M.A : 1991, Linguistics, JNU, New Delhi
M.Phil : 1993, Linguistics (Computational Morphology), JNU, New Delhi
Ph.D : 1998, Linguistics (Machine Translation), JNU, New Delhi
M.A. : 1999, Linguistics (Natural Language Interface),University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Indian languages corpora and standards, Sanskrit and Hindi linguistics, Science & Technology in Sanskrit texts, Computational Lexicography, Machine Translation, e-learning, web based technologies, RDBMS techniques, software design and localization
Chairman, Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), Ministry of Education, Government of India (on deputation from JNU) (27/5/2022 onwards)
Coordinator, Ayurveda Biology Program, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU (28/2/2020-27/2/2022)
Dean, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, J.N.U. (29-12-2017 - 28-12-2019)
Director, International Collaboration, J.N.U. (05-05-2016 - 14.01.2018)
Chairperson, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, J.N.U. (19-02-2016 - 28-12-2017)
Professor of Computational Linguistics, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, J.N.U (since 2014)
Concurrent Faculty, Center for Linguistics, SLL&CS, JNU (2013 - till date)
Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, J.N.U (2008 - 2014)
Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, J.N.U (2002 - 2008)
Software Development Specialist, Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois, USA (2001 - 2002)
Software Engineer, Collaborative Technologies (renamed dChain Commerce), Champaign, Illinois, USA (1999 - 2001)
Research Assistant, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1998 - 1999)
Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (Summer, 1997)
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1996-1998)
Guest/Visiting Faculty
Guest Professor, University of Wurzburg, Germany, under DAAD fellowship, November 2016
Visiting Professor, University of Florence, Italy, June-July 2016
Guest Lecturer under DAAD fellowship, Digital Humanities Department, University of Wurzburg, Germany, 2014
Guest Lecturer, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia, 2013
Mukesh & Priti Chatter Distinguished Professor of History of Science (Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA) 2009-2012
* Received the "Datta Peetha Aasthaana Vidvana" award for Sanskrit linguistics on 26th May 2017
* KECSS Felicitation Award - 2016 for the revival and development of Sharada script by Kashmir Education, Culture and Science Society (KECSS), 26th Feb, 2016
* DAAD fellowship (Germany) to teach Computational Linguistics at University of Wurzburg, Germany in 2014
* Nominated to the Editorial Board of Springer for their journal Language Resource and Evaluation (LRE) since Feb 2010.
* Evaluated as Exceptional Programmer by the HKUSA software director, 2002
* Beckman Institute for Advance Science & Technology, University of Illinois Research Assistantship for advanced studies (Illinois, USA) 1998
* Google consultancy for studying bilingual speech variations (2021-2022)
* Google consultancy for studying bilingual interactions in the NCR (2020-2021)
* Nuance Communications consultancy for mobile keyboard for Indian languages (Feb - April 2016)
* Swiftkey consultancy for mobile phones predictive keyboard for minor Indian languages (Jan - March 2015)
* EZ Data Intelligence consultancy for research in smart text processors for medical domain, 2013 -
* Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA for Machine Translation for Indian Languages, July - August 2012
* Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA for narrow band data for language identification by computers, January - April 2011
* Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, for exploring scientific texts in Sanskrit, 2010-12
* Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Pune consultancy for Software Localization, 2007
* Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore for their POS tagging project for Indic languages, November 2006-January 2007
* Microsoft India on their project on Handwriting Recognition for Devanagari, February - June 2006
* Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha (then New Delhi)on their Database system for dialects of Hindi project (2002-2003)
1. Khanganba, K. Kabi; Jha, Girish Nath, 2020, “Formal Sanskrit Syntax: A Specification for Programming Language”, Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop, 72-78 ISBN 978-1-952148-93-4. Suzhou, China: Association for Computational Linguistics.
2. Srishti Singh and Girish Nath Jha, 2018, “English Multi-Word Expressions (MWE): A Tagset for Health Domain”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2018), pg 1812-1817. Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 December 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554795. IEEE. Electronic ISBN: 978-1-5386-5314-2, Print on Demand(PoD) ISBN: 978-1-5386-5315-9 (Scopus)
3. Madhav Gopal and Girish Nath Jha, 2017, “Zero Pronouns and Their Resolution in Sanskrit Texts”, procs of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications. ISTA’17, Manipal University, Karnataka 13-16 September, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 683, Springer (Scopus)
4. Srishti Singh, Girish Nath Jha, 2015, Statistical Tagger for Bhojpuri (employing Support Vector Machine), International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2015, Pages: 1524 - 1529, DOI: 10.1109/ICACCI.2015.7275829
5. Girish Nath Jha, 2010, The TDIL program and the Indian Language Corpora Initiative (ILCI), Procs of the 7th Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC`10), published by ELRA, isbn 2-9517408-6-7, pp982-985, Valletta, Malta, May 19-21, 2010
6. Madhav Gopal and Diwakar Mishra , Girish Nath Jha, 2009, Annotating Sanskrit corpus – adapting IL-POSTS, in Human Language Technology: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics (revised and selected papers from 4th LTC), pp 371-379, Zygmunt Vetulani (ed), Springer Verlag, Germany, 2009
7. Girish Nath Jha, Sudhir K Mishra , 2009, Semantic processing in Panini’s karaka system, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) 5402, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-00154-3 (Gérard P. Huet, Amba P. Kulkarni, Peter Scharf eds) pp 239-252, 2009
8. Girish Nath Jha, 2009, Inflectional Morphology Analyzer for Sanskrit, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) 5402 Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-00154-3 (Gérard P. Huet, Amba P. Kulkarni, Peter Scharf ed. pp 219-238, 2009
Vedanta Science and Technology – a multidisciplinary approach (eds Girish Nath Jha, Bal Ram Singh, Sukalyan Sengupta), Procs of the 22nd International Congress of Vedanta (22Vedanta), 27-30 Dec 2015, JNU, DK Printworld, Delhi, 2020
Veda as global heritage: Scientific perspectives (eds, Girish Nath Jha, Sudhir Kumar Arya, Abhijit Dixit, Atul Kr Ojha), Procs of the International Veda Conference on "Veda as Global Heritage: Scientific Perspectives", JNU, 15-18 Dec 2016, Vidyanidhi Prakashan, Delhi, 2019
Perspectives on the Origin of Indian Civilizations, Angela Marcantonio, Girish Nath Jha (ed.), 2012, DK Printworld, Delhi
Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections: Methods and Implementation, Subhash Chandra, Girish Nath Jha, 2011, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Girish Nath Jha (ed), proceedings of the 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, 2010, Springer Verlag, Germany
