Name:Vasudeva Varma

Bio:

Dr. Vasudeva Varma is a Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), currently serving as the Head of Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) and the Head of Information Retrieval and Extraction Lab (iREL). His research interests are in the broad areas of Information Retrieval, Extraction & Access, more specifically ~ Social Media Analysis, Summarization, Semantic Search, Text Generation, and Cloud Computing.

He has previously served as CEO of IIIT Hyderabad Foundation, which runs one of the largest technology incubators in India, and the Dean (Research & Development), IIIT-H.

He is currently on academic break, working as SVP (Research) at Brane Enterprises.

Country:India

Affiliation:International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad

Research interests:Language processing and generation, Learning Sciences, Cloud Computing, Software Architecture