Aravind Joshi
| Aravind Krishna Joshi | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 5, 1929 Pune, India |
| Residence | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Fields | computational linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | College of Engineering, Pune Indian Institute of Science, University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Defining the tree-adjoining grammar formalism |
Aravind Krishna Joshi (Marathi: अरविंद कृष्ण जोशी) (born August 5, 1929 in Pune, India) is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Joshi studied at Pune University and the Indian Institute of Science, where he was awarded a BE in electrical engineering and a DIISc in communication engineering respectively. Joshi's graduate work was done in the electrical engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was awarded his PhD in 1960. He became a professor at Penn and is the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.
Awards and recognitions
- Guggenheim fellow, 1971–72[1]
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1976
- Best Paper Award at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987
- Founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1990
- IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, 1997
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1998
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 1999
- First to be awarded the Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award at the 40th anniversary meeting of the ACL, 2002[2]
- Awarded the Rumelhart Prize, 2003
- Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, 2005
- Doctor honoris causa of mathematical and physical sciences, Charles University in Prague, October 30, 2013[3]
- S.-Y. Kuroda Prize of the SIG Mathematics of Language of the ACL, 2013[4]
Awarded history
On April 21, 2005, Joshi was awarded the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. The Franklin Institute citation states that he was awarded the medal "for his fundamental contributions to our understanding of how language is represented in the mind, and for developing techniques that enable computers to process efficiently the wide range of human languages. These advances have led to new methods for computer translation."[5]
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| Preceded by | Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science 2005 |
Succeeded by Donald Norman |
| Preceded by
None
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ACL Lifetime Achievement Award 2002 |
Succeeded by Makoto Nagao |
- 1929 births
- Living people
- Guggenheim Fellows
- American linguists
- American people of Indian descent
- American people of Marathi descent
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Fellow Members of the IEEE
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial intelligence researchers
- Computational linguistics researchers
- American computer scientists
- Indian computer scientists
- American Hindus
- Indian mathematicians
- The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science laureates
- Indian Institute of Science alumni
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- Rumelhart Prize laureates
- People from Pune
