Amit Singhal

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Amit Singhal is a Google Fellow. According to the 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. A native of India, Amit got his bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee in 1989. Amit holds an MS in Computer Science from University of Minnesota Duluth, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. At Cornell Amit studied with Gerard Salton, a pioneer in the field of Information Retrieval, the academic discipline which forms the foundation of modern search. John Battelle, in his book "The Search" call Gerrard Salton "the father of digital search."

Amit got interested in the problem of search in 1990 at University of Minnesota. After getting a Ph.D. in search in 1996, Amit joined AT&T Labs (previously a part of Bell Labs), and continued his research in search and other related fields. In 2000, he was persuaded by his friend Krishna Bharat to join Google. Amit runs a team in Google's Search Quality group. He is and his team are responsible for the Google search algorithms.