Ganesh Ramakrishnan
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| Born | India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | IIT Bombay |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Known for | Large language model, artificial Intelligence, machine learning |
| Website | Official profile |
Ganesh Ramakrishnan is an Indian academician and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. His research ares are generative AI, video surveillance, semi-supervised learning, optimization in machine learning. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in these areas..[1][2][3]
He is the principal investigator of BharatGen, a generative AI initiative, a government-funded research initiative led by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems.[4] The project focuses on developing open-source generative AI models for Indian languages and has been described in national media as a significant step toward advancing AI research in India.[5] Ramakrishnan holds the Bank of Baroda Chair Professorship in Digital Entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay[6]
Education
Ganesh Ramakrishnan received his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the IIT Bombay, followed by a Ph.D. from the same institute in 2005.
Awards and recognition
In 2025, Ramakrishnan was among the Top 30 Indian Minds Leading the AI Revolution by Forbes India in collaboration with Accel, in recognition of his contributions to artificial intelligence research and innovation in India.[7] In 2024, he was included in the AIM 100: Top 100 Most Influential AI Leaders Globally by Analytics India Magazine, which highlights prominent figures shaping the development and deployment of artificial intelligence worldwide.[8] In 2022, Ramakrishnan received the National Award for e-Governance (Gold Award) in the category Outstanding Research on Citizen-Centric Services by Academic/Research Institutions.[9][10] He also serves as a Co-Principal Investigator for the National Disease Modeling Consortium, a national initiative focused on disease modeling to inform public health policy and intervention strategies in India.[11]
Notable projects and initiatives
Ramakrishnan is the principal investigator of BharatGen a national initiative to advance generative AI research in India, designed to explore advanced applications of machine learning.[12][13][14]
He participated in the development of AIKOSH, a collaborative platform aimed at encouraging interdisciplinary exchange and knowledge-sharing among AI practitioners and researchers.[15][16]
He played a supporting role in Project Udaan, an educational effort focused on translating English-language engineering textbooks into various Indian languages to improve accessibility in higher education.[17][18]
He contributed to the establishment of DECILE, a platform dedicated to promoting data-centric approaches to AI research and academic training. In addition, he has participated in the Video Surveillance Analytics project, which explores intelligent video processing systems for enhancing operational efficiency and surveillance capabilities.[19]
References
- ↑ Maheshwari, Ayush; Singh, Atul Kumar; et al. (2025). "LexGen: Domain-aware Multilingual Lexicon Generation". Proceedings of the ACL Main Conference. arXiv:2405.11200.
- ↑ Mishra, Priya; Racha, Suraj; et al. (2025). "GuideQ: Framework for Guided Questioning for Progressive Informational Collection and Classification". Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025: 4630–4644. doi:10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.261. ISBN 979-8-89176-195-7. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
- ↑ "Google Scholar Profile – Ganesh Ramakrishnan". Google Scholar. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ "BharatGen Summit launches sovereign AI models to power India's GenAI revolution". ThePrint (ANI Press Releases). 9 June 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "India launches BharatGen project for generative AI in local languages". The Hindu. 25 June 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan". IIT Bombay CSE Department. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ "Meet the 30 Indian AI Leaders on the Forbes India & Accel Power List". Retrieved 5 June 2025.
- ↑ "AIM 100: The Most Influential Global Leaders in AI | AIM". October 2024.
- ↑ "IIT-B team wins national e-governance gold award". The Times of India. 4 December 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ↑ "IIT-Bombay develops AI platform for real-time video surveillance". Hindustan Times. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ↑ "People – National Disease Modeling Consortium". National Disease Modeling Consortium. Retrieved 11 Feb 2023.
- ↑ "BharatGen Summit launches sovereign AI models to power India's GenAI revolution". ThePrint. 25 June 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "India launches BharatGen, first govt-funded AI multimodal LLM for 22 Indian languages". Outlook Business. 25 June 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "India launches BharatGen AI model to revolutionize multilingual innovation at BharatGen Summit". DD News. 25 June 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "Democratising AI: IIT-B releases 16 datasets under AIKosh initiative". The Indian Express. 10 July 2025. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ↑ "AI datasets by IIT-Bombay to simplify Indian texts, help in AI research". The Times of India. 11 July 2025. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ↑ "Campus Talk: Project Udaan by IIT-Bombay proves a game changer in translating textbooks into Indian languages". The Indian Express. 10 January 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "A Project to Translate Engineering Books into Hindi, Vernacular Languages". The Times of India. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "Mumbai: IIT-B develops AI-based solutions for video analytics, surveillance". The Times of India. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
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