Raj Reddy

Raj Reddy
దబ్బాల రాజగోపాల్ రెడ్డి
Reddy in 1998
Born
Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy

(1937-06-13) 13 June 1937
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Madras (BEng)
University of New South Wales (MTech)
Stanford University (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
InstitutionsIIIT Hyderabad
Carnegie Mellon University
Stanford University
Doctoral advisorJohn McCarthy
Doctoral studentsJames K. Baker
Alexander Waibel
James Gosling
Janet M. Baker
Kai-Fu Lee
Xuedong Huang
Roni Rosenfeld
Harry Shum
Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years. He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth. He was the founding chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He was the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award, in 1994, sometimes known as the Nobel Prize of computer science, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.