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Alexander C. Berg is an American Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in web mining as well as machine learning and computer vision.
He obtained his master's and bachelor's degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1994 and then got his PhD at University of California, Berkeley. From 2001 to 2005 he worked as research assistant there and then worked as its postdoc from 2006 to 2007. In February 2007 he became both research scientist and visiting professor at the same place and then became Yahoo! Researcher at Yahoo! where he worked till May 2008. Currently he is at North Carolina at Chapel Hill Universities.
As a Yahoo! Researcher, Berg teamed up with Subhransu Maji and Jitendra Malik of University of California, Berkeley to develop kernelized SVMs. In October 2011 he and colleagues developed two kinds of face recognition software called FaceTracer and PubFig.