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Prabhakar Raghavan

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Prabhakar Raghavan is the Chief Technologist at Google.

Last updated Oct 6, 2026 by the ATDb Editorial Team

Role
Chief Technologist
Company
Google
Based
Mountain View, California, United States
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Years in industry
25 years

Bio

Prabhakar Raghavan is the Chief Technologist at Google. At Google, he took charge of Ads and Commerce in 2018, with his scope later expanding to include Search, Geo, and Assistant. Before joining Google, he founded and led Yahoo! Labs, and also served as chief technology officer at Verity, in addition to holding various positions over 14 years at IBM Research. Source 1: berkeley.edu — Prabhakar Raghavan | CDSS at UC Berkeley Source 2: wikipedia.org — Prabhakar Raghavan

Career

  • Chief TechnologistCurrent

    Google

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Expertise & education

Expertise

Search AdvertisingComputational AdvertisingInformation RetrievalMachine Learning for AdsProgrammatic AdvertisingAI-driven Search SystemsPrivacy-Preserving AdvertisingLarge-Scale Data Mining

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

Recognition

Publications

  • Introduction to Information Retrieval (Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schütze)
  • Randomized Algorithms (Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Rajeev Motwani)
  • Numerous peer-reviewed papers on algorithms, information retrieval, and computational advertising
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