Prabhakar Raghavan

Research Area: Search Technologies
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

Prabhakar Raghavan is the head of Yahoo! Labs. Raghavan's research interests include text and web mining, and algorithm design. He is a consulting professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM. He has co-authored two textbooks, on randomized algorithms and on information retrieval. Raghavan received his PhD from Berkeley and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he was the chief technology officer at Verity and has held a number of technical and managerial positions at IBM Research.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Ideological Search - In what some may consider the boldest move by a tech research organization, scientists at Yahoo! today released Ideological Search – an innovative new search that allows users to control the ideology of their search results for the first time in search technology history.
  • Yahoo! Inaugurates Hadoop Cluster Lab at IIT Bombay - Open Source Hadoop Cluster and Web data to help IIT Bombay conduct Breakthrough Research on Search Based Technologies
  • Yahoo! looks to improve search experience - When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz announced a $100 million global brand campaign in New York Tuesday as the company launched its new Internet search "experience," research scientists like Preston McAfee, Duncan Watts and David Reiley were not in the spotlight.
  • It’s official…Netflix Prize co-winner hails from Yahoo! - Netflix officially declared Yehuda Koren and his team the grand prize champions.
  • Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at KDD 2009 - Yahoo! has earned 12 out of 142 total accepted papers this year and the Best Paper Award for "Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics" by Yehuda Koren.
  • Yahoo! Partners with Four Top Universities to Advance Cloud Computing Systems and Applications Research - University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst join Carnegie Mellon University to take advantage of Yahoo!’s cloud computing resources
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