Rajeev Motwani was a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also served as the Director of Graduate Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1988. His research has spanned a diverse set of areas in computer science, including databases, data mining, and data privacy, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. Motwani served on various industry boards and advisory boards, including