Highlights
- Prior to being appointed the Head of Search, Prabhakar Raghavan was the Senior Vice President at Google
- Prabhakar holds a PhD from U.C. Berkeley
- He is a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
“Prabhakar will be stepping up to lead Search and Geo, with Ben [Gomes] and Jen [Fitzpatrick]’s senior leads reporting directly into him,” a Google spokesperson confirmed to SBS Hindi.
“To support Prabhakar in these efforts, Jerry [Dischler] will step up to lead the Ads organization.”
“For Prabhakar, this new role brings his experience with search full circle. He’s spent more than two decades obsessing over algorithms and ranking, and his association with Google Search predates … Google.
“He published a foundational text on search and then went on to lead search teams at IBM and Yahoo.
“He joined Google in 2012, and — prior to his current role — worked with teams in Research, Geo, and Google Apps.
“A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Prabhakar is one of the most respected engineering minds in our field. His experience working across so many of our product areas gives him the perfect lens to spot the seams between them,” a Google spokesperson told SBS Hindi.
Search encompasses News, Discover, Podcasts and Google Assistant.
Who is Prabhakar Raghavan?
Prior to being appointed the Head of Search, Prabhakar Raghavan was the Senior Vice President at Google, and oversaw Google’s Advertising and Commerce products, including search, display and video advertising, analytics, shopping, payments, and travel.
Previously, he served as Vice President of Google Apps, Google Cloud, overseeing engineering, products and user experience.
He also played a role in growing both Gmail and Drive and drove it past 1 billion MAUs by introducing a number of machine intelligence features in G Suite, including Smart Reply, Smart Compose, Drive Quick Access.
Prior to joining Google, Prabhakar founded and led Yahoo! Labs and later served as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer.
He also served as CTO at Verity and held various positions over the course of 14 years at IBM.
Prabhakar holds a PhD from U.C. Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
He is the co-author of two widely-used graduate texts on algorithms and on search: Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval; a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
In 2009, he was awarded a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna.
He has served as editor in chief for the Journal of the ACM, has published over 100 papers in various fields and holds 20 issued patents, including several on link analysis for web search.
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