Gaurish Thakkar

Gaurish Pandurang Thakkar, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Senior Assistant at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He specialises in natural language processing (NLP) and data science, with a focus on cross-lingual sentiment analysis, dataset production, and the development of resources for under-resourced European languages, particularly large language models (LLMs). He obtained his PhD in computer science at the University of Zagreb with a thesis on sentiment analysis of the Slavic languages, and previously completed his Master’s degree in computer science at the University of Goa, India. Before his academic career, he worked as a software and data engineer in India, gaining experience in machine learning and system development. He has participated in several European research projects, including CLEOPATRA, ELE2, and HR-XR-XTEND, and has authored numerous papers on multilingual NLP, language resource development, and large language models. At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, he teaches a course in natural language processing and mentors students. He is multilingual (English, Konkani, Hindi, Marathi, Croatian) and internationally oriented. Through his work, Dr Thakkar seeks to strengthen the position of under-resourced languages in the digital age.

CV updated on 2025-09-17.