Prabhakar Raghavan Ph.D. ’86
Senior Vice President, Google
Prabhakar Raghavan is a senior vice president at Google, where he is responsible for Google’s Knowledge & Information products, including Google Search, News, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce and Payments. He is the co-author of two widely-used graduate texts, “Randomized Algorithms” and “Introduction to Information Retrieval”. He has more than 20 years of research experience spanning algorithms, web search, and databases. Prior to joining Google, Raghavan founded and led Yahoo! Labs. He also served as chief technology officer at Verity, and held various positions during 14 years at IBM Research. Raghavan holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley; his honors include membership in the National Academy of Engineering and a Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Bologna.