V.S.D.S. Mahesh Akavarapu

I have defended my 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 work on Low Resource Natural Language Understanding in case of Sanskrit using LLMs. (Research Statement)

I shall be soon joining Prof. Gerhard Jäger’s project Phylomilia as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Tübingen starting from December.