Divy Agrawal

Divy Agrawal is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he also holds the Leadership Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science. He received his B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani, followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Since joining UCSB, Professor Agrawal has established himself as a leading researcher in databases, distributed systems, cloud computing, and large-scale data infrastructures and analytics. Over the course of his career, he has published more than 400 research articles and mentored approximately 50 Ph.D. students. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of both the Proceedings of the ACM on Modeling of Data and the Springer journal Distributed and Parallel Databases. He has served on several editorial boards, including ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, ACM Books, and the VLDB Journal. Professor Agrawal is a former Trustee of the VLDB Endowment and recently served as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD). His recognitions include the Gold Medal from BITS Pilani, the UCSB Academic Senate Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentoring, and multiple paper honors: Best Paper Awards (ICDE 2002, MDM 2011), an Influential Paper Award (NDSS 2024), and Test-of-Time Awards (ICDT, MDM). He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.