Dr. Vasudev Varma

Vasudeva Varma is a Professor and a former Dean (Research & Development) at IIIT Hyderabad. His research interests are in the broad areas of Information Retrieval, Extraction and Access, more specifically: natural language processing, social media analysis, cross language information access, summarization and semantic search. He served as the CEO of IIIT Hyderabad Foundation between 2013-2020, which runs one of the largest technology incubators in India.

He published a book (on Software Architecture) and over two hundred technical papers. He was a visiting professor at UPV, Valencia, Spain, UBO, Bretagne, France and Language Technologies Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA. He is a founding member of two ACM India SIGs – ISoft and IKDD and currently a member of ACM India Council.