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Google TV’s Shobana Radhakrishnan wins Hedy Lamarr award for innovation in Entertainment Technology

Friday, 01 Aug, 2025
Shobana Radhakrishnan (Photo courtesy: www.shanthamohan.com)

New York: Shobana Radhakrishnan, Google TV’s Senior Director of Engineering has won the Digital Entertainment Group’s (DEG) 2025 Hedy Lamarr Award for Innovation in Entertainment Technology. 

In its ninth year, the Hedy Lamarr Award recognizes female executives in the fields of entertainment and technology who have made a significant contribution to the industry. Radhakrishnan will be presented DEG’s 2025 Hedy Lamarr Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles in fall, according to a media release. 

Over a career spanning more than two decades, Radhakrishnan has been a technology visionary bringing AI-based innovation to many products. 

As the head of engineering at Google TV, she launched the first AI-driven innovation for TV OS in the history of Google, ushering in a new era of innovation with Gemini and AI on TV and setting a high standard for personalized recommendations for the entire industry with a multiplatform and multimodal vision. 

Prior to Google, Radhakrishnan held various technical leadership roles at Roku, Mindflash Technologies, Yahoo and Netflix.