Gaurish Thakkar
Assistant Professor at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Zagreb, Croatia
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Top SchoolGaurish Thakkar is an NLP-focused researcher and software engineer with 11 years of experience bridging applied development and academic research, currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb. He specializes in cross-lingual and low-resource sentiment analysis, combining CPU/GPU-aware engineering with multilingual language modeling and multimodal techniques. His trajectory spans industry roles in data science and speech/MT research (including work on Latvian ASR/MT and Twitter sentiment) and sustained doctoral research in Communication and Information Sciences. Comfortable shipping production systems as well as publishing research, he brings practical full-stack experience from earlier software engineering roles to complex NLP problems. Notably, he pairs hands-on hardware sensitivity (CPUs/GPUs) with a rare focus on underrepresented European languages, often leveraging cross-lingual transfer to overcome data scarcity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate, Communication and Information Sciences, Doctorate, Communication and Information Sciences at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuMaster of Technology (MTech), Computer Science, Master of Technology (MTech), Computer Science at Goa UniversityAccelarated diploma in .net, Computer Science, Accelarated diploma in .net, Computer Science at Seed InfotechBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Padre Conceicao College of Engineering Agnel Ashram VernaHigher Secondary School , Science, Higher Secondary School , Science at Smt.Parvatibai Chowgule Cultural Foundations College of Arts & Science FatordaSecondary school, Secondary school at Bhatikar model high school
English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Croatian
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Github Skills (200)
language-model10
sentence10
neural-network10
nlp10
data-science10
angularjs10
roberta10
scraper10
encoder-decoder10
deep-neural-networks10
bert10
speech-recognition10
python10
lora10
gpu-acceleration10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thak123/thak123.github.io
Jan 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:36 pushes in 5 years 4 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
cleopatra-itn/SentimentAnalyserLVTwitter
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Scripts for training and predicting sentiments of Latvian tweets. "Pretraining and Fine-Tuning Strategies for Sentiment Analysis of Latvian Tweets 2020"
Contributions:59 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 months
nlpsentimentspretrainingfinesentiment
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