Danslav Slavenskoj is a Slavicist and computational linguist whose work bridges historical linguistics and computational methods. He is developing language systems at Lingenic. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. At Harvard he studied Sanskrit with Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit.
At Dexter School in Brookline, MA (now Dexter-Southfield), he was invited to teach a programming class while still in the third grade. He is a former member of the Boston Computer Society.
His research focuses on Slavic historical linguistics, Glagolitic and Cyrillic paleography, and computational approaches to textual analysis. He is the creator of Slavenica (2008), a writing system translator for Slavic languages, and Slavensk (2026), a formal register of Proto-Slavic with restored Proto-Indo-European grammar.
In 2025, he created Buran, a programming language built around pattern transformation as its core computational model. Drawing on influences from Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī to Refal and Haskell, Buran targets computational linguistics, mathematical computing, and symbolic computation.
He also formalized HSV (Hierarchical Separated Values), an open data format and streaming protocol that uses ASCII control characters for structure instead of escaping, enabling parallel parsing at every data level. HSV was released to the public domain in January 2026.
