NEW DELHI: Google has named Prabhakar Raghavan as its new Chief Technologist. Raghavan was earlier the Senior Vice President at Google and was responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce and Payments products. His position will now be taken over by Nick Fox, announced CEO Sundar Pichai in an internal note on October 17.
The development came days after Google started its core business team restructuring owing to competition and a shift in user behaviour.
Prabhakar Raghavan’s educational qualification
Raghavan earned a BTech in electrical engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1981, followed by MS from the University of California in 1982. Following this, he pursued and earned a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986.
Dr Raghavan is also the recipient of various honours and awards. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. His other honours include an honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna, Italy, the UC Berkeley Distinguished CS Alumnus Award, and being named a Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the ACM.
Before joining Google, Dr Prabhakar founded and led Yahoo! Labs. At Yahoo! Labs, he was responsible for search and ad ranking, as well as ad marketplace design. He later served as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to his time at Yahoo, he served as CTO at Verity and held various positions at IBM for over 14 years, focusing on algorithms, data mining, and machine learning.
It was in 2012 when he started his journey with Google. He led a team in Google Cloud and Google Apps and used to manage in-house products like Gmail and Google Drive.
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