber was named the vice president of engineering atYouTube.[9]
In February 2015, Manber announced that he was leaving YouTube for theNational Institutes of Health.[10] He left the role in 2016.
In February 2017, Manber went to work for the Department of Medicine at theUniversity of California, San Francisco and a technical advisor to UCSF's Institute for Computational Health Sciences.[citation needed]
In October 2018, it was reported that Manber was joiningAnthem as itschief AI officer.[11]
