Avashlin Moodley
Acting Research Group Leader Natural Language Processing
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolAvashlin Moodley is an experienced AI and NLP leader with 11 years building production-ready machine learning, augmented reality and big-data solutions across research and industry. Currently Acting Research Group Leader for NLP at CSIR, he leads a 12-person R&D team, drives technology transfer into the private sector and shapes strategic research agendas that target social and economic impact. His background spans hands-on product delivery—from Vodacom’s TOBi NLU platform to real-time gas monitoring and AR systems—combining research rigour (MSc cum laude in Big Data Science) with operational execution. Preferring a polyglot approach to tooling rather than narrow specialization, he integrates diverse technologies to solve complex problems and mentors talent across multidisciplinary teams. Notably, he pairs public-sector impact focus with a proven track record of moving prototypes into industry-adopted solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of KwaZulu-NatalUniversity of South AfricaUniversity of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
woefzela/woefzela
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 commits in 8 days
avashlin/dynamic-nmf
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Dynamic Topic Modeling via Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Contributions:10 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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