Keynote/Invited talks

• “AI for Science and Society” – A presidential address at 30th Annual Scientific Sessions, Jaffna Science Association, 28 – 30 June 2024
• “Building Tamil Treebanks” – keynote address at the International Conference on Tamil Computing and Information Technology to be held at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA, on June 14-16, 2024.
• Invited talk titled "Building Tamil Computational Resources" at the annual meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany, on May 16, 2024.
• Keynote address titled "Tamil Computing and the Way Forward" at the KaniTamil organized by the Tamil Virtual Academy, Tamil Nadu Government, India, on February 9, 2024.
• Seminar talk titled "Building a Tamil Dependency Treebank" at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, on November 29, 2023.
• Seminar talk titled "Building Tamil Computational Resources" (together with Prof. Miriam Butt) at the University of Hamburg, Germany, on December 5, 2023. (Virtual)
• Keynote address titled "An Overview of Natural Language Processing" at the IEEE Summer School in Computational Intelligence, Sri Lanka, held from July 12-14, 2023.
• Chairperson address titled "Tamil Language Computing: The Present and the Future" at the 29th Annual Sessions of the Jaffna Science Association, held from March 29-31, 2023.
• Keynote address titled "Incubation: Intersection of Academia and Entrepreneurship" at FiTEN Sacramento 2023 and the 36th Annual FeTNA Convention, Sacramento, California, USA, on June 30, 2023.
• Invited talk titled "Developing Syntactic Parsers for Tamil" in the lecture series organized by Tamil Mozhiyiyal Sangam, India, on March 27, 2021. (Virtual)
• Colloquium talk titled "Tamil Morphology" at the Research Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany, in October 2019.
• அறிவுருவாக்கப் பண்பாட்டுத் தளத்தில் தமிழ் இணையம், தமிழ் விழா – பொன்விழா, திருமறைக் கலாமன்றம் – 2015

International Schools

• "The Challenges of Processing South Asian Languages," 2024 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, to be held from July 29, 2024, to August 9, 2024, at the Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium (together with Tafseer Ahmed).
• "An Overview of Natural Language Processing," 2023 IEEE CIS Summer School on Computational Intelligence: Theory and Applications, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, July 12-14, 2023.

Masters

University of Konstanz, Germany.

• Grammar Engineering for Masters in Speech and Language Processing programme (2024) (Together with Dr. Mark-Matthias Zymla).
• Corpus Linguistics with Python for Masters in Speech and Language Processing programme (2024) (Together with Sergio Eugenio Zanotto).
• Challenges for NLP from South Asian languages for Masters in Speech and Language Processing programme (2023) (Together with Dr. Tafseer Ahmed).

University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

• ICT Skills for Masters in Business Administration programme (2016-) (Together with Dr. E.Y.A. Chalres).

Bachelors

Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

• Systems and Network Administration
• Data Communication and Computer Networks
• Computer System Administration
• Introduction to Computer Security and Cryptography
• Computer Networks and Internet Computing
• Practical Computing – I
• Database Management Systems
• Cryptography and Data Security
• Software Engineering
• e-Technologies
• Practical Computing – II
• Rapid Application Development
• Practical Computing – III

Department of Linguistcs and English, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

• Computational Linguistics (2024).

Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

• ICT and Society (2014, 2015).
• Introduction to ICT (2014).

Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

• Networking and Web Designing in Business (2014,2015,2016).
• Information System and Security Management (2016)

Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

• Methodology of Teaching ICT (2022).

Open University, University of Moratuwa, Eastern University of Sri Lanka, and Advanced Technological Institute, Sri Lanka.

• ICT Skills, Open University of Sri Lanka, January 2014 – March 2014.
• Server Management, Final year general degree programme, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, 2013-2014.
• Server Management and Computer Networks, Final year general degree programme, Department of Computer Science, Trincomalee Campus of the Eastern University, Sri Lanka, 2012-2013.
• Web Development, Advanced Technological Institute, Kurunagar, Jaffna, 2011.
• Computer Networks, Online BIT degree programme, University of Moratuwa, 2010-2011.
• Linux Server Administration, WinSYS Networks, Colombo 2, 2010.
• Computer Networks, Online BIT degree programme, University of Moratuwa, 2007-2011.

Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran