The Sanskrit Library

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Résumé

Résumé

1. Contact

President, The Sanskrit Library
Fairfield, Iowa 52556
USA

2. Education

  1. Wesleyan University, B.A. in philosophy, 6/1981
  2. Brown University, non-degree part-time graduate student in Sanskrit, 9/1982–5/1983
  3. University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Oriental Studies: Indo-Iranian section, 5/1990
    Ph.D. Diss.: “The denotation of generic terms in ancient Indian grammar, Nyāya, and Mīmāṁsā.”

3. Professional appointments

  1. Computer Analyst/Programmer, 1/1981–9/1983
  2. Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, 9/1985–5/1986
  3. Post-doctoral Research Associate, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 9/1990–12/1991
  4. Visiting Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Virginia, 1/1915–5/1992
  5. Visiting Lecturer in Classics, Brown University, 7/1992–6/1994
  6. Post-doctoral Research Associate, Linguistics, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 6–7/1993, 7–8/1994
  7. Lecturer in Classics, Brown University, 7/1994–6/2001
  8. Visiting Professor, Maharishi University of Management, 4–6/2009
  9. Senior Lecturer in Classics, Brown University, 7/2001–6/2011
  10. Visiting Faculty in Sanskrit Studies, Univ. of Hyderabad, 12/2009–2/2010, 12/2010, 1/2012
  11. Visiting Senior Lecturer in Classics, Brown University, 7/2011–12/2011
  12. Visiting Professor, Maharishi University of Management Research Institute, 7/2011–1/2012
  13. Laureate of a Chaire Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal financed by the French government and the region of the Ile de France, managed by the Foundation of the École Normale Supérieure, appointed to the Laboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques de l’Université Paris Diderot., 2/2012–7/2013
  14. Visiting Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, 12/2012–4/2013
  15. Visiting Professor, Maharishi University of Management Research Institute, 8/2013–6/2014
  16. Visiting Professor, Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, 2, 10–11/2014
  17. Visiting Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, 12/2014–11/2017
  18. Associate, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University, 5/2015–10/2016
  19. Visiting Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 2018–2019
  20. Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 1–12/2020
  21. Adjunct Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 2020–pres.
  22. Lecturer, South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin, 6–8/2023
  23. Founder and director, The Sanskrit Library, 11/2002–present

4. Academic honors

  1. Outstanding High School Senior’s Semester Scholarship, University of New Haven, 1/1976–5/1976
  2. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships, University of Pennsylvania, 9/1983–5/1985
  3. American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship, Sampūrṇānanda Saṁskr̥ta Viśvavidyālaya, 12/1986–5/1988
  4. Mellon Graduate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 9/1988–8/1989
  5. Dean’s Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 9/1989–5/1990
  6. Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Learn German in Germany program scholarship to attend an 8-week intensive language course at the Goethe Institute in Berlin, 7–8/1998
  7. Brown University, M.A. honoris causa, 5/2007
  8. Katharine F. Pantzer Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography, Houghton Library, 2018–2019

5. Research grants

5.1. Current grants

  1. Sanskrit data-entry and Vedic character display, Technology adaptation project, अष्टादशी projects, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Venue: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 2023–2025, Principal Investigator, ₹4,00,000.
  2. Digitization and markup of the masterpieces of Sanskrit kāvya and their most essential commentaries, Digital and online resources project, अष्टादशी projects, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Venue: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Ganganath Jha Campus, Chandrashekhar Azad Park, Allahabad, 2023–2025, Principal Investigator with Lalit Kumar Tripathi, ₹12,00,000.
  3. Sanskrit optical character recognition trained on generated fonts with style transfer, The Sanskrit Library, funded by the Prahalad Family Charity, Principal Investigator, $24,000.

