Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Bipin Indurkhya
 

 Personal:

Address:    International Institute of Information Technology
                    Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500 032, India.                       

Tel: +91-40-2300-1967 Ext 182                                                         Email: bipin@iiit.ac.in

 Education:

1.            University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1981-1984, Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science; Thesis title: A Computational Theory of Metaphor Comprehension and Analogical Reasoning, Thesis Advisor: Dr. M.A. Arbib.

2.            Philips International Institute of Technological Studies, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (Affiliated to the Netherlands Universities’ Foundation For International Cooperation), 1980-1981, M.E. in Electronics Engineering; Thesis title: Sentence Analysis Programs Based on Montague Grammars.

3.            University of Bhopal, Bhopal, India, 1974 -1979, B.E. with First Class Honors in Electronics Engineering.

 

Languages: Hindi (mother tongue), English (fluent), Japanese (fluent), Dutch (elementary).

 

Experience:

1.            Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad: 2004 – present.

2.            Faculty of Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Japan.

·             Professor, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering: 2002 ­– 2004.

·             Professor, Department of Computer, Information, and Communication Sciences: 2000 – 2002.

·             Associate Professor: Department of Computer, Information, and Communication Sciences:1995 ­– 2000.

Responsibilities have included:

·             Undergraduate and Graduate courses on Robotics (in English and Japanese)

·             Basic seminar on robotics experiments for 1st year students.

·             Natural Language Processing (in Japanese)

·             Functional Programming: Lisp and Haskell (In Japanese).

·             Introduction to Computers (in English).

·             Committee work: Public relations committee: 2000 – 2002; 2003 – 2004. Responsibilities included:

·             Lecturing at local high schools

·             Lecturing to high school students on campus visits

·             Organizing open campus and other such events

·             “Let’s make robots” event for local primary and middle school children.

3.            Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, Takushoku University, Tokyo, Japan: September 2003 – March 2004. Taught a course on Robotics for Juniors/Seniors in Japanese.

4.            Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, Sept. 1995 ­– Aug. 1998.

5.            Research Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Sept. 1994 ­– Aug. 1995.

6.            Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, Sept. 1994 ­– May 1995. Courses taught included: Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence.

7.            Guest Researcher, Department of Alfa Informatica, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Oct. 1994 ­– Feb. 1995.

8.            Visiting Associate Professor, College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Sept. 1992 ­– Aug. 1994. Courses taught included Operating Systems, and Graduate Research Seminar.

9.            Guest researcher, Institute of Computer Science and Society, Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 12 ­– Nov. 13, 1992. Responsibilities included teaching a research seminar on Computational Approaches to Metaphor and Analogy.

10           Guest researcher, Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Sankt Augustine, Germany, Nov. 13 – Nov. 20, 1992.

11.         Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, Jan. 1985 – Aug. 1992. Responsibilities included:

·             Undergraduate program director: 1988­ – 1990.

·             Faculty Advisor to the student chapter of the ACM: 1986 ­– 1990.

·             Academic advisor for undeclared majors: 1989 ­– 1990.

·             Courses taught included: Computer Architecture (both at the undergraduate and graduate levels), Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Computers (for non-CS majors), and graduate research seminars on various aspects of metaphors and analogies in cognition and their computational modeling.

 

Grants:

1.            Received a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to invite Prof. Stuart Shapiro (State University of New York at Buffalo) as a guest researcher, Oct. 8, 2001 – Oct. 28, 2001.

2.            Received a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to invite Prof. Mark Keane (Trinity College, Dublin) as a guest researcher, March 26, 1998 – April 8, 1998.

3.            Recipient of a grant from the Netherlands' Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) to visit University of Amsterdam as a guest researcher, Oct. 1994 – Feb. 1995, Netherlands Guilders f15,000.

4.            “Investigating the Psychological Basis of Creative Metaphors and Analogies,” Principal Investigator, April 1994 ­– March 1997, National Science Foundation, USA (International Programs-France), US$ 12,947.

5.            Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement to the existing NSF grant “Modeling the ‘Redescription’ Process in the Context of Proportional Analogies,” Principal Investigator, Sept. 1992 ­– Aug. 1993, National Science Foundation, USA, US$ 4,000.

6.            “Modeling the ‘Redescription’ Process in the Context of Proportional Analogies,” Principal Investigator, July 1991 ­– June 1994, National Science Foundation, USA, US$ 187,681.

 

Publications:

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