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Ramanathan V. Guha

Google Fellow; Founder of Schema.org

Ramanathan V. Guha is a Google Fellow currently working on web search and machine intelligence. He was a principal scientist at Apple, and a principal engineer at Netscape, where he created the first version of RSS. He cofounded Epinions, and has been a researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center. Guha joined Google in May of 2005. There, he started Custom Search, Search based keyword tool, SMS Channels. He is the founder of Schema.org, collaboration between the major search engines, which provides a structured markup vocabulary, which is currently used by over 15% of the pages on the web.

Guha graduated with a B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, MS in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University.