AVATANS KUMAR's brief resume

Education

MA: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
MBA: Webster University, St. Louis.

Work Experience

IT and Management consultant since 2003.
Software Developer in the financial industry 1998-2003.
Taught Hindi at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Worked as a freelance journalist for various newpapers and magazines in India.
Edited internet-based Hindi magazines

Research Experience

Computational Linguistics: Artificial Intelligentce, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition.

Sociolinguistics: Language variation, World Englishes, Discourse Analysis, South Asian Linguistics, Language of religion Indian Grammatical Tradition Hindi language and literature.

Computer Skills Programming experience Java, C, C++, Perl, Prolog, LISP, HTML, FAME/4GL Proficient in UNIX and Windows environment. Languages Proficient in Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri and some Sanskrit Honors Recepient of the Henry Kahane Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant (1998) by the University of Illinois. Named to the list of Outstanding/Excellent Teachers (Spring 1996, Fall 1996 and Fall 1997) at the University of Illinois. Recepient of Merit Scholarship from Jawaharlal Nehru University Activities Member of the Board Of Directors of a not-for-profit organization (2005 -present) Captained University of Illinois cricket club (1997-98) Organizing Member of a National Seminar on Indian languages (JNU, New Delhi, 1993) Social/Cultural chair of the Indian Students Association of the University of Illinois (1995-1996) Member of the Student-Faculty Committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (1991-1992)