V.S.D.S. Mahesh Akavarapu
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of General and Computational Linguistics, University of Tübingen

R. 158, Keplerstraße 2
Tübingen 72074
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Jäger at University of Tübingen working on Speech processing for Historical Linguistic applications.
Previously, I did PhD in Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where I had worked in Computational Linguitics under the supervision of Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya. During my PhD, I developed algorithms for several Computational Historical Linguistic problems namely phonological reconstruction, cognate detection and statistical testing of genetic relationship among languages employing language models and other techiniques largely inspired by Evolutionary Biology. I also worked on Low Resource Natural Language Understanding in case of Sanskrit using LLMs. (Research Statement)
selected publications
- ThesisEvolutionary Insights Into Language Change: Cognate Transformer and Phylogenetic Testing in Historical LinguisticsIn PhD Theses - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , Jun 2024