Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran
Honorary DAAD Research Ambassador at DAAD German Academic Exchange Service
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 PeradeniyaSt' 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 (35)
javascript10
stanza10
corenlp10
documentation10
artificial-intelligence9
named-entity-recognition9
python9
natural-language-processing9
segmentation9
parsing9
kebab-case9
nlp9
pos-tagger9
deep-learning8
text-processing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sarves/thamizhi-preprocessor
Feb 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes in 6 years 5 months
sarves/thamizhi-morph
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
ThamizhiMorph: A Tamil Morphological Analyser and Generator
Contributions:1 release, 101 commits, 104 pushes in 1 year 10 months
morphological-analysertamil-nlpmorphological-generatorfinite-state-transducersstanza
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