ESP Biography



KARTHIK RAGHUNATHAN, Stanford Computer Science Masters Student in AI



Major: Computer Science

College/Employer: Microsoft

Year of Graduation: 2010

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I am a Software Development Engineer working at Microsoft Corporation. I graduated from Stanford in 2010 with an MS in Computer Science with Distinction in Research. I specialize in the field of artificial intelligence, and am particularly interested in a sub-field called "Natural Language Processing". I have worked with Professors Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky in the Stanford NLP Group.

Prior to joining Stanford, I got my Bachelors (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut in India. I have always been interested in computers from a very young age, but my focus has shifted from just interacting with the computer for fun to making the computer an easy-to-use tool for helping human beings in their everyday lives. I strongly believe that Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence in general hold a lot of promise in achieving this goal. I have previously given seminars on "Spoken Dialog Systems" and "Machine Translation" during my undergraduate days and I am always looking forward to opportunities which allow me to share my excitement about NLP and its applications with others.

More about me at http://nlp.stanford.edu/~rkarthik.



Past Classes

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C1049: Teaching languages to Machines in Splash! Fall 2010 (Nov. 13 - 14, 2010)
How far are we from the conversing machines of the Star Wars or the Terminator series? What’s the secret behind Google Translate? Why is the U.S Defense investing so much in creating automatic translation machines? Come join us for a hands-on tutorial on Machine Translation and get an overview of the exciting research area called Computational Linguistics.


C878: Teaching languages to machines in Splash! Spring 2010 (Apr. 17 - 18, 2010)
How far are we from the conversing machines of the Star Wars or the Terminator series? What's the secret behind Google Translate? Why is the U.S Defense investing so much in creating automatic translation machines? Come join us for a hands-on tutorial on Machine Translation and get an overview of the exciting research area called Computational Linguistics.