Prabhakar Raghavan, CTO, Google
Strategic Advisory Leader, TCG CREST
Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan is a Strategic Advisory Leader to CREST, Global, UK and India.
Prabhakar is Google’s Chief Technologist. He is the co-author of two widely used textbooks: Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval, as well as numerous scientific papers and patents. He joined Google in 2012 and has led its many consumer products including Search, Maps, Advertising, Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Drive – during this tenure introducing generative AI into many of these products.
Before joining Google, Prabhakar founded and led Yahoo! Labs. He also served as CTO at Verity and was at IBM Research for 14 years. He holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE; a former editor in chief for the Journal of the ACM; and was a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.