Paul Hackett

Paul G. Hackett received his PhD in 2008 from Columbia University, where he focused on Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tantra and its influence on American culture. He also received a M.L.S. degree from College of Information Studies, University of Maryland - College Park, where he focused on natural language processing for Tibetan in support of information retrieval. He worked as an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and as a Lecturer in Classical Tibetan at Columbia University and Yale University until 2016. He is the architect and editor of the Buddhist Canons Research Database (BCRD) http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/. His primary fields of research are textual research in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, and Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan culture, as well as the influence of the latter on contemporary alternative religion in America. He is also active in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing of Asian languages. He is the author of A Catalogue of the Comparative Kangyur (bka' 'gyur dpe bsdur ma) (2013), Learning Classical Tibetan: A Reader for Translating Buddhist Texts (2019), and A Tibetan Verb Lexicon (2003, 2019). A full listing of his books and articles is available on his academic web site, http://www.columbia.edu/~ph2046/RnD/Hackett/. In September 2019, after the passing of the first developer of the DDB and CJKV-E, Michael Beddow, Paul took over to handle the back end programming and server management of project.

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