14 Facts About Rajeev Motwani

Rajeev Motwani was an Indian-American professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science.

Rajeev Motwani was a winner of the Godel Prize in 2001.

Rajeev Motwani was born in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India, on 24 March 1962, and grew up in New Delhi.

Rajeev Motwani founded the Mining Data at Stanford project, an umbrella organization for several groups looking into new and innovative data management concepts.

Rajeev Motwani's research included data privacy, web search, robotics, and computational drug design.

Rajeev Motwani is one of the originators of the Locality-sensitive hashing algorithm.

Rajeev Motwani co-authored another seminal search paper What Can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket with those same authors.

PageRank was the basis for search techniques of Google, and Rajeev Motwani advised or taught many of Google's developers and researchers, including the first employee, Craig Silverstein.

Rajeev Motwani was an author of two widely used theoretical computer science textbooks: Randomized Algorithms with Prabhakar Raghavan and Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation with John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman.

Rajeev Motwani was an avid angel investor and helped fund a number of startups to emerge from Stanford.

Rajeev Motwani sat on boards including Google, Kaboodle, Mimosa Systems, Adchemy, Baynote, Vuclip, NeoPath Networks, Tapulous and Stanford Student Enterprises.

Rajeev Motwani was active in the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.

Rajeev Motwani was a winner of the Godel Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation.

Rajeev Motwani was found dead in his pool in the backyard of his Atherton, San Mateo County, California home on 5 June 2009.