Who is Mitesh Khapra? IIT professor honoured by TIME magazine along with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg for…
Madras Professor Mitesh Khapra is on the list of 100 most influential people in AI of Time Magazine. The magazine honored Khapra by accepting his work and saying that he was researching AI for a significant contribution.
Professor of Madras was honored by MITESH Khapra Time Magazine
It is synonymous with the prestige in global magazines, and status is a sign of success in addition to the most powerful names such as Openai’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and Elon Musk makes this success even more special. IIt Madras professor Martesh Khapra is on the list of 100 most influential people in AI of Time Magazine. The magazine honored Khapra by accepting his work and saying that his research was “reshaping his nation’s academic research” in AI.
Why was Martesh Khapra honored by Time Magazine?
Khapra is an associate professor in IIt Madras at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is not the founder of any AI company, but his work and research is of great importance because it affects and affects the lives of the Iitans who want to renew employees in the AI world, AI world, AI, or in the world’s best AI companies.
Martesh’s work focused on making AI accessible in Indian languages, as advanced technology is often limited to English language. To achieve this, Khapra founded AI4BHARAT, a research laboratory, which works to create open -source tools and data clusters to instill Indian languages in AI in Madras. The AI4Bharat initiative has focused on improving AI technology for Indian languages through open source environments.
How does AI4bharat work?
The project collected speech data from various regions in India and collected resources that enable AI systems to work much more easily in local languages. Thanks to this effort, India’s dependence on English -based AI models has greatly reduced. AI4BARAT has created great opportunities for students and researchers who want to address Indian -specific problems or want to address them through AI.
In 2019, Martesh Khapra founded AI4BARAT, which also contributed to the government’s Bhashini mission, and its purpose is to make it available in Indian languages using Digital Services AI. According to Khapra, even if global technology companies work with these clusters to ensure that their models work in Indian languages such as Hindi or Marathi, the effort will benefit the country.
