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Researcher

Ramakrishnan Srikant

Ramakrishnan Srikant is a Google Fellow whose data mining research spans association rules, sequential patterns, and privacy-preserving methods. He worked at IBM Almaden Research Center before joining Google in 2005. His 1994 paper with Rakesh Agrawal, 'Fast algorithms for mining association rules', has more than 27,000 citations by July 2014. The ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award recognized his pruning techniques for association rules and his privacy-preserving data mining in 2006. The ACM elected him a Fellow in 2014 for contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining.

Now at
Google
Works
90
Citations
47,511
h-index
42

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1994

    Fast algorithms for mining association rules

    He and Rakesh Agrawal publish 'Fast algorithms for mining association rules' in 1994. The paper has more than 27,000 citations by July 2014.

  2. 2002–2004

    Hopper and VLDB awards

    He receives the 2002 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work on mining association rules. In 2004 the VLDB 10-year award goes to the 1994 association-rules paper with Rakesh Agrawal.

  3. 2005

    Joining Google from IBM

    He joins Google in 2005, after work in the Intelligent Information Systems Research department at IBM Almaden Research Center.

  4. 2006

    An ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award

    He wins the 2006 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award for pruning techniques for the discovery of association rules. The award also recognizes his privacy-preserving data mining.

  5. 2008

    An ICDE influential paper award

    The ICDE Influential Paper Award goes to his 1995 paper 'Mining Sequential Patterns' in 2008.

  6. 2014

    ACM Fellow and Test of Time

    The ACM elects him a Fellow in 2014 for contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining. SIGMOD's 2014 Test of Time Award goes to 'Order-Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data', a paper he co-wrote.

  7. As of October 2026

    Google Fellow in Ads & Commerce

    He is a Google Fellow in the Ads & Commerce Group. His research interests include data mining, online advertising, and user modeling.

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  1. Ramakrishnan Srikant - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Office of Alumni & Corporate Relations acr.iitm.ac.in. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Srikant's Home Page rsrikant.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. And the Awards Go To ... research.google. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award – SIGMOD Website sigmod.org. Checked 15 October 2026.