Shastri Mohapatra
Senior Research Scientist at Cerence AI
Telangana, India
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Top SchoolShastri Mohapatra is a Senior Research Scientist with eight years of experience at the intersection of computational linguistics, NLP/NLU, and intercultural communication. He progressed from long-term academic research at IIIT Hyderabad to applied roles across industry—ranging from language specialist and translator positions to computational linguist and senior engineering roles—now focused at Cerence AI. His background blends rigorous humanities training in Sanskrit and philosophy with technical PhD coursework in Computational Linguistics, enabling a rare ability to bridge linguistic theory and practical language technology. Shastri has hands-on experience shipping language solutions in commercial settings and mentoring language annotation and modeling efforts. He is comfortable working across multilingual pipelines and has a track record of adapting academic research for productized conversational AI. Colleagues value his deep domain knowledge and the unusual combination of classical scholarship with modern NLP engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, 7.5 CGPA (Withdrawn from the program), Master of Arts - MA, Applied Linguistics, A, M.A, Applied Linguistics, Sastri (Eq. to B.A), Sanskrit (Advaita Vedanta), intermediate, sanskrit, 10th, Board of secondary education, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, 7.5 CGPA (Withdrawn from the program), Master of Arts - MA, Applied Linguistics, A, M.A, Applied Linguistics, Sastri (Eq. to B.A), Sanskrit (Advaita Vedanta), intermediate, sanskrit, 10th, Board of secondary education at International Institute of Information Technology
University of Hyderabad
University of Hyderabad
Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha
Saraswati shishu mandir, puri
Odia, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Telugu, Bengali
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
shastri0911/language_communicator
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
sriram-c/communicator-tool
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 comments in 8 months
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