Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan is a Research Assistant at Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland, from Feb 2023. Prasanna completed his master’s degree (MSc in computer science in Machine Intelligence) at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, India, from 2020 to 2022 and completed his undergraduate Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) at Guru Nanak College, Velachery, Tamil Nadu, India. Before joining Insight, he contributed to various research projects, such as Sentiment Analysis, Offensive/Abusive Language, Hate Speech, Homophobia/Transphobia, etc., on Dravidian languages in the domain of Natural Language Processing. He has published multiple international conference papers (LDK, FIRE, etc.) and highly reputed journal papers (LRE, CSL). Also, he organized numerous shared tasks related to social media text analysis in the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) and the European Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021). In 2023, he organizing shared tasks in LT-EDI and DravidianLangTech at RANLP. He has an h-index of 08, an i10-index of 08, and citations of 316 from Google Scholar as of 2022.
