A Rising Star in the Research Community
At Yahoo Research, we pride ourselves on our scientists’ significant contributions to Yahoo’s platforms and products as well as the external research community. One of our colleagues who exemplifies this balance the most is Senior Research Scientist Bart Thomee. That’s why it came as no surprise to us when he recently received a prestigious award for his efforts in the field of multimedia computing. Bart is the latest recipient of the 2016 Rising Star Award presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM).
Bart sits with the Yahoo/Flickr team in San Francisco. His work centers on researching, designing and developing next-generation content-based multimedia search, browse, discovery and exploration techniques, with a particular focus on devising new geo technologies that are able to exploit the spatiotemporal nature of georeferenced media.
The announcement notes, “The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present this year’s Rising Star Award in multimedia computing, communications and applications to Dr. Bart Thomee for his significant contributions in the areas of geo-multimedia computing, media evaluation and open research datasets.”
The award “recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of multimedia computing, communication and applications during the early part of his or her career.”
We’re very proud of Bart and thank him for all of his hard work.