Héctor García-Molina

Héctor García-Molina
García-Molina (2011)
Born26 November 1954 (1954)
Died25 November 2019 (aged 6465)
EducationMonterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (BS) Stanford University (MS, PhD)
Known forDistributed databases
AwardsACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsStanford University
Doctoral advisorGio Wiederhold
Doctoral studentsRobert Abbott, Sergey Brin, Edward Y. Chang, Neil Daswani, Susan B. Davidson, Boris Kogan, Mor Naaman, Narayanan Shivakumar

Héctor García-Molina (26 November 1954 – 25 November 2019) was a Mexican-American computer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was the advisor to Google co-founder Sergey Brin from 1993 to 1997 when Brin was a computer science student at Stanford.