--- title: "Menan Velayuthan — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Menan Velayuthan, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menan-velayuthan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menan-velayuthan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Menan Velayuthan # Menan Velayuthan Menan Velayuthan has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kengatharaiyer-sarveswaran/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004264684) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004264684) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004264684) · [12 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004264684&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menan-velayuthan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 12 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menan-velayuthan/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9710](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/98/#star-9710) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Menan+Velayuthan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Menan+Velayuthan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Menan+Velayuthan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Menan+Velayuthan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Utrecht University** Utrecht · Netherlands 2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-university/) · [🎓**University of Applied Sciences Utrecht** Utrecht · Netherlands 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/028z9kw20) · [🎓**University of Moratuwa** Moratuwa · Sri Lanka 2024–2025 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-moratuwa/) · [🎓**Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology** Colombo · Sri Lanka 2022–2025 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/00fhk4582) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menan-velayuthan/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menan-velayuthan/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Egalitarian Language Representation in Language Models: It All Begins with Tokenizers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/velayuthan-2025-egalitarian-language-representation-language-models/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Tokenizers from English-centric LLMs handle complex abugida scripts such as Tamil, Sinhala and Hindi poorly. 2. **[Evaluating Linguistic Knowledge of LLMs in Tamil: The ILAKKANAM Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/varsha-2026-evaluating-linguistic-knowledge-llms-tamil/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Tamil is agglutinative and computationally low-resource, yet LLM evaluation for it relies mostly on multilingual suites that are often translated from English or cover few phenomena. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Egalitarian Language Representation in Language Models: It All Begins with Tokenizers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/velayuthan-2025-egalitarian-language-representation-language-models/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Menan Velayuthan, Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran*2025 · 11 citations* 2. **[Evaluating Linguistic Knowledge of LLMs in Tamil: The ILAKKANAM Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/varsha-2026-evaluating-linguistic-knowledge-llms-tamil/) [workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chipsal/)**Jeyarajalingam Varsha, Menan Velayuthan, Sumirtha Karunakaran, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 3. **[EnSiTa - A Trilingual Multi-Domain Parallel Dataset and Benchmark for Domain-Specific Machine Translation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29511) arXiv:2609.29511 · no summary yet**Surangika Ranathunga et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kengatharaiyer-sarveswaran/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chipsal/): [workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chipsal/2026/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menan-velayuthan/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026