About me

I'm a PhD candidate at the Rutgers Department of Linguistics. In addition to the Linguistics PhD, I'm working towards a Cognitive Science certificate at the Rutgers Centre for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) and am also affiliated with the Rutgers South Asian Studies Program.

My primary research interest is in universal grammar, the genetic endowment of humans that lets us acquire and use language, and its place in our minds. I try to figure what the shape of this endowment should be given the ways in which languages vary, and the ways in which we use language. Most of my work is on morphosyntax—the form of words and sentences—and semantics—the meaning of said words and sentences.

During the 2023-24 academic year, I was in India on a junior fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, conducting fieldwork on Malto and Kurux (Dravidian), Mundari and Kharia (Austro-Asiatic), and Meiteilon (Tibeto-Burman).

Before coming to Rutgers, I got a degree each from BITS Pilani and JNU, New Delhi in that order.