Tirumala P Kulkarni, a PhD in Dvaitavedānta, is a pioneering young scholar, who is highly regarded for his contribution to the field of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. He presently works as a professor in Poornaprajna Vidyapeetha Sanskrit College, Bengaluru and teaches Dvaitavedānta, Navyanyāya and Alaṇkāraśāstra. He is a member of the team developing tagged corpora and Sanskrit grammatical toolkits for the SHMT Project of Government of India, and is known for designing innovative courseware for Practical Sanskrit. This course has the potential to change the scenario of teaching Sanskrit. He has been awarded with the prestigious Vidyamanyaprashasti.