Prabhakar Raghavan | |
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Born | [ citation needed ] | September 25, 1960
Alma mater | University of California Berkeley, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Campion School, Bhopal |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Google University of California Berkeley, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Yahoo! Labs Stanford University IBM |
Thesis | Randomized Rounding and Discrete Ham-Sandwich Theorems: Provably Good Algorithms for Routing and Packing Problems (Integer Programming) (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Clark D. Thompson [1] |
Website | research |
Prabhakar Raghavan is a senior vice president at Google, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products. [2] His research spans algorithms, web search and databases. [3] He is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms [4] with Rajeev Motwani [5] and Introduction to Information Retrieval. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Prabhakar holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. [3]
Prabhakar worked at IBM Research in the 1990s. [11] According to a 2011 interview with The Guardian , Raghavan taught at Stanford University around the time the Google founders worked there. [12]
Later,[ when? ] he was senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity.[ citation needed ]
Prabhakar ran Yahoo! Labs from 2005 to 2012, working on a variety of projects including search and advertsing. [12] [13] In 2012 Prabhakar joined Google. [14] In 2020 he was Head of Ads at Google and took over the role of Head of Search from Ben Gomes, [15] amid a push to increase advertising revenue from Google Search. [16]
Prabhakar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [17] From 2003 to 2009, Prabhakar was the editor-in-chief of Journal of the ACM . [18]
In 1986, Prabhakar received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper.[ citation needed ] In 2000, he was named a fellow of the IEEE; [19] received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems; [20] and received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9). [21] In 2002, Prabhakar was named a fellow of the ACM. [22] He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science. [23] In 2008, Prabhakar was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering, [24] and in 2009, he was awarded a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna. In 2012, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the IIT Madras. In 2017, Prabhakar and co-authors received the Seoul test of time award for their 2000 paper “Graph Structure in the Web” at the WWW conference. [25]
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Advisor: Clark D. Thompson