Prabhakar Raghavan Age, Wiki and Bio

Prabhakar Raghavan

Quick Info

ProfessionComputer Scientist
NationalityAmerican
BirthplaceChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Date of Birth25/09/1960
Age64 years

Bio/Wiki

ProfessionComputer Scientist
Famous ForBeing the head of Google Search and Assistant

Physical Stats & More

Height182 cm
Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorWhite

Educational Qualification(s)

College/University
  • IIT, Madras
  • UC Berkeley, California
Education
  • BTech from IIT Madras
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley

Personal Life

Marital StatusMarried
Parents
FatherName Not Known
MotherAmba Raghavan

Relationships & More

Marital StatusMarried
Wife/SpouseName Not Known

Family

FatherName Not Known
MotherAmba Raghavan
SpouseName Not Known

Career

Awards, Honours, Achievements
  • Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9)
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science (2006)
  • Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Bologna (2009)
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Madras (2012)

Some Lesser Known Facts

Prabhakar Raghavan is a Senior Vice President at Google overseeing Google Search & Assistant.
He is a co-author of two popular graduate books on algorithms and search: Randomized Algorithms (1995) and Introduction to Information Retrieval (2008).
Prabhakar has authored over 100 publications spanning various topics and holds 20 issued patents as a Computer Scientist, with several related to link analysis for web search.