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's mother, Amba Raghavan, taught physics and math at St Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal and St Patricks High School, Adyar, Chennai after earning a master's degree from Presidency College, Chennai. [11] Prabhakar himself 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] He did his schooling from Campion School, Bhopal.
Prabhakar worked at IBM Research in the 1990s. [12] According to a 2011 interview with The Guardian, Raghavan taught at Stanford University around the time the Google founders worked there. [13]
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. [13] [14] In 2012 Prabhakar joined Google. [15] In 2020 he was Head of Ads at Google and took over the role of Head of Search from Ben Gomes, [16] amid a push to increase advertising revenue from Google Search. [17]
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). [18] From 2003 to 2009, Prabhakar was the editor-in-chief of Journal of the ACM. [19]
In 1986, Prabhakar received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper.[ citation needed] In 2000, he was named a fellow of the IEEE; [20] received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems; [21] and received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9). [22] In 2002, Prabhakar was named a fellow of the ACM. [23] He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science. [24] In 2008, Prabhakar was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering, [25] 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. [26]
Advisor: Clark D. Thompson