Pinecone: Founded Pinecone and led it as CEO for over six years - established the vector DB category, used by more than a million engineers, serving thousands of customers, raised over $100M, grew to over a hundred employees. I currently serve as Pinecone's Chief Scientist. I focus on memory for AI and system optimizations.
AWS: Before Pinecone I was a Director of Research at AWS and Head of Amazon AI Labs. The lab created algorithms, models, and systems including parts of SageMaker, OpenSearch, Kinesis, QuickSight, Glue, Rekognition, Personalize, and others.
Yahoo: Prior to that I was a Senior Research Director at Yahoo and Head of Yahoo's Research Lab in New York. We worked on building horizontal machine learning platforms and improving applications such as online advertising, web search, security, media recommendation, email abuse prevention, and many more.
Education: I received my B.Sc in Physics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University. After that, I was a Postdoctoral fellow at Yale in the Program in Applied Mathematics.
Research: My academic research focuses on mathematical foundations and algorithms dealing with large amounts of data. Topics include streaming algorithms, numerical linear algebra, machine learning, fast dimensionality reduction, clustering, and high dimensional data mining. I published 70+ papers with 5,000+ citations including best-paper awards at SODA (2011), KDD (2013), and PODS (2021), plus a 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight.
Teaching: I taught Algorithms in Data Mining at Tel Aviv University and Long Term Memory in AI at Princeton. I give frequent keynotes and tutorials, see my TED Talk.
Ask me anything: Using Pinecone Assistant you can ask any question about my research. You can ask stuff like "What topics does Edo research?" or "Tell me about random projections".