Rakesh Agrawal (Hindi: राकेश अग्रवाल, romanized: Rākēś Agravāl) is a computer scientist who until recently was a Technical Fellow at the Microsoft Search Labs.
IBM's commercial data mining product, Intelligent Miner, grew out of his work.
His research has been incorporated into other IBM products, including DB2 Mining Extender, DB2 OLAP Server and WebSphere Commerce Server, and has influenced several other commercial and academic products, prototypes and applications.
He also worked for three years at a leading Indian company, the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.
Wikipedia lists one of his papers Fast algorithms for mining association rules co-authored with Ramakrishnan Srikant published on VLDB in 1994 as one of the most influential database papers.