Image by Prabhakar Raghavan: WIRED
Veteran executive Nick Fox has been replaced as Google’s technology chief by Prabhakar Raghavan. In the past, Raghavan oversaw Google Search, Assistant, Geography, Ads, Commerce, and Payments as Senior Vice President. He is a prominent person in the organization and the sector due to his extensive experience in technology and leadership positions.
Prabhakar Raghavan graduated with a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was a consulting professor at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM. In 2009, the University of Bologna also awarded him the Laurea honoris causa.
Prior to joining Google, Raghavan was a Yahoo leader who established and oversaw Yahoo Labs, which focused on search, ad ranking, and marketplace design. In addition, he was the Strategy Director of the business. He previously worked as CTO at Verity and as an algorithm, data mining and machine learning specialist for 14 years at IBM.
When it comes to search and algorithms, Raghavan is considered an expert. In addition to publishing more than 100 academic articles, he is co-author of two popular graduate textbooks, Random Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval. Among his 20 patents are inventions in link analysis and web search.
Raghavan’s roles at Google include making high-priority contributions, such as bringing AI-powered services like Smart Reply and Smart Compose to market and expanding Gmail and Drive to more than 1 billion monthly active users. It also transformed Google Apps into a corporate offering rather than simply a consumer suite. In his previous role, he led the Advertising and Commerce teams, shaping growth, where he emphasized user trust and fairness for users, publishers and advertisers.
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