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Divyakant Agrawal is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He holds a PhD from SUNY Stony Brook and a BS from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. His research focuses on large-scale distributed systems, cloud data management, and database security, with notable contributions to geo-replicated data, privacy-preserving techniques, and social network analysis. Agrawal has led NSF-funded projects on data summarization, hardware acceleration, and wireless sensor networks. He served as VP of Data Solutions at ASK.com and as a visiting senior researcher at NEC Laboratories and the University of Hong Kong.
- Education: PhD (Computer Science, SUNY Stony Brook), BS (Electrical Engineering, BITS Pilani).
- Leadership Roles: Chair of UCSB Computer Science Department (1999–2003), Visiting Professorships at National University of Singapore and University of Hong Kong.
His research spans distributed algorithms, database concurrency control, and privacy in cloud systems. Key areas include transaction processing, data stream operators, and fraud detection in advertising networks. Agrawal has authored over 300 papers and co-edited journals like the VLDB. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS, and has received awards such as the Outstanding Graduate Mentor from UCSB (2011).
Professional Contributions: Served on program committees for SIGMOD, VLDB, and IEEE conferences; led editorial roles for Distributed and Parallel Databases and the VLDB Journal. His work on systems like G-Store (cloud data retrieval) and Zephyr (elastic databases) showcases innovations in scalability and autonomy.
