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 |
Institutions |
Google University of California Berkeley, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Yahoo! Labs Stanford University IBM |
Alma mater |
University of California Berkeley, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras |
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 Vice President of Engineering at Google. His research spans algorithms, web search and databases [2] and he is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms[3] with Rajeev Motwani[4] and Introduction to Information Retrieval.[5][6][7][8][9]
Education
Raghavan holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[2] and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Career
Prior to joining Google, he worked at Yahoo! Labs. Before that, Raghavan worked at IBM Research[10] and later became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity.
Awards and Honors
Raghavan 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).[11] From 2003 to 2009, Raghavan was the editor-in-chief of Journal of the ACM.[12]
In 1986, Raghavan received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper. In 2000, he was named a fellow of the IEEE;[13] received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems;[14] and received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9).[15] In 2002, Raghavan was named a fellow of the ACM.[16] He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science.[17] In 2008, Raghavan was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[18] 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.
References
- ↑ "Randomized Rounding And Discrete Ham-Sandwich Theorems: Provably Good Algorithms for Routing and Packing Problems". UC Berkeley. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
Advisor: Clark D. Thompson
- 1 2 "Prabhakar Raghavan". Executive Profile. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ↑ Raghavan, Prabhakar; Motwani, Rajeev (1995). Randomized algorithms. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47465-5.
- ↑ Raghavan, Prabhakar (2012). "Rajeev Motwani (1962-2009)" (PDF). Theory of Computing. 8: 55–57. doi:10.4086/toc.2012.v008a003.
- ↑ Schütze, Hinrich; Christopher D. Manning; Raghavan, Prabhakar (2008). Introduction to information retrieval. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-86571-9.
- ↑ Prabhakar Raghavan at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ↑ Broder, A.; Kumar, R.; Maghoul, F.; Raghavan, P.; Rajagopalan, S.; Stata, R.; Tomkins, A.; Wiener, J. (2000). "Graph structure in the Web". Computer Networks. 33: 309. doi:10.1016/S1389-1286(00)00083-9.
- ↑ Prabhakar Raghavan from the ACM Digital Library
- ↑ Prabhakar Raghavan's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
- ↑ Farber, Dan. "Yahoo's new search master". Between the Lines Blog. ZDNet. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ↑ "Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan". Company Info. Yahoo! News Center. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ↑ "History". History. Journal of the ACM. 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.