Prabhakar Raghavan
Prabhakar Raghavan | |
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 Prabhakar Raghavan receiving a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna, 2009 | |
| Born | September 25, 1960 Pondicherry, India |
| Education | Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras |
| Occupation | Vice President of Engineering at Google |
Prabhakar Raghavan is a Vice President of Engineering at Google. Raghavan is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval and has published over 100 research papers in areas such as algorithms, web search and databases.[1] He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.[2] In 2009, he was awarded a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna. From 2003 to 2009, Raghavan was the editor-in-Chief of Journal of the ACM.[3] He holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[1] and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Prior to joining Google, he was Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President, and Head of Yahoo! Labs. Before that, Raghavan worked at IBM Research[4] and later became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity.
Awards and Honors
In 1986, Raghavan received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper. In 2000, he was named a fellow of the IEEE;[5] received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems;[6] and received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9).[7] In 2002, Raghavan was named a fellow of the ACM.[8] He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science.[9] In 2008, Raghavan was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[10] And In 2009, he was awarded a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna.
References
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- ^ "Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan". Company Info. Yahoo! News Center. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "History". History. Journal of the ACM. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ Farber, Dan. "Yahoo's new search master". Between the Lines Blog. ZDNet. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows: R". IEEE Fellows. IEEE. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "Department of Computer Science 1999-2000 Annual Report". Department of Computer Science 1999-2000 Annual Report. Cornell University. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "2000 IBM Research Computer Science Best Paper Awards". IBM Computer Science. IBM. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "Verity Executive Prabhakar Raghavan Inducted as an ACM Fellow". News & Events. Autonomy.com. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "Distinguished Alumni". Distinguished Alumni. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 65 Members and Nine Foreign Associates". News. National Academies. Retrieved 28 October 2011.