Yahoo! Awarded Highest Technical Honor for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Business Wire, August 22, 2008

He is chair of ACM SIGMOD, on the Board of Directors of ACM SIGKDD and the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment, and has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, and the Database area editor of the Journal of Logic Programming.

Ramakrishnan is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has received several awards, including a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and an ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award.

Ramakrishnan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.

About ACM and SIGKDD

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