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Rajeev Motwani is dead

Washington: Rajeev Motwani, the 47-year-old Indian-American computer science professor at Stanford University who mentored Google’s co-founders when they were graduate students, has died in a freak drowning accident at his Atherton, California home.

He apparently drowned on Friday morning in a backyard swimming pool at the home he purchased three years ago, according to the San Jose Mercury News, a Silicon Valley news outlet.

Friends said he did not know how to swim but was planning to take lessons.

He is survived by his wife Asha Jadeja and daughters Naitri and Anya.

While little official information was available, friends speculated that Mr. Motwani might have slipped and fallen in the pool, mercurynews.com said.

Born March 26, 1962, in Jammu, Mr. Motwani grew up in New Delhi, earned a computer science degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 1983, and his doctorate from the University of California-Berkeley in 1988.

As a Stanford professor, he also served as the director of graduate studies for the computer science department and founded the Mining Data at Stanford project (MIDAS).

— IANS

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