Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan (https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~ganesh/) is currently the Bank of Baroda Chair Professor in Digital Entrepreneurship at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay. His research areas include Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, human-assisted AI/ML, AI/ML for resource-constrained environments, and the integration of symbolic domain knowledge into machine learning and NLP. Prof. Ramakrishnan leads India's Large Language Modeling initiatives through BharatGen, funded by NM-ICPS (Department of Science and Technology), along with collaborations with industry leaders such as IBM Research, Adobe, and Google.
He has long been dedicated to organizing efficient machine learning modules for resource-constrained environments, showcased through his contributions to https://decile.org/. His work has had notable impact in applications like Video Analytics (https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~vidsurv), a machine translation ecosystem (https://www.udaanproject.org/), and OCR systems (https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~ocr), all of which are extensively used. Additionally, he is advancing multi-modal analytics through his project (https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~malta/).
Prof. Ramakrishnan has received several prestigious accolades, including the National Gold Award for eGovernance in 2022, the Dr. P.K. Patwardhan Award for Technology Development in 2020, and IIT Bombay’s Impactful Research Award in 2017. He has also been recognized with the IBM Faculty Award, Amazon Research Award, and awards from Google Research, Qualcomm, Adobe, and Microsoft. He previously held the Institute Chair Professorship (2021-2024) and the J.R. Isaac Chair (2014-2016) at IIT Bombay.
Passionate about fostering India's AI research ecosystem, Prof. Ramakrishnan has co-founded, transferred technology to, or mentored several startups resulting from his and his collaborators' research. One such initiative of national importance is BharatGPT, a generative AI ecosystem for India under a public-private partnership (PPP), which he is spearheading.
He is also the founding head of the Koita Centre for Digital Health at IIT Bombay (https://www.kcdh.iitb.ac.in/), leading efforts alongside JIPMER in a pilot phase Centre of Excellence on AI for Healthcare. Furthermore, through his leadership in the National Disease Modeling Consortium, Prof. Ramakrishnan serves as a disease and economic modeling expert on the Standing Technical Sub Committee (STSC) and the Standing Working Group for Immunization and Vaccine Research and Capacity Building (SWG-IVRCB) under the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Start a discussion about improving the Draft:Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan page
Talk pages are where people discuss how to make content on Wikipedia the best that it can be. You can use this page to start a discussion with others about how to improve the "Draft:Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan" page.
