Yahoo! Appoints Renowned Database Systems Expert Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan as Research Fellow

"Raghu is a world-renowned expert in database systems and datamining with a passion for social search that perfectly aligns withYahoo!'s vision for the future," said Raghavan. "The combination ofRaghu's expertise and Yahoo!'s huge user base and data assets willprovide tremendous insight into new ways to create value for ourusers."

Ramakrishnan joins Yahoo! from the University of Wisconsin-Madisonwhere he served as a professor of computer science and a co-founder ofthe Data Mining Institute. Ramakrishnan will apply his experience inprivacy, data mining and the online community systems he has developedover the course of his career to further ensure the high-quality, safeonline experience trusted by hundreds of millions of Yahoo! users.

"We are proud and excited to have someone of Raghu's academiccaliber and entrepreneurial approach to help Yahoo! Research with ourcommitment to building the new science of the Internet," said UsamaFayyad, chief data officer and senior vice president. "Raghu joins arapidly growing assembly of the leading thinkers and scientists in keyfields of this new emerging science who have chosen to join Yahoo! todeliver on this ambitious goal and to help build innovative productsand services that are essential to consumers' lives."

Ramakrishnan co-founded and served as chairman and chieftechnology officer of QUIQ, a company that pioneered onlinequestion-answering communities as well as online collaborativecustomer support and knowledge management communities for companieslike Business Objects, Compaq, and Sun. He is co-author of thewidely-read text Database Management Systems (WCB/McGraw-Hill) and haspublished over 150 research papers throughout his career.

"Yahoo! fosters an open environment for innovation, engaging thetop thinkers in data mining, microeconomics and other fields to shapethe future of the Web," said Ramakrishnan. "This is the perfectopportunity to apply my interests and experiences in social search anddatabase management to help people connect to other people and to theinformation they need, making the Web a natural extension of theireveryday communities."

Ramakrishnan is the chair of the Association for ComputingMachinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)and serves on the boards of the Very Large Data Base (VLDB) Endowmentand ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(SIGKDD). Ramakrishnan is a Fellow of the ACM, and recipient of theDavid and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science andEngineering, a National Science Foundation Presidential YoungInvestigator Award, and an ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award. He is anassociate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems and wasrecently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Data Mining and KnowledgeDiscovery.

Ramakrishnan holds a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Madras and aPh.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

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