Gordon Rios

Who is Gordon Rios?

Gordon is a proven leader in search and search-related technologies.

Over the past 10 years he has focused his efforts on devising machine

learning systems for web search, document classification, and text

mining. At Inktomi he developed the scoring engine for a user

click-based ranking application that was deployed at HotBot and Snap,

was a major contributor to the Directory Engine product which

classified millions of web documents into over 10,000 categories, and

was a founding member of Inktomi's Web Search Relevance Group. Moving

to Proofpoint, an enterprise messaging company, he led the development

of the award-winning MLX(tm) technology used in their industry leading

anti-spam product. Most recently Gordon worked at Yahoo! in the

International Relevance team, where he worked on all aspects of search

engine relevance and developed production code running in all major

international markets. Gordon holds an MBA in Finance and a master's

degree in Engineering and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley. His

Erdös number is 4.