Inderjeet Mani
Chiang Mai
Thailand
Inderjeet
Mani   Summarization, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, narratology, time, space, fiction. Language Technologist and Author. Latest book: The Imagined Moment. Forthcoming books: Interpreting Motion: Grounded Representations for Spatial Language and Computational Modeling of Narrative. As a scholar in a field that encompasses both computer science and linguistics, Mani's research has included the automatic summarization of documents and the extraction of temporal and spatial information from text in different languages. More recently, he has been applying some of these methods to literary narratives. He has published 6 books and 90 peer-reviewed technical papers, and has served on the Editorial Board of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Engineering. His education includes degrees from Delhi, Sussex, Pennyslvania and Georgetown. He has also published a number of travelogues and works of fiction. He studied creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania (with Carlos Fuentes), at Bread Loaf (with Patricia Hampl), and at Harvard (with Paul Harding). |  ht      Inderjeet Mani's latest book is The Imagined Moment. He is currently busy writing another one. Since 2008, he has been living and traveling in Asia, his travels featured in websites such as Rolf Potts' site on Vagabonding and in Digital Nomad (both English and Italian). He also serves on the advisory team of COSA, The Children's Organization of Southeast Asia, an NGO dedicated to the prevention of child trafficking and sexual exploitation within the Southeast Asia region. He is also a member of the The American Humanist Association. Inderjeet has worked in research in both academia as well as industry. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, a Research Scholar in Computer Science at Brandeis University, a (tenured) Associate Professor at Georgetown University, a Senior Principal Scientist at The MITRE Corporation, a Research Affiliate at CSAIL at MIT, and a Member of the Technical Staff at The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation and at Texas Instruments. He currently lives and thinks in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He has an h-index of 32 and a g-index of 64 (data from Publish or Perish), but such numbers should be taken with copious pinches of salt. |