 Raghavan's mother, Amba Raghavan, taught physics and maths at St Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal after earning a master's degree from Presidency College, Chennai.Raghavan himself holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science He did his schooling from Campion School, Bhopal.Prior to joining Google, he worked at Yahoo!