Gopalan Sivathanu is an accomplished technology professional with extensive experience in engineering and research. From March 2008 to January 2025, Gopalan served as Principal Engineer and Director of Engineering at Google, focusing on LLM-powered capabilities for Google Search, as well as core infrastructure and quality for Google’s Search and Ads platforms. Prior to this, Gopalan worked as a Doctoral Research Assistant at the Research Foundation of SUNY from September 2003 to February 2008 and held various research internships at Google, VMware, and IBM Almaden Research Center. Gopalan holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, with a dissertation centered on End-to-End Abstractions on Application-Aware Storage.
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