Raghu Ramakrishnan is a researcher in the areas of database and information management.
Inc.[citation needed] Ramakrishnan spent 22 years as a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
[1] With Johannes Gehrke, he authored the popular textbook Database Management Systems, also known as the "Cow Book".
Ramakrishnan received a bachelor's degree from IIT Madras in 1983, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.
Since 2012, Ramakrishnan has been working at Microsoft, heading Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) and leading the development of Azure Data Lake.