Saurav Sahay

Saurav is a PhD candidate in Computer Science program at the College of Computing, Georgia Tech. He is expected to graduate in Summer 2011 with specialization in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked on IBM Watson Question Answering system as an interm and other health informatics projects at IBM Research Labs. He was a finalist in the worldwide IBM PhD Fellowship competition. His interests lie in Medical Informatics, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Extraction technologies, User Modeling and Personalization systems.

 

 

Dr. Ashwin Ram (PhD Yale ’89)

Dr. Ashwin Ram is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology, and an Adjunct Professor in Department of Math & Computer Science at Emory University. He is the Director of Georgia Tech's Cognitive Computing Lab. He has founded two Georgia Tech spinoffs, Enkia Corporation, an artificial intelligence software company, and Inquus Corporation, an e-learning company.

 

 

Past Project Contributors

 

 

 

Anushree Venkatesh (MS GT '09)

Anushree graduated with a MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and now works with Junction Solutions as a Senior Consultant. She has the experience of working in an agile development environment for a startup as well as in an iterative development environment at Infosys Technologies and brings together learning from both experiences. She has keen business sense and likes to interact with People. Her technological expertise lies in the area of Natural Language Processing, Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies and applied Machine Learning systems.

 

 

Alejandro Dominguez (MS GT '09)

Alejandro graduated with a MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and now works for Microsoft Bing team. He was instrumental in creating the initial Cobot backend infrastructure with latest tools and technologies such as JBoss App server, Hibernate tools and xml messaging infrastructure for communicating with the servlets.

 

 

Bharat Ravisekar (MS GT '09)

Bharat graduated with a MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and now works for Amazon. He worked on the User Modeling engine as part of another prohect with fine-grained Short Term and Long Term cognitive user models. His contributions were later adapted in the Cobot system for the user modeling modules. His interests include photography and technology.