Raghu Ramakrishnan is a researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft^{[citation needed]}. He has been a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc.^{[citation needed]}

Ramakrishnan spent 22 years as a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[1] With Johannes Gehrke, he authored the popular textbook Database Management Systems, also known as the "Cow Book".

Ramakrishnan received a bachelor's degree from IIT Madras in 1983, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. He has been selected as an ACM Fellow (2001) and a Packard fellow, and has done pioneering research in the areas of deductive databases, data mining, exploratory data analysis, data privacy, and web-scale data integration. The focus of his work in 2007 was community-based information management.

Since 2012, Ramakrishnan has been working at Microsoft, heading Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) and leading the development of Azure Data Lake.^[1]