Rohini Kesavan Srihari
| Rohini Kesavan Srihari | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mysore, Karnataka |
| Fields |
Computational Linguistics Information extraction Information retrieval |
| Alma mater |
University of Waterloo University at Buffalo |
| Known for | Founder of Janya Inc, Cymfony Inc and Cymfony Net Private Limited |
Rohini Kesavan Srihari is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Janya Inc., a high-technology company in Western New York. Prior to this she founded Cymfony Inc, which specializes in brand analytics. She also founded Cymfony Net Private Limited in Bangalore, India. She also holds a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.[1]
Early life and education
Rohini Srihari received her early education in Lansing, Michigan, Kanpur India and Waterloo, Ontario. She received an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Career
After serving for two years as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Canisius College, and as research scientist at the University at Buffalo for several years Rohini Srihari became an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She founded Cymfony Inc in Williamsville, NY in 1998, Cymfony Net Private Limited in Bangalore, India in 2000 and Janya Inc located in Amherst, NY and Washington DC in 2005.
Cymfony was among the first companies to apply information extraction technology to monitor the performance of brands by automatically analyzing press releases, media reports and blogs. This field has since come to be known as brand analytics. Cymfony was acquired by TNS Media Group which in turn was acquired by WPP Group. After the acquisition of Cymfony Inc by TNS Media Group Srihari founded Janya Inc.
Janya specializes in multi-lingual information extraction technology using English, Arabic, Urdu, Chinese and Russian. Janya received the Beta Star "for the entrepreneurial firm bringing unique, innovative products or services to the market that show promise of becoming a major economic force" given by Infotech-Niagara for 2007.[citation needed]
Rohini Srihari has published over 125 papers in Computer Science with a Google Scholar h-index of 29.
She was named to the Women of Accomplishment Legacy Project that identified "outstanding women of the 20th and 21st century who have touched Western New York with their genius, dedication and humanity and left a lasting legacy for the generations to come."[citation needed]
References
- ↑ "Rohini Srihari". University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Retrieved 25 September 2011.