Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University

His research focuses on data mining and information retrieval in large-scale networks, and he is particularly interested in the interaction of people and data.

From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google, responsible for Personalized Search and iGoogle.

Prior to Google, he was the founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired by Google in 2003.

Sep is the author of two books and over 30 technical publications. His artwork has been exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival and the Victoria and Albert Musem, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston).