I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India. I am associated with the Cognitive Science program at IIT Delhi.
My research is situated in the areas of Linguistics and Cognitive Science. I am interested in how humans acquire, comprehend and produce language. I am also interested in exploring how insights from cognitive science can inform learning and pedagogy. My research group investigates these areas (with a special focus on South-Asian languages) using behavioral, corpus-based as well as computational methods.
To know more about my research group see here. To know more about my group's recent research work see here.
At IIT Delhi I teach courses to undergraduates and postgraduates in the areas of linguistics, cognitive science, statistics, and psycholinguistics; for more details see here.
I am looking for bright and hard-working graduate/postgraduate/undergraduate students who would like to work in the domains mentioned below:
- Language communication (comprehension/production/dialogue) in Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Austroasiatic languages,
- Interaction of language processing and other domains of cognition (e.g., attention, vision, memory, etc.),
- Cognitive Science and Education
News
- SAFAL 2026: The 7th edition of the The South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language will be held at the University of Hyderabad from 10th to 11th December 2026. It will be collocated with the 13th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science. Abstract submission opens on 1st June!!
- EEL 2026: The 4th edition of the Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics will happen at IIT Kanpur from July 1-5, 2026. Application still open!!
- New abstract on our effort to create eye-tracking data for various Indian languages. This effort is lead by Nayana Raj. (More details)
- New paper: lead by Pranab Bagartti; Effect of case markers during agreement production: A model comparison using Armenian forced choice data. (More details)
- New paper: lead by Eashani and Ishita; Determinants of Hesitation and Disfluency in Hindi Spontaneous Speech. (More details)
- New Paper: lead by Ishita; Production Efficiency in Written Hindi Falsehoods. (More details)
- Mudafia Zafar's dissertation was conferred with the Distinction in Doctoral Research award by IIT Delhi for the year 2025. This award is given to 10% of the graduates in a particular year.
Last updated: 30 April, 2026
