‘Was Ahead Of His Time’: Professor To NDTV On Trump’s Indian-Origin Pick For AI [Video]

Chennai/New Delhi:

Indian-origin genius Sriram Krishnan, who has been appointed senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence in the incoming Trump administration, was ahead of his time when he was in college, Mr Krishnan’s professor Dr G Vadivu told NDTV.

Dr Vadivu is head of department of science and big data in Tamil Nadu’s SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST).

“He (Mr Krishnan) learned a lot and he got interested in computing languages. He learned the Python programming language on his own and shared his knowledge with the faculty like me. These are new languages useful for new technologies like artificial intelligence and data science,” Dr Vadivu told NDTV.

“While it was too early for us to know about artificial intelligence, he was into that kind of parallel programming and distributed computing with Python. We are very happy to know that he is into that career path from his undergraduate period till …