5.2. Completed grants

  1. Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, Rāmopākhyāna: the story of Rāma in the Mahābhārata: an electronic book for the sequential unfoldment of knowledge, 10 April 1998–31 December 1999, Principal Investigator, $16,950.
  2. American Philosophical Society, Vedārthadīpikā Manuscript Collection, 12 December 1998 – 22 January 1999, Principal Investigator, $5,829.80.
  3. Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, Kramapāthha: a foreign language reader for the sequential unfoldment of knowledge: sound and indices, 1 January – 31 December 2000, Principal Investigator, $9,777.
  4. Das Educational Foundation, A web-based dual language edition of the text of Pūrṇabhadra’s Pañcākhyānaka with Arthur W. Ryder’s English translation, 1 January – 31 June 2000, Principal Investigator, $20,000.
  5. Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, A Digitized List of the Principal Parts of Sanskrit Verbs, Sanskrit, 1 June 2002 – 31 December 2002, Principal Investigator, $2,107.
  6. Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, Sanskrit parser, phase I: nominal forms production, 1 June 2002 – 30 June 2003, Principal Investigator, $2,500.
  7. Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, Sanskrit educational software: integrating linguistic programs into automated Sanskrit translation exercises, 1 January – 30 June 2005, Principal Investigator, $3,200.
  8. Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, Web-based Sanskrit course, 2003–2005, Principal Investigator. https://sanskritlibrary.org
  9. Salomon Grant, Dean of the College, Brown University, Pañcatantra audio support, 2005–2006, $200.
  10. Office of the Vice President of Research, Brown University, Tradition in transition: documenting Indian festivals in America, 2005–2006, $3200.
  11. Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, Pañcatantra audio, 1 July 2006 – 30 June 2007, Principal Investigator, $2,700.
  12. National Science Foundation, International digital Sanskrit library integration (IIS-0535207), 1 January 2006 – 30 December 2008, Principal Investigator, $225,428.00 ($64,152.00 year one, $77,179.00 year two, and $84, 097 year three).
  13. National Science Foundation, International digital Sanskrit library integration supplement: Vedic character technical report, 1–30 September 2008, Principal Investigator, $10,906.
  14. National Science Foundation, International digital Sanskrit library integration supplement: transcoding, 5 September – 30 December 2009, Principal Investigator, $11,016.
  15. National Endowment for the Humanities, Enhancing access to primary cultural heritage materials of India: integrating images of literary sources with machine-readable texts, lexical resources, linguistic software, and the web (PW50408), 1 July 2009 – 30 December 2012, Principal Investigator, $301,540.
  16. National Endowment for the Humanities, Sanskrit lexical sources: digital synthesis and revision (HG-50022-10), 1 July 2009 – 30 June 2014, Principal Investigator, $177,872. In collaboration with Thomas Malten at the University of Cologne, granted 111,500{€
    17. by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).}
  17. National Endowment for the Humanities, Developing automated text-image alignment to enhance access to heritage manuscript images (PR-50178-13), Principal Investigator, 1 June 2013 – 30 June 2016, $280,000.
  18. National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation and Access, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Enhancing access to primary cultural heritage materials of India: cataloging, digitizing, and integrating the Houghton Library’s Indic manuscript collection with intelligent digital resources (opportunity number: 20120719, PW-51273-13), 1 August 2013 – 31 December 2016, Principal Investigator, $195,000.

6. Service

6.1. To Brown University

  1. South Asia Faculty Committee, since 9/1992
    1. Chairman, 7/1995–6/1996
    2. Acting Chairman, 9–12/2010
  2. Faculty Advisory Committee on Computing, 9/1994–6/1997
  3. Center for Language Studies, 1996–6/2011
    1. Grants Committee Chairman, 10/2005–10/2008

