Alumni: Srini Narayanan

Srini Narayanan, Leader of ICSI's Artificial Intelligence Group

Director, Artificial Intelligence
snarayan @ icsi.berkeley.edu

Srini Narayanan received his bachelor's degree of technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and his doctorate in computer science from UC Berkeley. His doctoral dissertation developed a novel computational model of linguistic aspect and metaphor that was inspired by results in biological control theory and general constraints on modeling neural activity. The dissertation was nominated for the David Sakrison Memorial Prize for the best Berkeley electrical engineering and computer science dissertation of 1997. Narayanan helped establish the Berkeley Neural Theory of Language group, whose goal is to build biologically plausible computational models of language learning and use. Narayanan is the lead principal investigator of the multi-university MetaNet Project, which is building a multilingual metaphor repository. As the AI Group leader, he supervises a strongly interdisciplinary team comprising computer scientists, linguists, and neuroscientists. He is the recipient of the David Marr Distinguished Paper Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, and the ten-year highest impact paper award from the Semantic Web Science Association. He was a 2008-2009 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

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