Root-1 Research is a research organization interested in problems related to cognition, communication and education. My current efforts are oriented around algorithmic ways to make middle- and high-school level content presentations more interesting. This involves looking at the content, presentational models, motivational tools and collaborative education.

I received my degrees in Computer Science from IIT-Bombay (B.Tech), Ohio State University (MS) and the University of Southern California (Ph.D). I have been affiliated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), the University of Pittsburgh (LRDC), Carnegie Mellon University (LTI), Xerox PARC, Stanford (CSLI), and Google Research. I have written numerous papers and two books: most of them on topics that deal with natural language processing.

My current interests are in the areas of education, gaming and HCI. I consult for many companies, serve on several TABs, is a director at community non-profits, and was on the international advisory panel for the Indian Govt's Universal ID project and the EU ESPIRIT PASCAL project on statistical machine learning and pattern recognition.

Physically we are located in Palo Alto, California.

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Thanks and we look forward to learning something new.