Who Am I?

Hi I'm Jivnesh Sandhan., a fifth-year Ph.D. scholar at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, and a recipient of the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) scholarship. My research supervisor is Dr. Laxmidhar Behera. I completed my dual degree in Mathematics and Scientific Computing at IIT Kanpur in 2018.

My research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, with the goal of facilitating access to Sanskrit literature for pedagogical and annotation purposes. To this end, I have developed deep-learning-based solutions for various downstream tasks in Sanskrit. The outcomes of my work are publicly available on a web-based platform called SanskritShala. Currently, my research delves into the aesthetic aspect of Sanskrit poetry from the perspective of computational linguistics.