Mohan Ganesalingam

Overview

Gender
male

Obtaining the top first in the Mathematics Tripos (the ‘Senior Wrangler’) in 2001, Mohan indulged his passion for languages and completed an MA in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic where he won a university prize for the best results in the Cambridge English Faculty. He went on to do a PhD on “The Language of Mathematics”, winning the Europe-wide E. W. Beth Prize for outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. On the basis of this work, he was selected as a Research Fellow at Trinity, where he spent six years studying language and cognition. Mohan co-designed the what3words system and wrote the subsequent what3words AutoSuggest algorithm. When not working on what3words, Mohan enjoys volunteering with a variety of children’s projects around Cambridgeshire.

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Mohan Ganesalingam has 1 current jobs including Co-founder & Chief Research Officer at what3words , .
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