2006-07 Distinguished Speaker Series

Speaker Biography

KRISHNA BHARAT is a Principal Scientist at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, working in the areas of web and news search. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1996 and, before joining Google in 1999, was a member of the research staff at DEC Systems Research Centre. Krishna is the creator of Google News and, in 2003, he received the World Technology award for Media & Journalism. In 2004 he founded Google's R&D operations in Bangalore and served as the centre's first director for 1.5 years.