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'''Amit Singhal''' is a [[VP]] at [[Google Inc.]], a Google Fellow, and the head of Google's core ranking team.<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/google_search_g.html Bloomberg Businessweek's interview with Amit Singhal]</ref>. He is widely recognized to be among the top technology leaders in the world. |
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Amit Singhal is a VP at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google's core ranking team.[1]. He is widely recognized to be among the top technology leaders in the world.
Education
Born in Uttar Pradesh, India,[2] Amit received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer science from IIT Roorkee in 1989.[3] He continued his computer science education in the United States, and received an M.S. degree from University of Minnesota Duluth in 1991.[4] He writes about UMD:
"UMD was the turning point in my life. Studying Information Retrieval with Don Crouch and then Don recommending that I move to Cornell to study with Gerard Salton, is the main reason behind my success today. Don gave me the love for search, I have just followed my passion ever since."[4]
— Amit Singhal
Amit continued his studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and received a Ph.D. degree in 1996.[4] At Cornell Amit studied with Gerard Salton, a pioneer in the field of information retrieval, the academic discipline which forms the foundation of modern search. John Battelle, in his book "The Search" calls Gerard Salton "the father of digital search."
Career
Amit got interested in the problem of search in 1990 at University of Minnesota. After getting a Ph.D. in 1996, Amit joined AT&T Labs (previously a part of Bell Labs), where he continued his research in information retrieval, speech retrieval and other related fields.[4]
In 2000, he was persuaded by his friend Krishna Bharat to join Google.[4] Amit runs Google's core search quality department. He is and his team are responsible for the Google search algorithms. According to New York Times, Mr. Singhal is the master of what Google calls its “ranking algorithm” — the formulas that decide which Web pages best answer each user’s question.[5]
As a reward for his rewrite of the search engine in 2001, Amit was named a Google Fellow, a honorary title reserved for Google's most accomplished engineers.[6]
India Abroad magazine named Amit Singhal one of the top 50 most influential Indian Americans.[2]
He has co-authored more than thirty scientific papers and numerous patents.[7]
References
- ^ Bloomberg Businessweek's interview with Amit Singhal
- ^ a b India Abroad: Top 50 Most Influential Indian Americans - Amit Singhal
- ^ University of Minnesota's page with Amit Signhal biography
- ^ a b c d e University of Minnesota's newsletter. Alumni spotlight - Amit Singhal.
- ^ New York Times article by Saul Hansell
- ^ Wired Magazine: Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
- ^ Google Corporate Information - Google Management