Dr. Arjuna S R

Arjuna is an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) in the Department of Languages and Literature, Manipal Institute of Liberal Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Bengaluru. He holds a PhD in Navya-Nyāya and Sanskrit Computational Linguistics from the University of Hyderabad, awarded in 2017. As a Raman–Charpak Fellow in 2014, he pursued a research stint at INRIA, Paris, as part of his doctoral studies. He holds two Master's degrees in Navya-Nyaya and Sanskrit, and was awarded the Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Fellowship in 2018 to visit the Metropolitan University of Prague, Czechia.

His research has resulted in publications in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is the Coordinator of 'Centre for Digital Humanities'. He is currently a co-investigator of the MeitY-funded 'Sanskrit Knowledge Accessor' consortium project under the NLTM - Bhashini scheme, with a total outlay of ₹4.63 crore, in collaboration with seven other premier institutions.

His research interests span Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), Digital Humanities, Indian Philosophy, Indian Epics, and Sanskrit studies. His interdisciplinary work engages with Indian and Western logic, Sanskrit language pedagogy, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and computational approaches to classical texts. His research seeks to bridge India’s classical knowledge traditions with contemporary computational methods and Digital Humanities, contributing to the preservation, analysis, interpretation, and wider dissemination of Indian intellectual and textual traditions.