This week, Google appointed Prabhakar Raghavan as the company's new Chief Technologist.
Currently, he is Senior VP in charge of Google search, assistant, geo, ads, commerce and payments.
Prabhakar holds PhD from U.C. Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Bachelor of Technology (1982) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Prior to joining Google, Prabhakar founded and led Yahoo labs where he was responsible for search and ad ranking, as well as ad design - later served as company's Chief Strategy Officer. He also served as CTO at Verity and held various positions of 14 years at IBM with a focus on algorithms, data mining and machine learning.
This Indian-origin man is the new CTO of Google, will work closely with CEO Sundar Pichai
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