Gaurish Pandurang Thakkar earned his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Goa University in India in 2011. In 2015, he received his MA in Computer Science from Goa University in India. From 2011 to 2019, he worked in the IT industry as an application developer and data science engineer. He is currently employed as an Early-stage researcher for the CLEOPATRA project at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. His broad research interests include natural language processing and the creation of dataset resources. He had 12 research papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised four graduate theses. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.