Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program
– Supporting the academic community is a top priority at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate-student researchers who will have the greatest potential to make significant contributions and become thought leaders in their research fields. This program reflects Yahoo!'s desire to support research in new scientific areas that will deliver next generation Internet technology to their users

Award Recipients 2009

• Pinar Donmez, Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute
  – Machine Learning & Statistics
• Yi Zhang, Ph.D., Machine Learning Department
  – Machine Learning & Statistics
• Jaime Arguello, Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute
  – Search Technologies
• Polo Chau, Ph.D., Machine Learning Department
  – Search Technologies

  SCS Release, Carnegie Mellon Release