Ashwin Ram
| Ashwin Ram | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 27, 1960 (age 57) New Delhi, India |
| Residence | Palo Alto, California, USA |
| Nationality | Indian-American |
| Fields | Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science |
| Institutions | PARC, Georgia Tech, OpenStudy |
| Alma mater | Yale University, University of Illinois, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Mayo College |
| Doctoral advisor | Roger Schank |
Ashwin Ram (born July 27, 1960) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He was chief innovation officer at PARC from 2011 to 2016, and published books and scientific articles and helped start at least two companies.
Ashwin Ram was born in New Delhi, India, on July 27, 1960. He is a great-grandson of Sir Ganga Ram and is the eldest of three children. He grew up in New Delhi with a brief stint in Bombay, and attended one of India's oldest boarding schools, Mayo College.
Ram received his B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1982, where he received the President of India's Gold Medal for best undergraduate performance. He then traveled to the US, graduating with his M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. He received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University for his dissertation on "Question-Driven Understanding: An Integrated Theory of Story Understanding, Memory, and Learning" in 1989, under advisor Roger Schank.
He joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1989. He was associate professor in the School of interactive computing in the College of Computing, an associate professor of cognitive science, an adjunct professor in the School of Psychology, and an adjunct professor in math and computer science at Emory University.
In 1995 Ram co-edited (with David B. Leake) a book on goal-oriented learning. He co-edited (with Kenneth Moorman) a book on natural language understanding.
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