Raj Reddy

Raj Reddy
Reddy in 1998
Born	Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy (1937-06-13) 13 June 1937 (age 87) Katur, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Andhra Pradesh, India)
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Madras (BE) University of New South Wales (MTech) Stanford University (PhD)
Awards	Legion of Honor (1984) Turing Award (1994) Padma Bhushan (2001) The Okawa Prize (2004) The Honda Prize (2005) Vannevar Bush Award (2006)
Scientific career
Fields	Artificial Intelligence Robotics Human-Computer Interaction
Institutions	IIIT Hyderabad[1][2] Carnegie Mellon University Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	John McCarthy
Doctoral students	James K. Baker Alexander Waibel James Gosling Janet M. Baker[3] Kai-Fu Lee[3] Xuedong Huang Roni Rosenfeld Harry Shum Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years.^[4] He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth. He was the founding chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He is the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award, in 1994, known as the Nobel Prize of Computer Science, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.