Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner
Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He was the
chairman of the Computer Science Department from January 2001 to
December 2004. From 1997 to 2001 he was a member the President's
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). From August 1994
to December 1997 he was the Director of the Computer Systems
Laboratory at Stanford. From 1979 to 1991 he was on the faculty of
the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, Princeton,
New Jersey. His research interests include distributed computing
systems, digital libraries and database systems. He received a BS in
electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey,
Mexico, in 1974. From Stanford University, Stanford, California, he
received in 1975 a MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in computer
science in 1979. Garcia-Molina is a Fellow of the Association for
Computing Machinery and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; received the 1999
ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award; is on the Technical Advisory Board of
DoCoMo Labs USA, Yahoo Search & Marketplace; is a Venture Advisor for
Diamondhead Ventures, and is a member of the Board of Directors of
Oracle and Kintera.