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
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
* 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
* 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. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
Angela Marcantonio, Girish Nath Jha (ed.), 2012, Perspectives on the Origin of Indian Civilizations, DK Printworld, Delhi
Subhash Chandra, Girish Nath Jha, 2011, Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections: Methods and Implementation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Girish Nath Jha (ed), 2010, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, proceedings of the 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Springer Verlag, Germany
