Prabhakar Raghavan is a Vice President of Engineering at Google. Prior to joining Google, he worked at IBM, Verity and Yahoo. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE; and was a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University from 1997 to 2014. In 2009, he was awarded a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna. Raghavan is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval. 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.