Krishna Bharat | |
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| Born | (1970-01-07)7 January 1970 (age 55) Bengaluru, India |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Research scientist atGoogle |
| Children | 3 |
Krishna Bharat (born 7 January 1970) is an Indianresearch scientist atGoogle Inc. He was formerly a founding adviser for Grokstyle Inc. avisual search company and Laserlike Inc., an interest search engine startup based onMachine Learning.[1][2]
At Google,Mountain View, he led a team developingGoogle News, a service that automatically indexes over 25,000 news websites in more than 35 languages to provide a summary of the News resources.[3] He created Google News in the aftermath of theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks to keep himself abreast of the developments.[4][5][6] Since then, it has been a popular offering from Google's services. Google News was one of Google's first endeavors beyond offering just plain text searches on its page.
Among other projects, he opened the Google India'sResearch and Development center atBengaluru,India.[7][8] Bharat is on the Board of Visitors ofColumbia Journalism School andJohn S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford.[9]
Bharat completed his schooling fromSt. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bengaluru, and received an undergraduate degree in computer science from theIndian Institute of Technology, Madras. He subsequently received aPh.D. fromGeorgia Tech inHuman Computer Interaction.[10]
Before joining Google in 1999, he worked at theDEC Systems Research Center where, with George Mihaila, he developed theHilltop algorithm.[11][12]
At Google he developed so-called LocalRank,[13] which can be considered to be an adaptation of Hilltop.
He worked on web search and information extraction atGoogle between 1999 and 2015, and left Google in 2015 to become a founding adviser for Laserlike, a machine learning software startup, which was acquired byApple in 2019.[14][15] Krishna Bharat rejoined Google in July 2019 as a distinguished research scientist.[15]
In 2015, Krishna received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from hisalma materIIT Madras.[16]
He received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.[17][18]
Also, he received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.
