Aravind Joshi
Aravind Krishna Joshi was 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 was the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.
Awards and recognitions
- Guggenheim fellow, 1971–72
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1976
- Best Paper Award at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987
- Founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 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
- Awarded the Rumelhart Prize, 2003
- The [Franklin Institute Awards|Benjamin Franklin Medal] in Computer and Cognitive Science, 2005
- Doctor honoris causa of mathematical and physical sciences, Charles University in Prague, October 30, 2013
- S.-Y. Kuroda Prize of the SIG Mathematics of Language of the ACL, 2013