Yahoo! Inc. is expanding its India R&D operations with the opening of Yahoo! labs – Bangalore. Dr. Rajeev Rastogi has been appointed as vice president and head of the new lab.

Yahoo! Labs – Bangalore will be the center for next generation search and advertising technologies. As a demonstration of Yahoo!’s commitment to recruiting world-class talent in India, Rastogi was appointed to assemble a world-class team of scientists and engineers to focus on new approaches to information extraction and machine learning, multimedia and query processing.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Rastogi was the founding director of Bell Labs India. He was a Bell Labs Fellow and Distinguished Member of its Technical Staff. Currently, he sits on the editorial board of Communications for the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM). Rastogi has published over 125 papers on database systems and information storage and management and holds over 40 patents.

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