Pierre and Marie Curie University Yoelle Maarek (Hebrew: יואל מארק) is a Tunisian-born Israeli computer scientist.

Her father, Armand was a civil engineer, and her mother Claire volunteered for Zionist organizations in France.

Maarek did her undergraduate studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, earned a diplôme d'études approfondies from Pierre and Marie Curie University.

During her doctoral studies, she spent a year as a visiting student at Columbia University in New York, where she was exposed to the field of search engines under the guidance of Prof. Gail Kaiser.

[11] In 2013, Maarek was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to industrial leadership and to information retrieval and web search.