Dr. Rakesh Agrawal is a Microsoft Technical Fellow, heading the Search Labs in
Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. He is a Member of the National Academy
of Engineering, a Fellow of ACM, and a Fellow of IEEE. He is the recipient of
the 2010 IIT-Roorkee Distinguished Alumni Award, 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. Scientific American named him to the list of 50 top scientists
and technologists in 2003. Dr. Agrawal has been granted more than 60 patents
and has published more than 150 research papers. He has written the first and
second highest cited papers in the fields of databases and data mining. His
work has been featured in New York Times Year in Review, New York Times
Science section, and several other publications. Before joining Microsoft in
March 2006, he worked as an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
Earlier, he was with the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill from 1983 to 1989. He
also worked for three years at the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. in India. He
received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. He also holds a B.E. degree in Electronics and
Communication Engineering from IIT-Roorkee, and a two-year Post Graduate
Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute of Industrial
Engineering (NITIE), Bombay.