Héctor García Molina
| Héctor García-Molina | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Mexican-American |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | ITESM |
| Doctoral advisor | Gio Wiederhold |
| Doctoral students | Robert Abbott, Sergey Brin, Kenneth Salem, Neil Daswani, Boris Kogan, Narayanan Shivakumar, Edward Y. Chang, Kevin CC Chang, Junghoo Cho |
| Known for | Distributed databases |
| Notable awards | 1999 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award |
Héctor García-Molina (born 1954) is a Mexican/American computer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was advisor to Sergey Brin, the founder of Google, from 1993 to 1997 when he was a computer science student at Stanford.
Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, García-Molina graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) and received both a master's degree in Electrical Engineering (1975) and a doctorate in Computer Science (1979) from Stanford University.
From 1979 to 1991, García-Molina worked as a professor of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University in New Jersey. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Stanford University as the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and has served as Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory (August 1994 – December 1997) and as chairman of the Computer Science Department from (January 2001 – December 2004). During 1994–1998, he was the Principal Investigator for the Stanford Digital Library Project, the project from which the Google search engine emerged.
García-Molina has served at the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and has been a member of Oracle Corporation's Board of Directors since October 2001.
García-Molina is also a Fellow member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures and ONSET Ventures. In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award.
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