I am currently Senior Director of Engineering and R&D at vertical search engine Vast.com.

My research interests involve a wide range of topics in Computer Science and Statistics. My engineering focus is primary in Web Search and Large-Scale Data Processing infrastructures.

:research

  • Randomized Algorithms
  • Modeling of Information Networks
  • Web Information Retrieval
  • Statistical Learning Theory
  • Computational Econometrics

    • :publications

  • Search Result Clustering via Randomized Partitioning of Query-Induced Subgraphs, published in Telfor Journal Vol.1 No.1 (2009) | pdf

    • :professional

  • Program Committee member, First International Workshop on Theory and Practice of MapReduce,(MAPRED'2010)
  • Program Committee member, 3rd IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, (IEEE CloudCom 2011)

    • :projects

  • voidbase - open source queue-based distributed computing framework
  • void:search - online research+engineering art collective
  • software scalability | belgrade - belgrade-based large-scale computing community
  • venturebias - quantitative insights into technology ventures and online media

    • :talks

  • Engineering Challenges in Vertical Search Engines | link
  • The CAP Theorem : Brewer's Conjecture and Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant Web Services | link

    • :links

  • Jelena Bradic - my wife's homepage
  • my random walks - aggregated blog content