Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Ganesh Ramakrishnan’s journey spans academia, industry, and national impact. After earning his PhD from IIT Bombay in 2004, he joined IBM Research India, where he worked on scalable information extraction systems. In 2009, he returned to IIT Bombay as an assistant professor, rising through the ranks to a full professorship in 2019. Throughout the 2010s, Ramakrishnan led projects in statistical relational learning, feature induction and machine translation. His work underpinned tools like Sandhan (an Indic‐language search engine), BET for inductive logic programming, and Udaan, a translation engine for technical content in Indian languages. In 2024, Udaan evolved into Udaan Project, licensed to Bharat Bhasha Tech, breaking language barriers in education. Today, he leads BharatGen, a government‑backed, open‑source, multilingual and multimodal foundation model initiative launched in September 2024. BharatGen aims to produce inclusive, data‑efficient AI models tailored to India’s cultural and linguistic diversity, built atop pipelines from Udaan and powered by Bharat Data Sagar and AIKosha. Beyond research, he serves as Bank of Baroda chair professor in digital entrepreneurship, heads IITB’s Koita Centre for Digital Health, and mentors PhDs focused on data‑efficient learning.