7th ISCLS Interviews - Peter Scharf, The Sanskrit Library
Peter Scharf earned his doctorate in Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he taught Sanskrit at Brown University for 19 years and conducted research on the linguistic, philosophical, and Vedic traditions of India. He is visiting Professor at the Maharishi International University Research Institute, International Blaise Pascal Research Chair at the University of Paris Diderot, Visiting Professor in the Department of Sanskrit Studies at the University of Hyderabad, Visiting Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Visiting Professor in the Language Technologies Research Center at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, Fellow at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla. He is currently the director of the Sanskrit Library (sanskritlibrary.org), an international digital Sanskrit library which he founded in 2002, and Adjunct Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad. He is now developing a computational implementation of Pāṇinian grammar based on an XML formalization of the entire Aṣṭādhyāyī he completed in 2016, and is investigating the use of Pāṇinian models of verbal cognition in computational syntax.
Peter Scharf earned his doctorate in Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he taught Sanskrit at Brown University for 19 years and conducted research on the linguistic, philosophical, and Vedic traditions of India. He is visiting Professor at the Maharishi International University Research Institute, International Blaise Pascal Research Chair at the University of Paris Diderot, Visiting Professor in the Department of Sanskrit Studies at the University of Hyderabad, Visiting Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Visiting Professor in the Language Technologies Research Center at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, Fellow at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla. He is currently the director of the Sanskrit Library (sanskritlibrary.org), an international digital Sanskrit library which he founded in 2002, and Adjunct Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad. He is now developing a computational implementation of Pāṇinian grammar based on an XML formalization of the entire Aṣṭādhyāyī he completed in 2016, and is investigating the use of Pāṇinian models of verbal cognition in computational syntax.