Speaker Vinodh Rajan

Vinodh Rajan is a computer scientist with a great interest in writing systems. After working as a software engineer in India for three years, Rajan left to pursue a PhD in Digital Paleography at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and currently works as a researcher at the University of Hamburg in Germany. Rajan’s research interests include handwriting quantification, machine transliteration, and digital humanities. In his own time, he works on providing computational support to minority and historic writing systems and contributes to their outreach efforts.