Dr. Rajeev Sangal

Dr. Rajeev Sangal, a distinguished researcher in Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence, has also dedicated his efforts towards Universal Human Values. Previously, he served as a Professor at IIIT Hyderabad from 2018 to 2022.

Prior to that, he held the esteemed position of being the first Director of the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, from 2013 to 2018. Furthermore, Dr. Sangal played a pivotal role in the development of IIIT Hyderabad, where he served as the Director for more than two terms from 2002 to 2013, during its establishment. Before his tenure at IIIT Hyderabad, he served as a faculty member at IIT Kanpur from 1982 to 1999. During his time at IIT Kanpur, he also served as the head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from 1987 to 1990.

Dr. Sangal holds a BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, and he pursued his MS and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.

In 2002, Dr. Rajeev Sangal established the Language Technologies Research Centre at IIIT-H, assuming the role of its founder-head. This center has emerged as the largest academic hub for computational linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing research in its respective region.

Notably, Dr. Sangal played a vital role in integrating the Universal Human Values course into the academic curriculum at IIIT-H in 2005. This course gained recognition and was subsequently adopted by numerous prominent universities in India, spanning across approximately 2000 colleges. Through an extensive training program, thousands of teachers have been equipped to teach the Universal Human Values course.

Dr. Sangal has made notable contributions to the academic community. He served as a member of the editorial board for Computational Linguistics from 2004 to 2006 and for the Computer Science and Informatics journal from 1995 to 2003. Additionally, he has held editorial positions in various journals such as Machine Translation, Natural Language Engineering, Trans. of Asian Language Processing, CSI Transactions, among others. Furthermore, he actively participates as a reviewer for esteemed conferences including ACL, COLING, IJCNLP, ICON, and more.