Welcome to Home Page of Kavi Narayana Murthy

• Education:

  • BE (Bachelor of Engineering) (Mechanical Engineering), Bangalore University, 1983
  • MTech (Master of Technology) (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics), University of Hyderabad, 1989
  • PhD (Computer Science), University of Hyderabad, 1996

• Professional Experience: (21 Years)

  • Department of CIS, University of Hyderabad - July 1990 to date
  • Sundaram Clayton Ltd. Bangalore - Senior Systems Officer, Feb 1989 to July 1990
  • Bharat Electronics, Bangalore - Deputy Engineer, March 1984 to July 1987, R&D(Radar)

• Research:

• Areas of Interest:
  1. Natural Language Processing: Syntactic Parsing, WSD, Text Categorization
  2. Speech Processing: Speech Recognition


• Publications: Over 50 Research Papers and several Books:
  1. "Natural Language Processing - An Information Access Perspective"
  2. "brahmacarya: Sex, Education and Human Life"


• Research Guidance: (5 PhDs), Over 40 MTechs

• Funded Research/Consultancy Projects:

• Language Engineering Research - UGC (under University with Potential for Excellence scheme) - April 2002 to March 2007 - Coordinator
• Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions (Telugu) - Ministry of Communications and Information Technology - April 2000 to December 2004 - Chief Investigator
• Hexapod Control System - Euroflex Transmissions (India) Pvt. Ltd. - February 1999 to January 2000 - Investigator
• Machine Aided Translation from English to Kannada - Government of Karnataka - Feb. 1998 to Feb. 1999 - Chief Investigator
• Spelling and Grammatical Error Detection and Correction - Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India (Under DST's Opportunities for Young Scientists Scheme) - April 1995 to September 1997 - Chief Investigator
• POWERSHIFT: A conversion tool for converting PowerBuilder applications to Oracle Forms 4.5 Applications - Optima Software Services ltd. - May 1995 to April 1996, - Investigator

• Visiting Assignments:

  • Center for Advanced Study in Linguistics, Osmania University, December 2005
  • AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, January to November 2005
  • Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) , Bangalore, January 2004
  • Center for Advanced Study in Linguistics, Annamalai University, February/March 2003

• Foriegn Visits/Links:

  • France: Indian Coordinator, Indo-French Research Network in Computational Linguistics, 2001-2004. Visited INRIA and University of Paris
  • Ethipoia: Visited Addis Ababa University and delivered lectures

• Interests and Hobbies:

• Sanskrit: Learn Sanskrit
• Indian Heritage: bhaarati: Welcome to the treasury of Indian Thought, Knowledge and Culture!

• Contact:

  Dr. K Narayana Murthy, Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad - 500 046 AP India. email: knmuh@yahoo.com