Rajeev Motwani

Rajeev Motwani is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also serves as the director of graduate studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1988. His research has spanned a diverse set of areas in computer science, including databases, data mining, and data privacy, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science.

He has written two books including Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995. Motwani has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award.

He is a Fellow of the ACM and serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and VLDB Journal.

Motwani has been on various industry and advisory boards, including: Adchemy, Anchor Intelligence, Baynote, Coral8, Facebook Fund, Flarion, Gigya, Google, Jaxtr, Kaboodle, Mimosa Systems, Neopath Networks, Rubicon Project, Singularity, Teracent, and Vuclip.