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Lexxe Appoints Dr. Yidong Yuan and Dr. Tony Pham to Management Team
Date: Sept. 6th, 2007
Lexxe today appoints Dr. Yidong Yuan and Dr. Tony Pham to its management team. Dr. Yuan will become Lexxe's Chief Technology Officer, while Dr. Tony Pham will take up the position as the Vice President of Search.
Dr. Yidong Yuan has many years of experiences in software development in both industry and academic areas. Most of his experiences were focused on system architecture design, performance evaluation, and developing novel algorithms and data structures for database systems. He has achieved world class research results in database systems with several papers published in world’s top journals.
In 2006, Dr. Yuan joined Lexxe as Manager of Software Engineering Department. In Lexxe, Dr. Yuan is instrumental in designing and developing the very large index database system of Lexxe search engine. Due to the fact that Lexxe search engine is featured with Natural Language Processing techniques, such database system is quite different from those used in the conventional search engines. Therefore, his tasks also include many research projects on Knowledge Management Systems, Natural Language Processing, and data structure for very large databases.
Dr. Yuan received his BSc. and MSc in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong Univerisity. He was awarded Ph.D. in Computer Science by the University of New South Wales.
Dr. Tony Hong Nguyen Pham’s main scientific background is Natural Language Processing. He is an expert in lexical databases, syntactic parsing and statistical approaches to Natural Language Processing. He also has more than 10 years work experience over a number of areas related to computing.
In 2007, Dr. Pham joined Lexxe and has since been involved in the research and development of the key components of Lexxe Search Engine, such as phrase recognition, question parsing, sentence pattern conversion, short answer extraction, web page relevance ranking, etc.
Dr. Pham earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Hanoi University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing from the University of Sydney.
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