Amitabh Kumar “Amit” Singhal
Amit is senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc.
Introduction :
- Amitabh Kumar Singhal was borned in Born in Jhansi, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India on Sept, 1968.
- He is senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc.
- He is the head of Google’s core ranking team.
Education :
- He completed his Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer science from IIT Roorkee in 1989.
- He then continued his computer science education in the United States, and received an M.S. degree from University of Minnesota Duluth in 1991.
- Amit continued his studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and received a Ph.D. degree in 1996.
Industry Profile :
- As he completed his Ph.D, he joined AT&T Labs , where he continued his research in information retrieval, speech retrieval and other related fields.
- His friend Krishna Bharat persuaded him to join Google in the year 2000.
- At Google he use to work in Google’s core search quality department.
- Google search algorithms are the result of Amit & his team.
- 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.
Awards, Achievements & Recognition :
- 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.
- In 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Fortune named Amit Singhal one of the smartest people in tech.
- In 2011, Amit Singhal was given the Outstanding Achievement in Science and Technology Award at The Asian Awards.
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