Raghu Ramakrishnan

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Raghu Ramakrishnan
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yahoo! Research, Microsoft Research
Alma mater	University of Texas, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Raghu Ramakrishnan is a researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft.^{[citation needed]} He has been a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc.,^{[citation needed]} and a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison^{[citation needed]}.

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 work in 2007 was community-based information management.

With Johannes Gehrke, he authored the popular textbook Database Management Systems, also known as the "Cow Book".

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