Prabhakar Raghavan

I am a Consulting Professor of Computer Science here at Stanford.

I got my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from IIT, Madras, and my PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley.

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Contact

You can email me at acm.org, my userid is an anagram of “graph” comprised of my first initial followed by the first four letters of my last name.

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Research Interests

• Information retrieval and text/web mining
• Combinatorial optimization and randomized algorithms

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Some current activities

• IR book is in its 3^rd printing with some errata fixed.
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley.

• Member, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), National Academy of Sciences.
• Member, Board of Trustees, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.
• Member, board of the IW3C2.

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Archival

Article on graduate education and research in India, in Forbes’ special issue on India at 60.

1999 Scientific American article Hypersearching the Web.

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Books

Randomized Algorithms, Cambridge University Press (with R. Motwani), 1995.

Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press (with C. Manning and H. Schuetze), 2008.

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Here are some of my favorite places to be.

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