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Kishore kumar Ponnusamy

@kishorekumarponnusam

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NLP and ML researcher focused on multilingual/social-media text analysis and model development.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek NLP/ML roles focused on multilingual or low-resource social-media text, where I can build datasets, improve model performance, and contribute to research-driven product development in collaborative teams.

I am a machine intelligence researcher specializing in natural language processing, with hands-on experience building datasets and deploying transformer and sentence-transformer models for multilingual and code-mixed social media text.

I have led projects on political sentiment analysis of Tamil tweets, homophobia/transphobia detection in Tamil and Malayalam, sarcasm identification for Dravidian languages, and few-shot/zero-shot approaches for low-resource languages, producing reproducible models and interactive demos.

My work includes multiple shared-task contributions and peer-reviewed publications; I prioritize robust evaluation (macro F1 improvements), practical tooling (Streamlit apps), and collaborative research across international teams.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Remote Research Intern

Central University of Tamil Nadu

Feb 2025 - May 2025 (3 months)

Created a custom dataset of Tamil tweets focused on political content and implemented multilingual transformers, sentence transformers, and large language models to classify tweets into political sentiment categories during a remote research internship.

Data Collection Transformers Large Language Models Python NLP

Research Intern

Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering

May 2023 - Oct 2023 (5 months)

Conducted research on sarcasm identification for Dravidian languages as part of DravidianCodeMix@FIRE-2023, developing models and evaluation pipelines for code-mixed social media text.

Sarcasm Identification Code Mixed NLP Python Machine Learning Evaluation PyTorch Transformers

Research Intern

University of Galway

Jul 2022 - Sep 2022 (2 months)

Worked on sarcasm identification for Dravidian languages (Malayalam and Tamil) contributing to the DravidianCodeMix dataset and model development.

Sarcasm Detection NLP Python scikit learn PyTorch Code Mixed Language Processing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Digital University Kerala

Master of Science, Computer Science (Machine Intelligence)

2023 -

Activities and societies: 4th semester internship thesis: Political Multiclass Sentiment Analysis of Tamil X Tweets; volunteer for related shared tasks and conferences.

Pursuing M.Sc. in Computer Science with specialization in Machine Intelligence, focusing on multilingual NLP and transformer-based models as part of thesis and research projects.