Prabhakar Raghavan is Google’s senior vice president and head of Google Search and Assistant. Prabhakar is responsible for Google’s advertising and commerce products, including search, display and video ads, analytics, shopping, payments, and travel. In addition, he is responsible for the infrastructure team, which provides a lot of the software backbone for search, ads and other departments. Previously, he was vice president of Google Apps, Google Cloud, responsible for engineering, products and user experience. He will report to Google CEO Alphabet Sundar Pichai.
Wiki/Biography
Prabhakar Raghavan was born in 1960 (60 years old in 2019) in Chennai, India. His mother, Amba Raghavan, was a physics teacher at Presidency College in Chennai. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Prabhakar moved to the United States to obtain a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1987, Prabhakar submitted his doctoral thesis titled “Randomized Rounding and the Discrete Ham Sandwich Theorem: Provably Good Algorithms for the Routing and Packing Problem (Integer Programming)”.
appearance
Height (approx.): 6′
Eye color: Black
Hair color: White
Profession
Prior to joining Google, Prabhakar served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Verity. After that, he worked at IBM and held various technical and management positions for 14 years, focusing on algorithms, data mining, and machine learning. In 2005, he joined Yahoo, where he founded and led Yahoo’s Science Research Lab, before moving to Google in 2012.
publication
He is the co-author of two widely used graduate books on algorithms and search; Randomized Algorithms (1995) and Introduction to Information Retrieval (2008), in addition to lecture notes including Algorithms and Computation: The Fourth International Symposium, ISAAC ’93, Hong Kong, December 1993. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM, a scientific journal covering common (primarily theoretical) aspects of computer science. He has published over 100 articles in a variety of fields and has 20 issued patents, including many on link analysis for web search.
Awards and Honors
- Best Paper Award at the 9th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9)
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (2006)
- Honorary Professor of the University of Bologna (Laurea Honoris Causa) (2009)
- Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Distinguished Alumni Award (2012)
Apart from this, he has received many other awards and honours.
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