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Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan

Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan

PhD NLP researcher focusing on hate speech in under-resourced languages

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Galway, Ireland
Joined June 2026

Summary

Researcher focused on automated detection of homophobia and transphobia in social media, with emphasis on low-resource and Dravidian languages. His PhD work centers on dataset creation, annotation guidelines, and transformer-based baselines to identify identity-based harm and to support explainable, socially responsible AI. sciencedirect+2
Organizer and community-builder for shared tasks and evaluation campaigns (CodaLab / CodaBench / Dravidian shared tasks) that advance model development and benchmarking for hate speech, offensive language, and related NLP tasks in under-resourced languages. upsaclay+2
Active academic collaborator with a multi-author publication record across conferences and journals (LREC-COLING, RANLP, Natural Language Processing Journal, ACL workshops), contributing datasets, shared-task overviews, and studies on mitigation of non-inclusive language. google+2
PhD scholar affiliated with University of Galway and funded by CRT-AI / INSIGHT, combining institutional research roles (research assistant, teaching assistant) with contributions to datasets and shared tasks that support NLP for equality, diversity, and inclusion. crt-ai+2

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Participates in data science competitions and community on Kaggle. kaggle