David Carmel
Also known as דוד כרמל
David Carmel is a computer scientist whose information retrieval work runs from IBM Watson to generative AI. After a PhD in computer science at the Technion in 1997, he led the IBM Haifa team that posted the best Precision@10 score at TREC in 2001. The AAAI Feigenbaum Prize honored the IBM Watson team in 2013, and Carmel is among its listed team members. In March 2013 he moved to Yahoo Labs in Haifa, and in November 2017 he joined Amazon Alexa Shopping. He is a distinguished researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute in Haifa, working on retrieval-augmented generation.
Timeline
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1997–2001
Information retrieval at IBM Haifa
He earns a PhD in computer science at the Technion in 1997, and he joins IBM Haifa Research Lab, where he leads the team that achieves the best Precision@10 score at TREC in 2001.
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2005
A SIGIR best paper award
A paper he co-authors on learning to estimate query difficulty wins the Best Paper Award at SIGIR 2005.
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March 2013
A move to Yahoo Labs
He joins Yahoo Labs in Haifa in March 2013, where he devises a new ranking algorithm for Web Mail Search.
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2013
A Feigenbaum Prize for Watson
The AAAI Feigenbaum Prize honors the IBM Watson team in 2013, and David Carmel is among its listed team members.
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November 2017–March 2024
Product search for Alexa
He joins Amazon Alexa Shopping in Israel in November 2017, and he leaves in March 2024 after 6.5 years.
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Since 2024
Generative AI and search at TII
In 2024 he joins the Technology Innovation Institute in Haifa as a distinguished researcher, where he works on retrieval-augmented generation for large language models.
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