Amit Singhal

Amit Singhal
Amit Singhal (left) and Matt Cutts (2011)
BornSeptember 1968 (age 56)
Alma materCornell University (PhD, 1996)
University of Minnesota Duluth (MS, 1991)
IIT Roorkee (BS, 1989)
AwardsMember of NAE
ACM Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsInformation retrieval
ThesisTerm weighting revisited (1997)
Doctoral advisorClaire Cardie[1][2]
Gerard Salton[3]
Websitesinghal.info

Amitabh Kumar "Amit" Singhal (born September 1968) is a former senior vice president at Google Inc., having been a Google Fellow and the head of Google's Search team for 15 years.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Alumni by Year". Cornell University. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Abstract/Details". ProQuest. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  3. ^ "acknowledgements in doctoral thesis of Amit Singhal". Cornell University. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Amit Singhal's journey from Jhansi to Google". CNN-IBN. 4 February 2016.
  5. ^ Bloomberg Businessweek's interview with Amit Singhal Archived 17 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Adams, Tim (19 January 2013). "Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 20 January 2013.