- Raghu Ramakrishnan
Raghu Ramakrishnan is a renowned researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is currently a Vice President and Research Fellow for
Yahoo! Inc. Previously, he was a Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences] at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison .Dr. Ramakrishnan received a bachelor's degree from IIT Madras in 1983, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. He has been selected as a Fellow of the ACM and a Packard fellow, and has done pioneering research in the areas of deductive databases, data mining, exploratory data analysis, data privacy, and web-scale data integration. The focus of his current work (2007) is community-based information management.
With
Johannes Gehrke , Dr. Ramakrishnan authored the popular textbook [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook Database Management Systems] , also known as the "Cow Book".External links
* [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~raghu Raghu's Wisconsin homepage]
* [http://research.yahoo.com/~ramakris Raghu's Yahoo! homepage]
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