Anurag Acharya is an Indian-American engineer known for co-founding Google Scholar,[1] of which he has been described as the "key inventor". As of 2023, Acharya held the title of Distinguished Engineer at Google.[2] He and his Google colleague Alex Verstak co-founded Google Scholar in 2004. Acharya got the idea for the project years earlier when he was an undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and had difficulty quickly accessing scholarly literature.[3][4] He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2016.[5]
Anurag Acharya | |
|---|---|
 Acharya (2010) | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | |
| Known for | Google Scholar |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Software engineering |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Scalability in Production System Programs (1994) |
References
edit- ^ Van Noorden, Richard (2014-11-07). "Google Scholar pioneer on search engine's future". Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.16269. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ Levy, Steven (2014-10-17). "The Gentleman Who Made Scholar". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ Matham, Adarsh (2014-11-15). "Tech Guru Anurag Acharya". New Indian Express. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ Markoff, John (2004-11-18). "Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ "Ajit Jain, Anurag Acharya given Distinguished Alumnus Awards". India Today. 2016-07-31. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
External links
edit- Anurag Acharya publications indexed by Google Scholar
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