Education:
- Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 1989-1994.
- M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 1986.
- B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, 1984.
- Visiting Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1990.
Research areas:
- Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, AI
Positions Held:
- Director and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna, 2015-current.
- Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2002-current.
- Professeur Invite', Groupe D'Etude en Traduction Automatique-Communication Langagiere et Interation Personne-Systeme (GETA-CLIPS) and Universite Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble, France, summer of 2005, 2009, 2011.
- Visiting Professor, Stanford University, summer of 2004.
- Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, 1996-2001.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, 1990-1995.
- Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, 1988-1990.
- Research and Development Engineer, Wipro Information Technology Ltd, 1986-87.
- Scientist, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), 1987-88.