Research Interests
- international relations of South Asia
- South Asian politics
- political communication
- natural language processing
Research Description
I am fascinated by the rich, dynamic, and sometimes "chaotic" information-ideology landscape in South Asia, particularly Pakistan and India, and have been trying to figure out how various political players, both domestic and international, secular and religious, historical and contemporary, disseminate information and ideas on foreign policy, armed conflict, etc., through traditional and new media platforms. Methodologically, I am equally passionate in both applying and innovating NLP methods and tools for processing text data in Urdu and Hindi.
Education
B.A., Political Science and Religion (Hons.), Dickinson College, PA
M.T.S., Religion and the Social Science, Harvard University, MA
M.A., South Asian Languages, The University of Chicago, IL