Rajeev Motwani

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Rajeev Motwani (Hindi: ??????????? ; March 26, 1962 - June 5, 2009) is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focuses on theoretical computer science. He is an early adviser and support company including Google and PayPal, and a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was the winner of the GÃÆ'¶del Prize in 2001.

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Education

Rajeev Motwani was born in Jammu and raised in New Delhi. His father was in the Indian Army. He has two brothers. As a child, inspired by figures like Gauss, he wanted to be a mathematician. Motwani goes to St. Columba's School, New Delhi. He completed B.Tech in Computer Science from the Kanpur Institute of Technology of India in 1983 and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 under the supervision of Richard M. Karp.

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Careers

Motwani joined Stanford shortly after U.C. Berkeley. He founded the Mining Data in the Stanford project (MIDAS), an umbrella organization for several groups seeking new and innovative data management concepts. His research included data privacy, web search, robotics, and computational medicine design. He is also one of the originators of Locality-sensitive hashing algorithms.

Motwani is one of the coauthors (with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) from an early paper that influenced the PageRank algorithm. He also co-authored another seminal search paper What You Can Do With A Web In Your Pocket with the same author. PageRank is the basis for Google search techniques (founded by Page and Brin), and Motwani suggests or teaches many Google developers and researchers, including the first employee, Craig Silverstein.

He is the author of two widely used theoretical computer science textbooks: Random Algorithm with Prabhakar Raghavan and Introduction to Automata, Language, and Computational Theory with John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman.

He is a diligent angel investor and helps fund a number of startups to emerge from Stanford. He sits on board including Google, Kaboodle, Mimosa Systems (acquired by Iron Mountain Incorporated), Adchemy, Baynote, Vuclip, NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007), Tapulous and Stanford Student Enterprises. He is active at the Stanford Entrepreneurs Business Association (BASES).

He was the winner of the GÃÆ'¶del Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its application on the hardness of approximation.

He serves on the editorial board of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer Science and Systems, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery of Data, and IEEE Transactions on Data Knowledge and Engineering.

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Death

Motwani was found dead in his swimming pool in his backyard at Atherton on June 5, 2009. The coroner in San Mateo County, Robert Foucrault, decided the death was an accident. Toxicological tests showed that Motwani's blood alcohol content was 0.26 percent. He can not swim, but plans to take lessons, according to his friends.

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Personal life

Motwani, and his wife Asha Jadeja Motwani, have two daughters named Naitri and Anya. After his death, his family donated US $ 1.5 million in 2011, a building named in his honor at IIT Kanpur.

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Awards

• GÃÆ'¶del Prize in 2001
• Okawa Foundation Research Award
• Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship
• The National Young Foundation's Youth Investigator Award
• Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur in 2006
• The Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation
• IBM Faculty Award

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External links

• Math at heart
• Professor Rajeev Motwani in The Telegraph

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