Raghu Ramakrishnan is a researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is a Technical Fellow at

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. He has been a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc. Ramakrishnan spent 22 years as a professor at the

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. With

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, he authored the popular textbook ''Database Management Systems'', also known as the "Cow Book". Ramakrishnan received a bachelor's degree from

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in 1983, and a Ph.D. from the

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in 1987. He has been selected as an

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(2001) and a Packard fellow, and has done pioneering research in the areas of deductive databases, data mining, exploratory data analysis, data privacy, and

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data integration. The focus of his work in 2007 was community-based information management. Since 2012, Ramakrishnan has been working at

, heading Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) and leading the development of Azure Data Lake.

Bibliography

* Ramakrishnan, R. (1998). Database management systems. Boston, MA: WCB/McGraw-Hill. * Ramakrishnan, R., & Gehrke, J. (2000). Database management systems (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. * Ramakrishnan, R., & Gehrke, J. (2003). Database management systems (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.

References

External links

Raghu's Wisconsin homepageRaghu's Yahoo! homepageDatabase Management Systems Book
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