A computer scientist who writes for the silver screen, and a poet who builds language technology — bridging Tamil's two-thousand-year literary heritage with the digital age.
From a PhD in sensor networks at the University of Queensland to founding the Karky Research Foundation, a life spent teaching machines to understand Tamil.
Doctoral research on wireless sensor networks under Dr. Maria Orlowska and Dr. Shazia Sadiq, published across international conferences. Preceded by an M.Sc. by Research graded High Distinction (7/7).
Taught Computer Science, co-ordinated the Tamil Computing Lab, and guided research in Tamil NLP before leaving to pursue research and cinema full-time.
13+ years of research in language computing and Tamil literacy — publishing research and building tools that put Tamil within everyone's reach.
Published in international venues — from morphological analysis and lyric generation frameworks to word-game scoring models and text-to-speech for Tamil.
Honoured for contributions to Tamil language technology and culture.
"The world's easiest way to learn the world's oldest living language."
Education, music and language technology — ventures built to carry Tamil to the next generation, from classrooms in Tamil Nadu to learners in 35+ countries.
One of the earliest Tamil ed-tech ventures. Creator of the iPaatti series — Tamil song books, stories, word games and sentence games for children.
An online music platform championing Tamil independent music — discovery, distribution and data-driven recommendation for indie artists, film and television.
Built on 13+ years of KaReFo research: the Payil curriculum, textbooks and online courses, taking systematic Tamil literacy to schools and the global diaspora.
Digital Tamil learning labs deployed across 25+ partner schools with 7,000+ active learners — six modules spanning reading, writing, songs, movement and conversation.
Co-founded a CTV technology company turning streaming ads into measurable interactive experiences — powering interactive video and real-time intent signals across CTV, web and mobile without changing your stack.
A thousand songs and counting. Since Enthiran in 2010, the pen behind some of Tamil cinema's biggest blockbusters — as lyricist, dialogue writer and technical adviser.
Debut as lyricist with Irumbile — also co-wrote dialogues and served as technical adviser, lending scientific precision to one of India's biggest sci-fi blockbusters.
Tamil lyrics and dialogues for the epic two-part saga that redefined Indian cinema's scale.
Crossed a thousand songs across 400+ Tamil films in just fifteen years.