Prabhakar Raghavan

Computer Scientist

American Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Quick Info

ProfessionComputer Scientist
NationalityAmerican
BirthplaceChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Date of Birth25/09/1960
Age65 years

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Bio/Wiki

Famous ForChief Technologist at Google; leading Google Search, Ads, Commerce, Geo, and Assistant products

Physical Stats & More

Height182 cm
Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorWhite

Educational Qualification(s)

College/University
  • IIT, Madras
  • UC Berkeley, California
Education
  • BTech from IIT Madras
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley

Personal Life

Marital StatusMarried
Parents
FatherName
MotherAmba Raghavan

Relationships & More

Marital StatusMarried
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Family

FatherName
MotherAmba Raghavan
SpouseName

Career

Awards, Honours, Achievements
  • Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9)
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science (2006)
  • Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Bologna (2009)
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Madras (2012)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Current PositionChief Technologist at Google
Previous Positions
  • Senior Vice President for Knowledge & Information at Google (2020-2024)
  • Head of Search at Google (2020-2024)
  • Vice President of Workspace in Google Cloud
  • Vice President of Google Apps and Google Cloud
  • Head of Ads and Commerce at Google (2018-2020)
  • Founder and Leader of Yahoo! Labs
  • Chief Strategy Officer at Yahoo!
  • Chief Technology Officer at Verity
  • Researcher at IBM Research (14 years)

Some Lesser Known Facts

1. Prabhakar Raghavan is a Senior Vice President at Google overseeing Google Search & Assistant.
2. He is a co-author of two popular graduate books on algorithms and search: Randomized Algorithms (1995) and Introduction to Information Retrieval (2008).
3. Prabhakar has authored over 100 publications spanning various topics and holds 20 issued patents as a Computer Scientist, with several related to link analysis for web search.
4. Prabhakar Raghavan is Chief Technologist at Google, overseeing Search, Ads, Commerce, Geo, Assistant, and Gemini products.
5. He is a co-author of two widely-used graduate texts: Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval.
6. Prabhakar has authored over 100 publications and holds 20 issued patents, including several on link analysis for web search.
7. Under his leadership at Google, AI Overviews were introduced in Search, along with new search modalities like multisearch with Google Lens and Circle to Search.
8. He led the Gmail team that launched Smart Reply and Smart Compose, among the earliest instances of generative AI in consumer products.
9. He grew both Gmail and Drive past 1 billion monthly active users.
10. He is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University.
11. His research team at Stanford co-existed with another researching search engines that included Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who later founded Google.
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