| Website | hughwilliams.com |
| @hughewilliams | |
| Birthplace | Australia |
| Birthdate | 8/11/69 |
| RMIT University, PhD | 1997 |
| Computer Science |
Hugh Williams is the Vice President of Buyer Experience Engineering at eBay Inc. He manages the search, home page, merchandizing, catalogs, and verticals development teams.
Hugh has worked on search for nearly 16 years, including 4 years leading a large development team at Microsoft’s Bing and over 10 years researching and developing search technologies.
He has published 100 works on topics related to search, particularly on search data structures and algorithms, computational biology, video search, image search, and text ranking and relevance. His most-cited paper describes and experiments with techniques for compression of inverted lists for text retrieval applications. He holds 2 US patents, and has over 25 patents pending.
Hugh was previously an Associate Professor at RMIT University in Australia, and has written two books for O’Reilly Media Inc. He has a PhD in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Honors) in Computer Science from RMIT University.
