Our Team
Meet the dedicated researchers advancing our understanding of language and cognition.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Anindita Sahoo
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras | Faculty PI at CeRAI, IIT Madras
Research Interests: Linguistic Typology, Syntax, Pragmatics, Language Processing, Eye-tracking, Cognition Studies
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IIT Madras
CeRAICurrent Researchers
PhD Scholars
Aziza Said Hussein
PhD in Progress
Copula in Swahili: Pragmatic Functions and Grammaticalization Process
Snigdha Medhi
PhD in Progress
Patterns of Ergativity in Assamese, and Its Varieties
Nayana Rajan
PhD in Progress
Research Project Staff
Suguna SG
Research Associate
Alumni
PhD Scholars
Krishna Raj SR
IDRP Scholar (Graduated in 2026) – Co-guided with Prof. Srinivasa Chakravarthy
From pixels to prepositions: Linking Vision and Spatial Prepositions
Scherezade Dastur
Graduated in 2025
Code Alternation in Parsi Gujarati and English: An Interactional Linguistics Approach
Gunti Prem Sagar
Graduated in 2025
Syntactic Patterns of Non-Verbal Predication in Select Dravidian Languages
Pratiti Palit
Graduated in 2023
On the Interaction of Honorification, Copula and Definiteness: A Variationist Approach
G L Vijayavani
IDRP Scholar (PhD in progress) - Co-guiding with Prof. Preeti Aghalayam
Identifying Gender Bias in Indian Academic Institutional Communication: A Dual Approach Using Text Analysis and Stakeholder Perception
Ruby George
Graduated in 2019, Co-guided by Prof. Umakant Dash
Persuasion in Public Service Advertising: Creating Changes Through Creative Strategies in the Print Media
Research Project Staff
Nayana Rajan
Field Investigator
Suchitra Chakrabarty
Field Investigator
Interns
Gadarla Ritesh Reddy
Project Intern
Saravanan Sathishkumar
Technical Intern
Dinesh S
Technical Intern
Harshita Verma
Technical Intern
Friends of LC Lab
Madhav Mittal
Co-scripted the nomenclature
Shobhith Vadlamudi
Co-conducted the first laboratory experiment
Gadarla Rohit Reddy
Co-designed the website
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