Prabhakar Raghavan

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

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

  • Yahoo! Research Opens New Israel Lab - Search expert Dr. Ronny Lempel appointed as lead
  • Yahoo! Research Opens Israel Lab; Search Expert Dr. Ronny Lempel Joins Yahoo! to Lead Research Efforts in Haifa - New lab to solve complex problems at the core of Web search and strengthen global strategy to establish Yahoo! Search as an indispensable starting point for users on the Web
  • Yahoo! Launches New Lab in Bangalore, India - Yahoo! Labs – Bangalore to be at the forefront of discovering new technologies that deliver compelling experiences on the Web. Eminent scientist Dr. Rajeev Rastogi appointed to head the Lab.
  • Prabhakar Raghavan Elected to National Academy of Engineering - The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 65 new members and nine foreign associates, included Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research.
  • Yahoo! Research Leads Technical Program at WSDM 2008 Debut - Yahoo! Research led the technical program at WSDM, authoring one-fifth of the accepted papers and holding several positions on the program committees.