Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran
Honorary DAAD Research Ambassador at University of Jaffna
Jaffna, Northern Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolKengatharaiyer Sarveswaran is a computational linguist and senior lecturer in computer science with 11 years of experience advancing NLP and e-learning in Sri Lanka, focused on computational morphology, syntactic parsing, and treebanking for Tamil and other low-resource languages. He combines academic research—PhD-trained with postdoctoral and visiting research stints at the University of Konstanz—with hands-on systems work as an LMS and systems administrator, helping universities deploy and run Moodle and other digital learning platforms. As a DAAD Honorary Research Ambassador and founding member of Yarl IT Hub, he promotes international research collaboration and local tech capacity-building across academia and industry. He has a track record of grammar engineering and corpus linguistics instruction using Python, and uniquely pairs deep linguistic expertise with practical software/system administration skills that enable scalable language resource development.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of PeradeniyaGrade 10 - 13, Grade 10 - 13 at St' Anthony's College, KandyJunior Pandit (Tamil), Tamil Language and Literature, Junior Pandit (Tamil), Tamil Language and Literature at Ariya Thiravida Bashapiviruthy Sangam, Department of Education, Northern Province, Sri Lanka.Grade 7 - 10, Grade 7 - 10 at Jaffna Hindu CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Moratuwa
English, Tamil, Sinhala
Github Skills (38)
corenlp10
sentence9
artificial-intelligence9
javascript9
named-entity-recognition9
pytorch9
python9
natural-language-processing9
documentation9
kebab-case9
nlp9
roberta8
sentence-similarity8
deep-learning8
text-processing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sarves/thamizhi-morph
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 release, 101 commits, 100 pushes in 1 year 10 months
sarves/thamizhi-preprocessor
Feb 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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