Research

Projects I'm currently working on, and ones I've wrapped up.

Current Projects

Dependency Distance in Code-Mixing

2026 - Present

Studying dependency distance in code-mixed text, and what it reveals about the syntactic processing cost of switching languages mid-sentence.

A Multilingual fMRI/EEG Dataset for Indian English, Hindi, and Telugu

2026 - Present

Building a neuroimaging dataset spanning Indian English, Hindi, and Telugu, for studying language processing in the brain.

Reasoning Failures in Vision-Language Models

2025 - Present

Investigating where and why vision-language models break down on multi-step reasoning tasks.

Past Projects

Adapting Multilingual Models to Code-Mixed Tasks via Model Merging

2024 - 2025

Investigating effective utilization of unlabeled code-mixed datasets and monolingual resources via model merging.

  • Collaboration with Max Planck Institute, MBZUAI, and IIIT Hyderabad
  • Accepted at CODS-IKDD 2025