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Date of Birth
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05-August-1929
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Place of Birth
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Pune
(Pune district, Maharashtra, India)
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Nationality
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United States of America, India
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Also know as
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Aravind K. Joshi, Aravind Krishna Joshi
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Profession
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Engineer, Computer Scientist
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Aravind Krishna Joshi 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.
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