Prabhakar Raghavan is a senior vice president at

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, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products. His research spans algorithms, web search and databases and he is the co-author of the textbooks ''Randomized Algorithms'' with

Rajeev Motwani Rajeev Motwani (Hindi: राजीव मोटवानी , March 24, 1962 – June 5, 2009) was an Indian American professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was an early ad ...

and ''Introduction to Information Retrieval''.

Early life and education

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 Presidency College is an art, commerce, and science college in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. On 16 October 1840, this school was established as the Madras Preparatory School before being repurposed as a high school, and then a gra ...

. Prabhakar himself holds a Bachelor of Technology from the

Indian Institute of Technology Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has ...

and a Ph.D. from the

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in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He did his schooling from Campion School, Bhopal.

Career

Prior to joining Google, he worked at

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. Before that, Prabhakar worked at IBM Research and later became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity.

Awards and honors

Prabhakar is a member of the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of ...

and a Fellow of both the

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and the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operat ...

(IEEE). From 2003 to 2009, Prabhakar was the editor-in-chief of

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. In 1986, Prabhakar received the

Machtey Award The Machtey Award is awarded at the annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) to the author(s) of the best student paper(s). A paper qualifies as a student paper if all authors are full-time students at the date of the submiss ...

for Best Student Paper. In 2000, he was named a fellow of the IEEE; received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems; and received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9). In 2002, Prabhakar was named a fellow of the ACM. He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science. In 2008, Prabhakar was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2009, he was awarded a ''Laurea honoris causa'' from the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

. In 2012 he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the

IIT Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has ...

. 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.https://www.iw3c2.org/ToT/PressRelease-3rdToT-20170405.pdf

References

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