Rakesh Agrawal is an IBM Fellow and a Senior Manager, who leads the
Intelligent Information Systems Research at the IBM Almaden Research
Center. His current research interests include privacy and security
technologies for data systems, web technologies, data mining, text
mining, OLAP, and RFID networks. He has pioneered fundamental concepts
in data privacy, including Hippocratic Database, Sovereign Information
Sharing, and Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. He earlier developed key
data mining concepts and technologies. IBM's commercial data mining
product, Intelligent Miner, grew out of this work.

Rakesh Agrawal has published more than 150 research papers and has
been granted more than 55 patents. He is the recipient of the
ACM-SIGKDD First Innovation Award, ACM-SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd
Innovations Award, ACM-SIGMOD Test of Time Award, VLDB 10-Yr Most
Influential Paper Award, and the Computerworld First Horizon Award. He
is also a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of ACM. Scientific American
named him to the list of 50 top scientists and technologists in 2003.