Biography: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[citation needed] India |
| 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] and 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]
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.[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.
Career
Prior to joining Google, he worked at Yahoo! Labs. Before that, Prabhakar worked at IBM Research[12] 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 and a Fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).[13] From 2003 to 2009, Prabhakar was the editor-in-chief of Journal of the ACM.[14]
In 1986, Prabhakar received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper. In 2000, he was named a fellow of the IEEE;[15] received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems;[16] and received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9).[17] In 2002, Prabhakar was named a fellow of the ACM.[18] He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science.[19] In 2008, Prabhakar was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering,[20] 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.[21]
References
- ↑ "Randomized Rounding And Discrete Ham-Sandwich Theorems: Provably Good Algorithms for Routing and Packing Problems". UC Berkeley. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/5986.html. "Advisor: Clark D. Thompson"
- ↑ "Prabhakar Raghavan – Google Research" (in en). https://research.google/people/PrabhakarRaghavan/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Prabhakar Raghavan". Executive Profile. Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=209109&ticker=YHOO:US&previousCapId=22635&previousTitle=Redpoint%20Ventures.[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ Raghavan, Prabhakar; Motwani, Rajeev (1995). Randomized algorithms. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47465-8.
- ↑ Raghavan, Prabhakar (2012). "Rajeev Motwani (1962-2009)". Theory of Computing 8: 55–57. doi:10.4086/toc.2012.v008a003. http://www.theoryofcomputing.org/articles/v008a003/v008a003.pdf.
- ↑ Schütze, Hinrich; Christopher D. Manning; Raghavan, Prabhakar (2008). Introduction to information retrieval. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86571-5.
- ↑ {{DBLP}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ 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 (1–6): 309–320. doi:10.1016/S1389-1286(00)00083-9.
- ↑ {{ACM Portal}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ Prabhakar Raghavan's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
- ↑ "My "Hidden Figures": Three Octogenarian Indian Women with Particle Physics, Python Programming and Music". Grandma Got STEM. March 15, 2018. https://ggstem.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/my-hidden-figures-three-octogenarian-indian-women-with-particle-physics-python-programming-and-music/.
- ↑ Farber, Dan. "Yahoo's new search master". Between the Lines Blog. ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/yahoos-new-search-master/1674.
- ↑ "Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan". Company Info. Yahoo! News Center. http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/prabhakar-raghavan.aspx.
- ↑ "History". Journal of the ACM. http://jacm.acm.org/history.
- ↑ "IEEE Fellows: R". IEEE Fellows. IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/rfellows.html.
- ↑ "Department of Computer Science 1999-2000 Annual Report". Cornell University. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/annual_report/99-00/Kleinberg.htm.
- ↑ "2000 IBM Research Computer Science Best Paper Awards". IBM Computer Science. IBM. http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/d.compsci.bestpapers2000.html.
- ↑ "Verity Executive Prabhakar Raghavan Inducted as an ACM Fellow". News & Events. Autonomy.com. http://www.autonomy.com/content/News/Releases/2002/0116a.en.html.
- ↑ "Distinguished Alumni". Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/alumni/distinguished.cs.shtml.
- ↑ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 65 Members and Nine Foreign Associates". News. National Academies. http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02082008.
- ↑ https://www.iw3c2.org/ToT/PressRelease-3rdToT-20170405.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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