My name is Girish Keshav Palshikar. I was born on 5th August, 1963.
Education:
M.S. (Computer Science and Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai) in Jan. 1988.
M.Sc. (Physics) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Mumbai), in May 1985.
B.Sc. (Physics) from Mumbai (Bombay) University in May 1983.
In 1992, I joined what is now TCS Research (erstwhile Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC)), Pune, India, from where I retired as a Chief Scientist, on 31-August-2023. Overall, I worked in TCS Research for 31 years. I was made a TCS Distinguished Scientist on 03-Mar-2012. After retirement, I continued in TCS Research for two years as a Research Advisor till 31-August-2025.
My research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Theoretical Computer Science and their applications to various domains including fraud, money laundering and misinformation detection, computational law, human resources management, narrative text analysis, information and knowledge extraction from documents etc.
I am also a Visiting Faculty at the Computer Science Department, Pune University, Pune, India, as well as at the Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune (COEP).
My research publications are here.
Details of the courses I teach are here.
Slides of some presentations / talks / seminars/ short courses that I have given are here. I am always digging up my earlier presentations and adding them to that page. So keep an eye!
More about my wife Dr. Manasee Palshikar is here.
My daughter Dr. Mukta is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. She works on computational biology and biological data analysis in the context of colorectal cancer and interstitial lung disease. In 2023, she completed her Ph.D. in the Biophysics, Structural and Computational Biology Ph.D. program at the University of Rochester, NY, USA. Her Ph.D. research dealt with computational immunology, under the guidance of Dr. Juilee Thakar. In 2017, she completed her M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from Savitribai Phule Pune University, winning the gold medal. Mukta in a trained pianist, and has passed the 7th Grade of the Royal College of Music, London.
Some photos are here.
I am interested in philosophy and Indian classical music. I have tried my hand at writing poetry in English. Some of my poems are here. I have recently taken to writing science fiction short stories. Some of my published stories are here.
Contact e-mail: girishpalshikar[AT]gmail[DOT]com (Replace [AT] with @ and [DOT] with .)