Prasanna S
Senior Research Fellow at MAEER's Institute for Indic Knowledge Studies
Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolPrasanna S is a Senior Research Fellow and computational linguist with around 10 years of combined experience across software development and academic research, currently working at IIIT Hyderabad’s Language Technologies Research Center. He combines deep Sanskrit expertise (MA and ongoing PhD in Sanskrit Computational Linguistics) with practical engineering—building tools like a Complex Verb Form Generator and teaching students to model Sanskrit sandhi in Python. His roles span academia, curriculum design, and full‑stack web development, reflecting an ability to move between research prototypes and production websites. Based in Tamil Nadu, he has contributed to language learning platforms and curated educational content for Sanskrit learners. Pragmatic and curious, he pairs scholarly rigor with playful coding instincts (as hinted by his GitHub bio), making him effective at turning classical language theory into computational artifacts.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sanskrit (Sanskrit Computational Linguistics), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sanskrit (Sanskrit Computational Linguistics) at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College
Github Skills (166)
certification10
javascript10
application-management10
stock10
wxwidgets10
letter10
nodejs10
editing10
css10
codebase10
math10
mail-client10
react10
linux9
qif9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vipranarayan14/vchandas-web
May 2017 - Nov 2018
A Javascript frontend Sanskrit prosody parsing tool.
Contributions:4 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
javascript-frontendjavascriptparsingsanskritfrontend
vipranarayan14/aksharas-web
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
A web app for analysing the akṣaras and varṇas in a Devanagari text.
Contributions:57 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
devanagarinlpsyllablessanskrit-languagesyllabification
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