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 interest is in our capacity for language and its place in our mind. I try to figure out 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 the form of words and sentences, their meanings, and how said forms come to mean said things.

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.