Manager of the natural language understanding team in Google Research Zurich. Before that he held different positions in the ads quality and search quality teams working on ads relevance and web search ranking. He is also an instructor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) at Zurich.
His research interests include Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. He has co-authored more than sixty publications and has served as PC committee member and reviewer for some of the most important conferences in these areas, including ACL, NAACL, EACL, SIGIR, WWW and WSDM.