Ravi Shekhar
Lecturer at University of Essex
Colchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRavi Shekhar is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Essex and a member of its Artificial Intelligence Research Group, with 11 years of experience spanning academia and industry. His research focuses on conversational, multimodal and multilingual NLP, with particular strength in Low-Resource NLP and the intersection of social media and language technologies. He progressed from industry software engineering at Accenture to graduate and postdoctoral research roles at IIIT Hyderabad, University of Malaya and Queen Mary, bringing practical engineering discipline to rigorous empirical work. Ravi holds a PhD from Università di Trento and actively seeks industry collaborations and PhD students to translate research into real-world systems. Less obvious: he combines deep multilingual modeling with social-media signal analysis, enabling NLP solutions that work across languages and noisy, real-world data.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Università di TrentoMaster of Science (M.S.) by Research, Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) by Research, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology HyderabadMaster of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Calicut
Hindi, English
Github Skills (28)
tuple7
terminology7
katakana7
thai7
french7
corpus-linguistics6
wordnet6
machine-learning6
spanish6
semantics6
corpus6
linguistics6
paper5
deep-learning5
lda5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
foilUnitn/foilUnitn.github.io
Jun 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 37 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years 3 months
shekharRavi/shekharRavi.github.io
May 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years
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