Scholar
Divyakant Agrawal
Google Scholar ID: XcaEg-cAAAAJ
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UCSB
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,905
H-index
37
i10-index
113
Publications
20
Co-authors
28
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Received multiple awards and recognitions including Gold Medal, Top of the Graduating Class, BITS Pilani, 1980; Best Paper Award, ICDE'2002, 2002; Senior Member, IEEE, 2004; Senior Member, ACM, 2010; Distinguished Scientist, ACM, 2010; Outstanding Graduate Mentor, UC Santa Barbara, 2011; Best paper Award (runner-up), IEEE MDM'2011, 2011; William Mong Fellow, Hong Kong University, 2011; IEEE Fellow, 2012; ACM Fellow, 2012. Holds several technology patents such as System and methods for invalidation to enable caching of dynamically generated content, US Patent 7,228,318, June 5, 2007.
Research Experience
- Served as a Visiting Research Scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center (August 1994 -- December 1994), Visiting Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Laboratories of America (January 1997 -- December 2009), Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara (July 1999 -- June 2003), Vice President of Data Solutions and Advertising Systems at ASK.com (January 2006 -- December 2007), Technology Advisor at ASK.com (January 2008 -- December 2008), Technology Advisor at Future Computing Division, NEC Japan (January 2008 -- December 2011), Visiting Professor at School of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (June 2010 -- September 2010), William Mong Visiting Research Fellow at School of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (December 2011).
Education
- Received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and Master's and PhD degrees in Computer Science from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Background
- Research interests include distributed systems and databases. He is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
