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Tyler Neill is an experienced Sanskrit philologist and teacher. A Harvard graduate with an MA in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, he earned his doctorate in Sanskrit and Digital Humanities at Leipzig University, Germany. He is currently Technical Director of the Muktabodha Digital Library at the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute. He is fluent in English, German, Italian, and Sanskrit, and familiar with several other languages.

Driven by a deep interest in Sanskrit and its literature, Tyler aims to "do research that feels authentic, concrete, and exciting to share with the academic community." That spirit of sharing has led him to many projects in Sanskrit education and digital text resources. His doctoral dissertation, Intertextual Readings of the Nyāyabhūṣaṇa on Buddhist Anti-Realism, grew into a set of projects. These include his intertextuality research system Vātāyana, Skrutable, Pramana NLP, the modeling of Pramāṇa texts and Sanskrit NLP corpus building, and Pāṇḍitya, a tool for visualizing Sanskrit intellectual networks. Details and examples appear on his Digital Sanskrit Projects page.

Tyler is currently involved with HANSEL (Human-Accessible, NLP-ready, Sanskrit E-text Library), a companion to GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages) that focuses on Indological texts. He is also developing the broader Sāgarasaṅgama, or Meeting of the E-Text Oceans, which covers mainly Sanskrit texts. As a result, he has built Atlas systems for navigating online text collections: the E-bharatisampat Atlas for ebharatisampat.in, the Sanskrit Documents Atlas for sanskritdocuments.org, and an Atlas for Sanskrit Wikisource (sa.wikisource.org). Each comes with a discussion of the site's strengths and weaknesses and navigation details to help improve it.

His blog, Kalpataru Diaries, covers many Sanskrit-related activities, including a roundup of Sanskrit tech tools and a collection of useful Sanskrit links from the Sanskrit Samvadah community.