Narayanan Shivakumar ("Shiva")

Bio for Narayanan Shivakumar ("Shiva")

As a VP Engineering and Distinguished Entrepreneur at Google, Shiva specializes in spinning up new technologies and businesses. 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. He spent summers at Microsoft Corp, Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, between 1993-1997.

Shiva graduated with a BS'94 (Summa Cum Laude) from UCLA in Computer Science, MS'97 from Stanford and PhD'99 in Computer Science from Stanford. For his PhD, he worked on Detecting Digital Copyright Violations on the Web with Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina, and was awarded the 1999 Arthur Samuel Dissertation Award by the Stanford Computer Science Department. His "fun" two minutes of fame came through SCAM (Stanford Copy Analysis Mechanism), an experimental system he built that helped identify widespread academic plagiarism in 1995 ( Communications of the ACM Editorial). At UCLA, he was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award in 1993, and the IBM Outstanding UnderGraduate Award in Computer Science in 1994.