Profile of Dr. Vasudeva Varma

Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. Prior to joining IIIT-H, he was the president of MediaCognition India Pvt. Ltd and Chief Architect at MediaCognition Inc. (Cupertino, CA). Earlier he was the director of Engineering and research at InfoDream Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. He also worked for Citicorp and Muze Inc. in New York as senior consultant.

He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad in 1996. His areas of interests include search and information extraction, knowledge management and software engineering. He is heading the Search and Information Extraction Lab at Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC).