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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
Prabhakar Raghavan has been the head of Yahoo! Research since 2005. His 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.
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. Prabhakar received his PhD from Berkeley and is a fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.
Prabhakar participated in an IBM Podcast called
"How Social Collaboration Makes Chatter Lucrative". Check out the podcast here.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Finding near neighbors through cluster pruning. Chierichetti, Flavio ; Panconesi, Alessandro ; Raghavan, Prabhakar ; Sozio, Mauro ; Tiberi, Alessandro ; Upfal, Eli, PODS, 2007
- The Changing Face of Web Search. Raghavan, Prabhakar, MDM, 2006
- 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2006), Nara, Japan, May 9-13, 2006 , Mobile Data Management, IEEE Computer Society, 2006
- Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 10th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2006, Singapore, April 9-12, 2006, Proceedings , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2006
- Visualizing tags over time. Dubinko, Micah ; Kumar, Ravi ; Magnani, Joseph ; Novak, Jasmine ; Raghavan, Prabhakar ; Tomkins, Andrew, WWW, 2006
- Guest Editors' Introduction. Douglis, Fred ; Raghavan, Prabhakar, World Wide Web, 2006
- On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace. Kumar, Ravi ; Novak, Jasmine ; Raghavan, Prabhakar ; Tomkins, Andrew, World Wide Web, 2005
- Geographic Routing in Social Networks Liben-Nowell, D. ; Novak, J. ; Kumar, R. ; Raghavan, P. ; Tomkins, A., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005
- Query Incentive Networks. Raghavan, Prabhakar, ASIAN, 2005
- Advances in Computer Science - ASIAN 2005, Data Management on the Web, 10th Asian Computing Science Conference, Kunming, China, December 7-9, 2005, Proceedings , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2005
- Encoding XML in Vector Spaces. Kakade, Vinay ; Raghavan, Prabhakar, ECIR, 2005
- Advances in Information Retrieval, 27th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, March 21-23, 2005, Proceedings , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2005
- Query Incentive Networks. Kleinberg, Jon M. ; Raghavan, Prabhakar, FOCS, 2005
- 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2005), 23-25 October 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Proceedings , FOCS, IEEE Computer Society, 2005
- Incentive networks. Raghavan, Prabhakar, KDD, 2005
- Variable latent semantic indexing. Dasgupta, Anirban ; Kumar, Ravi ; Raghavan, Prabhakar ; Tomkins, Andrew, KDD, 2005
- Third Latin American Web Congress (LA-Web 2005), 1 October - 2 November 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina , LA-WEB, IEEE Computer Society, 2005
- Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data. Agrawal, Rakesh ; Gehrke, Johannes ; Gunopulos, Dimitrios ; Raghavan, Prabhakar, Data Min. Knowl. Discov., 2005
- Structure and evolution of blogspace. Kumar, Ravi ; Novak, Jasmine ; Raghavan, Prabhakar ; Tomkins, Andrew, Commun. ACM, 2004
- Propagation of Trust and Distrust Kumar, R. ; Novak, J. ; Raghavan, P. ; Tomkins, A., Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2004