10 Most Powerful Indians in U.S. Tech Firms
#2: Amit Singhal, Google, Senior Vice President: Born In Jhanshi, in the State of Uttar Pradesh, Singhal completed his engineering in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee, MS in Computer Science from University of Minnesota and a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. Amit joined AT&T Labs where he was a senior member of the technical staff. His research interests are in the area of Information retrieval, its application to web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search.
Amit works with the Search Quality team, responsible for Google’s search algorithms, at Google. As per the New York Times, Mr Amit Singhal is the master of what Google call it 'ranking algorithm'-the formulas that decide which web pages best answers the user's question.
#3: Sundar Pichai, Google, Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome and Apps: Sundar Pichai was born in Chennai, TN, India. He got his B.Tech degree from IIT Kharagpur, MS from Standford University and holds an MBA from Wharton School. Before joining Google, he worked as a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company, and held various engineering and product management positions at Applied Materials. He has more than 15 years of experience of developing high-tech consumer and enterprise products. He also served as a Director of Jive Software.
Sundar Pinchai joined Google in 2004 and was involved in product management and leading the innovation team for Google's Chrome and Chrome OS, as the Vice President of Product Management of Google. He was also involved in Google's other search products such as Google Toolbar, Chrome Desktop Search, Gadgets, Google Pack, Google Gears, Firefox extensions, and apps like Gmail, Google maps and Mac Products.
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