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Résumé of Carlos Castillo, updated June 2009.

Please note that the list of publications is updated more often than this resume.

Short bio: Carlos Castillo is a research scientist at Yahoo! Research, Barcelona. He received his Ph.D from the University of Chile in 2004, and was a visiting scientist at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2005) and Universita di Roma La Sapienza (2006). At age 33 (2010), he is an active researcher with over 30 publications in international conferences and journals in the areas of Web search and mining. He has served in the program committee of most major conferences in his area (WWW, WSDM, SIGIR, CIKM, etc.), and co-organized the Adversarial Information Retrieval Workshop and Web Spam Challenge in 2007 and 2008, and the ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2010. His current research interest is the mining of content, links and usage data from the Web.

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