6.2. To the profession

  1. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (life member), since 1/1988
  2. American Oriental Society (life member), since 1/1990
  3. Association for Asian Studies (member), 1/1991–1/1998
  4. American Philosophical Association (member), 10/1991–1993
  5. Seminar on the Veda and its Interpretation, Dharam Hinduja Indic Research Center, Columbia (member), since 9/1995
  6. Journal of Consciousness Studies (submissions reviewer), since 11/1995
  7. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (submissions reviewer), since 12/2022
  8. Session Chair, 2nd Session, Vyākaraṇa Section B, 10th World Sanskrit Conference, 3–9 January 1997, Bangalore, India
  9. Baṅgīya Sāhitya Pariṣad [“Bengal Literary Society”] (life member), since 12/1998
  10. Steering Committee, Int’l Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Consortium, since 5/2008
  11. National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation and Access reviewer, 4/2009
  12. Panel organizer and chair, “Linguistic issues in the text-encoding of Sanskrit,” at Web X: a decade of the World Wide Web, joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, 29 May – 2 June 2003, Athens, Georgia.
  13. Panel organizer and chair, “International digital Sanskrit library integration;” session chair “Sanskrit and computing,” 13th World Sanskrit Conference, International Association of Sanskrit Studies, 10–14 July 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  14. Panel organizer and chair, “Digital Sanskrit library integration,” Devanāgarī OCR Workshop, Brown University, 17 November 2006, Providence, Rhode Island.
  15. Workshop organizer and chair, Devanāgarī OCR Workshop, Brown University, 16–18 November 2006, Providence, Rhode Island.
  16. Workshop organizer and chair, Vedic Unicode workshop, Brown University, 14–17 January 2007, Providence, Rhode Island.
  17. Workshop organizer and chair, digital Sanskrit lexical sources workshop, Brown University, 6–8 October 2007, Providence, Rhode Island.
  18. Program committee, First International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), 29–31 October, 2007, Rocquencourt, France.
  19. Convener, Second International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Brown University, 15–17 May, 2008, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  20. Panel chair, morning, 29 August, “Indian traditions of language studies,” Eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), University of Potsdam, 28 August – 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Germany.
  21. Program committee, Third International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, University of Hyderabad, 15–17 January 2009, Hyderabad, India.
  22. Session chair, Vyākaraṇa 4 September, and Philosophy 5 September, at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, 1–5 September 2009, Kyoto University, Kyoto.
  23. Program committee, Fourth International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 10–12 December 2010, New Delhi, India.
  24. Session chair, Discourse and pragmatics, CoLing, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 10–15 December 2012, Mumbai, India.
  25. Program committee, Fifth International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 4–6 January 2013, Mumbai, India.
  26. Session chair, Session 1, day 3, National Seminar on the Application of Information Technology for Conservation, Editing and Publication of Manuscripts, 20–22 January 2013, Bangalore.
  27. Convener, Seminar on Sanskrit syntax and discourse structures, 13–15 June 2013, Université Paris Diderot.
  28. Co-host with Gérard Huet, Workshop on computational Sanskrit syntax, 17-21 June 2013, Université Paris Diderot and INRIA Paris.
  29. Session chair, afternoon section of the special session on Recent Developments in Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, XXXth South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 6–8 February 2014, Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
  30. Chair, World Association of Vedic Studies Eleventh International Conference, “Vedic Living in a Modern World,” Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, 31 July – 3 August 2014.
  31. Session chair, Pāṇini, Sanskrit, and digitization, morning session I, third day, Pāṇini and the Pāṇinīyas of 16th–17th century C.E, trosième atelier du projet ANR PP16-17, Institut Français de Pondichéry, Pondicherry, 14–16 October 2014.
  32. Session chair, day one late morning session, Recent trends in Indological studies, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, 11–12 March 2015.
  33. Session chair, afternoon session, Wednesday, 1 July, ‘Sanskrit and the IT world’ section, 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Sanskrit Studies Center, Silpakorn University, Bankok, 28 June – 2 July 2015.
  34. Contributor, ICON 2016 workshop on bridging the gap between Sanskrit computational linguistics tools and management of Sanskrit digital libraries, IIT-BHU, Varanasi, 17–20 December 2016.
  35. Contributor, International workshop on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Mahabharata project of the Department of European Studies, Manupal University, Manipal, 1–5 January 2017.
  36. Contributor, संस्कृतसङ्गणनशोधविकासकार्यशाला शाब्दबोधसंगोष्ठी च [Workshop on Sanskrit computational research and development and seminar on verbal cognition], Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Ganga Nath Jha Campus, Allahabad, 19–25 February 2017.
  37. Leader, Workshop on Sanskrit digital humanities, TEI text-encoding and digital manuscript cataloguing, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Ganga Nath Jha Campus, Allahabad, 1–20 May 2017.
  38. Leader, Workshop on encoding Sanskrit text in TEI-XML, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 4–5 August 2017.
  39. Co-convener, Vyākaraṇa section, 17th World Sanskrit Conference, Vancouver, 2018.
  40. Leader, Digital Sanskrit philology tutorial, 16th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2019), Language Technologies Research Center, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 18 December 2019.
  41. Leader, Workshop entitled, “Digital humanities for research in Sanskrit,” Deccan College Post-graduate and Research Institute, 12 October 2018. Pune.
  42. Leader, Workshop entitled, “Digital philology,” Language Technologies Research Center, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 2 May 2019.
  43. Leader, Workshop on Sanskrit digital humanities, TEI text-encoding, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Ganga Nath Jha Campus, Allahabad, 8–14 May 2019.
  44. Program committee, The sixteenth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2019), IIIT Hyderabad, 18–21 December 2019.
  45. Review committee, International Sanskrit Computational linguistics Symposium, IIT Kharagpur, 2019.
  46. Review committee, The seventeenth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2020), IIT Patna, 18–21 December 2019.
  47. Program committee, Computational linguistics and digital humanities section, 18th World Sanskrit Conference, Canberra, 2021.
  48. Review committee, The eighteenth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2021), National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, 16–19 December 2021.
  49. Convener, Professor George Cardona Felicitation Volumes Dedication, The Sanskrit Library, Providence, Rhode Island, 3 June 2022.
  50. Review committee, The nineteenth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2022), International Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India, 15–18 December 2022.
  51. Research guide, project entitled, “Digitization and Markup of कालिदास’s रघुवंश with मल्लिनाथ’s commentary सञ्जीवनी,” undertaken by Ketaki Kaduskar for an Indian Knowledge System Research Grant, 2022.
  52. Review committee, The twentieth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2023), Goa University, Goa, India, 15–18 December 2023.
  53. Program committee, 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Auroville, Puducherry, India, 15–17 February 2024.
  54. Program committee, Computational linguistics and digital humanities section, 19th World Sanskrit Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 26–30 June 2025.
  55. Program committee, 8th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, IIT, Roorki, India, 9–11 March, 2026.

6.3. To the community

  1. Secretary, Sierra Club Rhode Island Chapter Political Commitee, 2007–2008.
  2. Board of Directors, Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living, Providence, RI., 2007–2009.
  3. Life member, Sierra Club.