Prabhakar Raghavan

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

Profile

Prabhakar Raghavan is the head of Yahoo! Labs, and 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.

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! 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
  • BOSS Goes to College - Yahoo! Academic Relations group joined forces with the Yahoo! BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) team to kick off BOSS-U, the academic track of the BOSS initiative.
  • Yahoo! at SIGIR 2008 - The 31st Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) brought together a diverse group of over 500 attendees from academia and industry to the exotic island-nation of Singapore. Yahoo! was in the spotlight once again, snapping up three slots on the list of fully accepted papers, and six posters.
  • Cloud Computing Test Bed - Yahoo! has joined forces with HP and Intel to create a global research project that brings cloud computing to the forefront of the technology universe.
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