Long-time executive Nick Fox has been replaced as Google's Chief Technologist by Prabhakar Raghavan. In the past, Raghavan oversaw Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments as a Senior Vice President. He is a prominent person in the organisation and the sector due to his broad experience in technology and leadership positions.
Prabhakar Raghavan graduated with a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was a consulting professor at Stanford University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM. In 2009, the University of Bologna also granted him a Laurea honoris causa.
Prior to joining Google, Raghavan was a Yahoo leader who established and oversaw Yahoo Labs, which focused on search, ad ranking, and marketplace design. In addition, he was the Chief Strategy Officer of the business. He formerly worked as Chief Technology Officer at Verity and as an algorithm, data mining, and machine learning specialist for 14 years at IBM.
When it comes to search and algorithms, Raghavan is regarded as an expert. In addition to publishing more than 100 academic papers, he is a co-author of two popular graduate textbooks, Randomised Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval. Among his 20 patents are inventions in link analysis and web search.
Raghavan's roles at Google include making high-priority contributions, such as bringing AI-powered services like Smart Reply and Smart Compose to market and expanding Gmail and Drive to over a billion monthly active users. He also transformed Google Apps into a corporate offering rather than just a consumer suite. In his previous role, he led the Ads & Commerce teams, shaping growth where he emphasized user trust and equity for users, publishers, and advertisers.