He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Text Mining, Search, and Navigation group at Microsoft Research. Eugene has been working on scalable methods for extracting, discovering, and managing information in large unstructured text collections and the web. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Engineering from The Cooper Union. He has several publications on scalable and efficient information extraction, including the best student paper award at the IEEE ICDE 2003 conference and the best paper award at the SIGMOD 2006 conference. Eugene has been a program committee member of the ICDM, SIGKDD, SIGIR, ACL/COLING, and PKDD conferences.