Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan is the head of Yahoo! Labs. Raghavan's research interests include text and web mining, and algorithm design. He is a consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University and formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM. He has co-authored two textbooks, on randomized algorithms and on information retrieval. Raghavan received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he was the chief technology officer at Verity and has held a number of technical and managerial positions at IBM Research.

Work Experience

• Senior Vice President and Head of Yahoo! Labs, 2005-present
• Consulting Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University, 1995-present
• Chief Technology Officer, Verity, 2000-2005
• IBM Research, 1986-2000

Education

• PhD, Computer Science, UC Berkeley
• BTech, Electrical Engineering, IIT in Madras

Awards, Honors and Significant Achievements

• Member, National Academy of Engineering
• Fellow, ACM
• Fellow, IEEE
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the ACM
• Over 100 papers in fields including algorithms, optimization, web search, and databases
• Author of textbooks "Randomized Algorithms" (with R. Motwani, Cambridge University Press, 1995) and "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (with C.D. Manning and H. Schuetze, Cambridge University Press, 2008)

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