Sushrut Karanjkar

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My name is Sushrut. I hail from Amravati, a historically important city in Maharashtra, India.

I studied at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), India, from 1991-1996, graduating with a BS degree in Computer Science and a MS degree in Mathematics. After a brief stint of about six months with Motorola India, I decided to head to the USA for graduate studies. I researched parallelization techniques for Computational Geometry (Delaunay Mesh Generation) and Data Mining (Hierarchical Clustering), in the CS department at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, before graduating with a MS degree in computer science in 1998.

Sunny California was too hard to resist after a couple of harsh winters in Minnesota and I moved there in May 1998, gainfully employed by Synopsys Inc, where I spent 9 wonderful years, working on cool Electronic Design Automation Problems like Implementation (Synthesis, Placement, Optimization etc.) and Functional Verification (Random stimulus generation, Constraints solver etc.), in various roles ranging from an Individual contributor to an Architect and a Team Lead.

In August 2007, I decided to take on new challenges and moved to Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, where I am still happily contributing. I am a Director of Engineering in Google’s Search Ranking (Search Quality) Team, working on core ranking signals and search algorithms. I head the team responsible for Google's Image Search ranking, which answers billions of queries on a daily basis. Hopefully, my work positively impacts the everyday lives of our users.


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Trivia about name "Sushrut"

An interesting article about Sushrut at wikipedia. Sushrut was a surgeon in ancient India and is known as "Father of Surgery". He authored a detailed book on surgery namely Sushrut Samhita (link)