Prabhakar Raghavan
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Prabhakar Raghavan is Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President, and Head of Yahoo! Labs
. Raghavan oversees the growth of the research, applied science and academic relations functions globally at Yahoo! Labs centers in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Raghavan is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval and has published over 100 research papers in areas such as algorithms, web search and databases. He 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); and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
. In 2009, he was awarded a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna. From 2003 to 2009, Raghavan was the editor-in-Chief of Journal of the ACM
.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Raghavan worked at IBM
Research and later became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity
. He holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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, Raghavan was named a fellow of the ACM. He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science. In 2008, Raghavan 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.
Yahoo! Labs
Yahoo! Labs is a division of Yahoo! responsible for research into the science of the Internet and creating the next generation of businesses for Yahoo!...
. Raghavan oversees the growth of the research, applied science and academic relations functions globally at Yahoo! Labs centers in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Raghavan is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval and has published over 100 research papers in areas such as algorithms, web search and databases. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
; a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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(IEEE); and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. In 2009, he was awarded a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna. From 2003 to 2009, Raghavan was the editor-in-Chief of Journal of the ACM
Journal of the ACM
The Journal of the ACM is the flagship scientific journal of the Association for Computing Machinery . It is peer-reviewed and covers computer science in general, especially theoretical aspects. Its current editor-in-chief is Victor Vianu, from University of California, San Diego.The journal has...
.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Raghavan worked at IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
Research and later became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity
Verity
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. He holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Awards and Honors
In 1986, Raghavan received the Machtey AwardMachtey Award
The Machtey Awardis awarded at the annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science to that author of the best student paper. A paper qualifies as a student paper if all authors are full-time students at the date of the submission...
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, Raghavan was named a fellow of the ACM. He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science. In 2008, Raghavan 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.