Rajeev Motwani

Rajeev Motwani
Rajeev Motwani in 2006
Born
Rajeev Motwani

(1962-03-24)24 March 1962
Died5 June 2009(2009-06-05) (aged 47)
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationSt. Columba's School, Delhi
Alma materIIT Kanpur (BTech)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
SpouseAsha Jadeja Motwani
AwardsGödel Prize
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical computer science
Data privacy
Web search
Robotics
Computational drug design
ThesisProbabilistic Analysis of Matching and network flow Algorithms (1988)
Doctoral advisorRichard M. Karp[1]
Doctoral students
Websitetheory.stanford.edu/~rajeev

Rajeev Motwani (Hindi: राजीव मोटवानी , 24 March 1962 – 5 June 2009) was an Indian-American professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Rajeev Motwani at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Rajeev Motwani at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Rajeev Motwani author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  4. ^ Raghavan, Prabhakar (2012). "Rajeev Motwani (1962-2009)" (PDF). Theory of Computing. 8: 55–57. doi:10.4086/toc.2012.v008a003.