Krishna Bharat
Principal Scientist

Krishna Bharat is a Principal Scientist at Google Inc, working in the area of user interface and algorithmic support for Web search and content analysis (Web Information Retrieval). He graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1996. Before joining Google in 1999, he was a member of the research staff at DEC Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, CA.

Krishna has served on the program committees of UIST and the World Wide Web Conference and has been a reviewer for the WWW Conference, UIST, SIGCHI, SIGIR and TOCHI. He has taught tutorials on Web-IR at SIGCHI and SIGIR.

Krishna is the creator of Google News which won the 2003 Webby Award in the news category. Also, he received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism. Krishna is the acting head of Google's new R&D Center in Bangalore India.

Publications:

• Patterns on the Web [PDF]
  In Proceedings of String Processing and Information Retrieval: 10th International Symposium (SPIRE 2003), pages 1-15, ISBN: 3-540-20177-7, Manaus, Brazil, October 2003.
  Krishna Bharat

• When experts agree: using non-affiliated experts to rank popular topics [PDF]
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 20(1): 47-58 (2002)
  Krishna Bharat, George A. Mihaila
  

• Who Links to Whom: Mining Linkage between Web Sites [PDF]
  1st International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 51-58 (2001)
  Krishna Bharat, Bay-Wei Chang, Monika Rauch Henzinger, Matthias Ruhl
  Abstract

• The Term Vector Database: fast access to indexing terms for Web pages [HTML]
  9th International WWW Conference (WWW9) WWW9/Computer Networks 33(1-6): 247-255 (2000)
  Raymie Stata, Krishna Bharat, Farzin Maghoul

• SearchPad: Explicit Capture of Search Context to Support Web Search [HTML]
  9th International WWW Conference (WWW9) WWW9 / Computer Networks 33(1-6): 493-501 (2000)
  Krishna Bharat

• A comparison of Techniques to Find Mirrored Hosts on the WWW [PDF]
  JASIS (Journal of the American Society for Information Science) 51(12):1114:1122 (2000).
  Also presented at 1999 ACM Digital Library Workshop on Organizing Web Space (WOWS), Berkeley, CA, August 1999.
  Krishna Bharat, Andrei Broder, Jeffrey Dean, and Monika R. Henzinger

• Footprint proxy - design and implementation of a framework for reporting web server statistics
  In Paul de Bra and John Leggett, editors, Proceedings of Webnet'99, pages 1167-1172, October 1999.
  Jin Yu and Krishna Bharat
  

• Mirror and mirror and on the Web: A study of host pairs with replicated content [HTML]
  In Proceedings of the 8th International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 1999 (WWW8). Elsevier Science, May 1999.
  Krishna Bharat and Andrei Broder

• Improved algorithms for topic distillation in a hyperlinked environment [PDF]
  In Proc. 21st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 98), pages 104-111, August 1998.
  Krishna Bharat and Monika Henzinger

• A technique for measuring the relative size and overlap of public web search engines [HTML]
  In Proceedings of the 7th International World Wide Web Conference, Brisbane, Australia (WWW7), pages 379-388. Elsevier Science, April 1998.
  Krishna Bharat and Andrei Broder

• The connectivity server: Fast access to linkage information on the Web [HTML]
  In Proceedings of the 7th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW7), pages 469-477, April 1998.
  Krishna Bharat, Andrei Broder, Monika Henzinger, Puneet Kumar, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
  

• SPHINX: a framework for creating personal, site-specific web crawlers [HTML]
  In Proceedings of the 7th International World Wide Web Conference, Brisbane, Australia, pages 119-130. Elsevier Science, April 1998.
  Robert C. Miller and Krishna Bharat

• Personalized, interactive news on the Web [PDF]
  In Multimedia Systems Journal, Springer-Verlag
  Abstract
  Previous work appeared in Kamba et al:
  The Krakatoa Chronicle: An Interactive, Personalized Newspaper on the Web [HTML]
  In Proceedings of the 4th International World Wide Web Conference, Boston, 1994.
  Krishna Bharat, Tomonari Kamba, and Mike Albers

• Supporting cooperative and personal surfing with a desktop assistant [PDF]
  In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology '97 (UIST 97), pages 129-138. ACM, October 1997. Johannes Marais and Krishna Bharat

• Making computers easier for older adults to use: Area cursors and sticky icons [HTML]
  In Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI 1997, March 1997.
  Aileen Worden, Neff Walker, Krishna Bharat, and Scott Hudson

• Pickling state in the Java system [HTML]
  In USENIX Computing Systems, 9(4), pages 291-312, 1996.
  Roger Riggs, Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath, and Krishna Bharat

• Migratory applications [PDF]
  In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology '95, Pittsburgh, PA, pages 133-142. Association for Computing Machinery, November 1995.
  Krishna Bharat and Luca Cardelli

• Supporting Distributed, Concurrent, One-Way Constraints in User Interface Applications [PDF]
  In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology '95, Pittsburgh, PA (UIST 95), pages 121-132. Association for Computing Machinery, November 1995.
  Krishna Bharat and Scott Hudson

• Distributed applications in a hypermedia setting [HTML]
  In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Hypermedia Design, Montpelier, France (IWHD 95), pages 185-192, June 1995.
  Krishna Bharat and Luca Cardelli

• Building distributed, multi-user applications by direct manipulation [HTML]
  In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology '94 (UIST 94), pages 71-81, November 1994.
  Krishna Bharat and Marc Brown

• WEBVIZ: A Tool for World Wide Web Access Log Visualization [PDF]
  In Proceedings of the First International World Wide Web Conference (WWW1), Geneva, Switzerland, May 1994.
  James E. Pitkow and Krishna Bharat