Rajeev Rastogi received the B. Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1988, and the masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in 1993 as a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) in the Information Sciences Research Center, and became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in 1998. In 1999, he was appointed as the Director of the Internet Management Research Department, and in 2003, he became a Bell Labs Fellow.

Rajeev Rastogi is active in the field of databases and has served as a program committee member for a number of conferences in the this area. His writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications and other professional conferences and journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and the Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) journal.