Dr. Kamal Kumar Choudhary is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. Dr. Choudhary completed his Ph.D. from Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany/ University of Leipzig, Germany. Before joining IIT Ropar, he worked as a visiting faculty at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India. Dr. Choudhary is a linguist and cognitive scientist and works in the area of the neurophysiology of language comprehension. Currently, his research focuses on ergative languages. To know more about his research and project activities, visit the webpage of Language and Cognition Lab
Ph.D. (Linguistics), Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany/ University of Leipzig, Germany, 2010.
M. Phil (Linguistics), University of Delhi, India, 2005.
PG Diploma in English-Hindi Translation, University of Delhi, India, 2002.
M.A(Linguistics), University of Delhi, India, 2001.
B.A (Hons. In English ), LNM University Darbhanga, Bihar, India, 1998.
1. Language and Cognition: Electrophysiology of Language Comprehension, Amity School of Languages, Amity University Gurugram, June 23, 2020 (Online Talk, Webinar)
2. Neurolinguistics: Language Processing in the Brain, Department of Linguistics, Central University of Kerala July 7, 2020. (Online talk, Webinar).
3. Neurolinguistics: Scope and Challenges in India. Department of HSS, IIT Kharagpur, June 2, 2020 (online talk, Webinar).
4. Recent trends and challenges in human language and cognition. IIIT Raipur (11th Feb 2020)
5. Cross-linguistic variation in the processing of case and agreement. Workshop on Approaches to Language Variation, 22-23 February, 2019, IIT Delhi
6. Introduction to Neurolinguistics & Neurophysiology of language comprehension. BITS Pilani ( 25th August 2018)
7. Current trends in Psycholinguistics. Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics. IIT BHU, Varanasi (4-11th June 2018)
8. Language Across the Mind and Brain: Theoretical and Experimental Progresses in Psycho/Neurolinguistics. Workshop on Language, Mind and Brain. Department of HSS, IIT Patna, 19-20 August 2017.
9. Current trends in Neurolinguistics. Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics. HSS, IIT Delhi (9-15th July 2017)
10. Universal Mechanism of Language Comprehension: Evidence from Indian Languages. 3rd International Conference on Cognition, Brain and Computation at IIT Gandhinagar, 5-7 December 2015.
11. Verbal Morphology in Maithili (Regional Symposium on Natural Language Processing (regICON-2015) at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, 21st-22nd March 2015.
12. Language in the brain (Ninth Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India, IIT Delhi, 14th-15th March 2015).
13. Natural Language Processing (Worksop/ Training programme on natural Language Processing at the Department of Punjabi, Punjab University Chandigarh. Organised by CIIL Mysore from 15th -21st January 2014).
14. Ambiguity resolution: Computational and Psycholinguistic perspectives (Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computation @ International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, 18-20 December 2013, VHNSN College, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu.
15. Brain and Language (Class lecture, HUL234: Language and Communication) department of HSS, IIT Delhi, November 8, 2013.
16. The electrophysiology of language comprehension: some contemporary issues (International Symposium on Advances in Language-Cognition Research, 30th October 2013, Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad.
17. Experimental approach to Case. The Faculty of Language: Current themes in Language Sciences workshop organised by the department of HSS, IIT Delhi, 29 to 30 March, 2013.
18. Bridging the Gap between theoretical and experimental Linguistics. Language faculty: Design and interfaces, workshop organised by the department of HSS, IIT Delhi, 11 to 12 Feb, 2013.
19. Incremental language processing: Electrophysiological evidence from Hindi. CFILT, IIT Bombay ( 2nd May 2012).
20. Inflectional Morphology in Maithili. Lecture-cum-workshop on POS-Morph: Urdu-Hindi and Maithili, LDC-IL, CIIL Mysore (19th to 21st September 2011).
21. Processing case and word-order. National workshop On machine translation: from Lab to Users. CDAC Noida (20-21st July 2011)
22. The Role of case and word-order in incremental argument interpretation: Neurophysiological evidence from Hindi. Department of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 16th March 2010.