Luis Gravano is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Luis joined Columbia in 1997. At Google, he was a Senior Research Scientist in 2001 and a Visiting Faculty Researcher in 2018-19. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1997, an M.S. degree from Stanford in 1994, and a B.S. degree from the Escuela Superior Latinoamericana de Informática (ESLAI), Argentina, in 1991. His research interests are in databases, information retrieval, and web search. Luis has earned an NSF CAREER award and multiple best paper awards, including at the ACM SIGMOD 2006 and IEEE ICDE 2005 conferences, and the ACM SIGMOD 2025 “Test of Time” award. His teaching has also been recognized at Columbia with the “Distinguished Teacher Award” from the Computer Science Department in 2011 and the “Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award” from the Columbia Engineering Alumni Association in 2012.