Yael Ravin

Yael Ravin received her Ph.D in Linguistics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She also holds an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from Columbia University in New York and a B.A., Cum Laude, from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

Since joining IBM in 1987, Dr. Ravin has worked as a Research Staff Member, at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, in the areas of computational linguistics and knowledge management, specializing in grammar checking, advanced search technologies and text analysis. In 2001-2002, she was on a one-year assignment to IBM Headquarters, as technical staff to the Technology Team. Back at Research, Dr. Ravin headed the IBM’s Institute for Advanced Learning, a research program dedicated to the design and development of technologies for e-learning. In 2005, the mission of the Institute was broadened to include Workforce research. Renamed as the Institute of Learning and Organizational Performance, its mission is to create thought leadership, prototype technology and intellectual property, through technical expertise and world-leading science, and drive IBM’s technical vision for the future of learning and the optimization of workforce. In addition, Dr. Ravin is a second-line manager and the Research Relationship Manager to the Human Capital Management service group as well as to the IBM Education Industry organization.

Dr. Ravin published two books in linguistics as well as numerous technical publications in linguistics and learning. She holds five patents in computational linguistics and four pending patent applications in learning.




Last updated 8 Jun 2006

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