CV (Short)

Inderjeet Mani

BOOKS:

8. (Novel) The Conquest of Kailash. Pocket FM, 2023.

7. (Novel) Toxic Spirits. Calumet Editions, 2019. Second Edition, 2023.

6. (Digital Humanities) Computational Modeling of Narrative. Morgan-Claypool, 2013.

5. (AI & Linguistics) Interpreting Motion: Grounded Representations for Spatial Language (co- authored). Oxford University Press, 2012 (Japanese translation also).

4. (Digital Humanities) The Imagined Moment: Time, Narrative, and Computation. University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

3. (AI & Linguistics) The Language of Time (co-edited). Oxford University Press, 2005.

2. (AI) Automatic Summarization. John Benjamins, 2001. (Japanese translation also).

1. (AI) Advances in Automatic Text Summarization (co-edited). MIT Press, 1999.

SHORTER LITERARY WORK:

38. (Story) The Book of Alephs. Litbreak

37. (Story) The Station. Different Truths

36. (Book Review) The Alphabets of Latin America. Ars Notoria

35. (Book Review) Monsoon. The Hindu

34. (Story) One of Us. The Bookends Review

33. (Essay) A Personal Anthology. The Personal Anthology Project

32. (Essay) Computing the Elusive Spirit of Place. Streetlight. Revised version in book.

31. (Story) Last Rites. Storgy

30. (Travelogue) The Pipes of Curepipe. Cargo Literary

29. (Essay) The Limits of Machine Translation. Babel: The Language Magazine

28. (Essay) Clicking on the Moon. PANK

27. (Bulletin) Contaminated Blood in India. Heart News.

26. (Essay) The Fate of Conversation in an Age of Mechanical Chatter. Areo Magazine

25. (Story) Genes. Eclectica

24. (Essay) When Robots Read Books. Aeon. References: Lit Hub, The Core Blog, and The Diagonal 23. (Story) Mimi. Short Fiction: The Visual Journal

22. (Poems/Translations) Kabir and Bulleh Shah. Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts. Kabir reprinted in Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing.

21. (Story) Mother's Day. Unsung Stories

20. (Story) The Island Hereafter. Storgy

19. (Story) Translating Kun. Apple Valley Review. Reviews: TCR Story of the Month

18. (Story) Onya: An Artist Not Forgotten. Eclectica

17. (Story) A Prayer for Gan4. Eclectica

16. (Story) Khatoey. Asia Writes

15. (Travelogue) Tulips and Uzis: Travels in Israel

14. (Story) Journal of the Rossignol Expedition to Yunnan. New World Writing

13. (Travelogue) The Song of Singapore. The Deccan Herald, republished in The Reston Review.

12. (Travelogue) Shakespeare's England

11. (Story) A Flag for Gulnaz. Asia Writes

10. (Travelogue) Toasting the Todas

9. (Story) A Drink of Water. 3:AM Magazine

8. (Story) Far Away from Here. Slow Trains

7. (Story) The Bull's Eye. Drunken Boat (Finalist for the Pan Literary Award, also one of Story South’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories). Reviews: here and there

6. (Story) Extreme Sports Word Riot

5. (Travelogue) The Ghosts of New Mexico Plum Ruby Review

4. (Story) Legacy. Nimrod (Finalist for Katherine Anne Porter Prize)

3. (Story) Ice. Kimera

2. (Story) Beyond the Floating World. Poetry and Story

1. (Story) A Time of Champions. WIND (Short Fiction Award)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

2022-Present. Consulting Scientist, Indian Urban Data Exchange, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

2013-2014: Senior Director, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA

2012-2013: Head, R&D, Summly Ltd.

2008-2009: Visiting Fellow, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

1992-2008: Senior Principal Scientist, The MITRE Corporation, Washington and Bedford 

2005-2008: Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University

2005-2008: Research Affiliate, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT 

2003-2006: Associate Professor (tenured), Head, Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. (with Distinction), Computational Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1997 M.S., Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1980

B.Sc. Hons., Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, 1979

B.Sc., Physics, St. Stephen’s College, 1976

INVITED TALKS: Columbia University (2013), University of Michigan (2013), University of Colombo (2012), International Symposium on Natural Language Processing, Bangkok (2012), Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Bulgaria (2011), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2011), Spatial Analysis and Geomatics (SAGEO'09), Paris; Universities of Hamburg, Cambridge, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Oxford, Bremen (2009), Geographic Information Retrieval’08 (CIKM), Napa; University of Melbourne (2006), USC, University of Montreal (2005), Cambridge, Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Indian Institute of Science, IIT Bombay (2004), Maryland, Johns Hopkins (2002), IBM Research (2000), Microsoft Research (1999), Open Source Solutions (OSS-97), Washington, DC (1997), George Mason (1996), University of Texas, Austin (1992), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, St. Louis (1987), Stanford University (1986).

EDITORIAL BOARDS: Computational Linguistics (2002-2004), Natural Language Engineering (2011-2015).

JOURNAL REVIEWING: Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Information Processing and Management, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Engineering, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Bioinformatics, Information Retrieval, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Occasional reviewer for Oxford University Press, Kluwer, John Benjamins. Grant reviewing: periodically, for various U.S. government agencies, including NSF and NIH. Reviewer and Program Committee of conferences including Association for Computational Linguistics, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, etc.

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: (I have published nearly 100 papers, with over 11,000 citations) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7ySorPIAAAAJ

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A listing of these papers is at https://tinyurl.com/inderjeetmani/home/papers

PATENTS: 8 granted so far:

US10599721B2 , US9916309B2, EP2756425B1, CA2851772C, AU2012327239B8, AU2012327239B2, US10282469B2, US5218537A

See https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Inderjeet+Mani&dups=language