| Prof. Rajeev Motwani |
| Venture Advisor |
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Rajeev is a sought-after seed and angel investor, and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University where he also serves as the director of graduate studies. Many high-profile startups, including Google, have been founded or staffed by Motwani's students. He joined the staff at Stanford in 1988 after obtaining a PhD in Computer Science from Berkeley and a bachelor's in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur in 1983. He has collaborated with Kanwal on a number of companies, most recently as director at Kaboodle an Indo-US startup with offices in Santa Clara, California and Delhi, India. Rajeev is a charter member of TiE, and Board member of BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students). He serves as a director or board advisor to numerous companies, including: Agitar, Asempra, Centrata, Chutney, Coral8, Flarion, Flexlogics, Google, GreenBorder, Kaboodle, Meru Networks, Mimosa, Neopath Networks, Revenue Science, Sinett, and Xambala. Rajeev is well-known for his research in web search and information retrieval, databases, data mining, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. He has written two books used at universities across the world including Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995. Rajeev has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and currently serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is responsible for numerous software patents, and has supervised many PhD students who have gone on to become faculty members at universities such as MIT, Princeton, and University of Pennsylvania.
