Narayanan Shivakumar

Who is Narayanan Shivakumar?

As Vice President and Distinguished Entrepreneur, Shiva

specializes in spinning up new technologies and businesses. Since

joining Google in 2001, Shiva and his teams have launched a variety of

products in core ads and search, including AdSense, Google Search

Appliances, Sitemaps and Webmaster Tools. Shiva played a key role in

building Google's engineering centers including Kirkland/Seattle,

Bangalore and Zurich engineering centers. Prior to joining Google, he

co-founded Gigabeat.com, an online music company later acquired by

Napster.

Shiva received a B.S. summa cum laude in Computer Science

Engineering from UCLA. He completed a Masters and PhD in Computer

Science from Stanford University, where he received the 1999 Arthur

Samuel Dissertation Award. Shiva is the author of numerous research

papers and U.S. patents, and serves on program committees for major

conferences on databases, data mining and information retrieval.