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Rakesh Agrawal is the
President and Founder of the Data Insights Laboratories, San
Jose. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,
both USA and India, a Fellow of ACM, and a Fellow of IEEE. He
has been both an IBM Fellow and a Microsoft Fellow. He has
also been the Rukmini Visiting Chair Professor at the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, a Visiting Professor
at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Visiting Professor and
an Invitational JSPS Fellow at the Kyoto University, Japan.
ACM SIGKDD awarded him its inaugural Innovations Award and ACM
SIGMOD the Edgar F. Codd Award. He was named to the Scientific
American’s First list of top 50 Scientists. Rakesh has been
granted 80+ patents and published 200+ papers, including the
1st and 2nd highest cited in databases and data mining. Five
of his papers have received “test-of-time” awards. His papers
have received 100,000+ citations. His research formed the
nucleus of IBM Intelligent Miner that led the creation of data
mining as a new software category. Besides Intelligent Miner,
several other commercial products incorporate his work,
including IBM DB2 and WebSphere and Microsoft Bing.
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