Oliver Hellwig
Researcher at University of Düsseldorf
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolOliver Hellwig is a researcher and computational Indologist based in Berlin with eight years of focused experience bridging classical Sanskrit scholarship and software development. He specializes in Ayurveda, Paninian grammar, and OCR for Indic scripts, having developed one of the early Sanskrit OCR tools and linguistic programs born out of doctoral research. His work combines traditional philology with computational and statistical modeling—projects include a GIS-enabled Indian palaeography database and computational models for Panini at the University of Düsseldorf. Hellwig has led DFG-funded research on the computational history of Indian medicine and modeled colonial-era Indo–English interactions, publishing widely and presenting at international conferences. Notably, his profile reflects a rare blend of deep humanities expertise and practical programming to create tools that address longstanding gaps in digital scholarship for Indian languages.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation, Indology, Habilitation, Indology at Freie Universität Berlin
Github Skills (5)
quantitative10
nlp10
corpus-linguistics10
javascript5
documentation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
OliverHellwig/sanskrit
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
Data for the quantitative study of (Vedic) Sanskrit
Contributions:41 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
nlpdataminingcorpus-linguisticsvedicsanskrit
sanskrit-texts/rigveda
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:14 commits in 3 days
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