#3 Krishna Bharat

Position: Principal Scientist (Man behind Google News)

Krishna Bharat is a Principal Scientist at Google, working in the area of user interface and algorithmic support for Web search and content analysis (Web Information Retrieval).

Krishna is the creator of Google News which won the 2003 Webby Award in the news category. Google News is a service that automatically indexes over 25,000 news websites in more than 25 languages to provide a summary of the News resources. He received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism. Krishna is the acting head of Google's new R&D Center in Bangalore India.

He graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1996. Before joining Google in 1999, he was a member of the research staff at DEC Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, CA.

Bharat grew up in Bangalore, India. He completed his schooling from St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore, and received an undergraduate degree in computer science from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He subsequently received a Ph.D from Georgia Tech in Human Computer Interaction. Before joining Google in 1999, he worked at the DEC Systems Research Center where, with George Mihaila, he developed the Hilltop algorithm. At Google he developed so-called LocalRank, which can be considered to be an adaptation of Hilltop.

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