CV

Contact Information

Name Piyush Sarangi
Professional Title Student
Email piyushsarangi2013@gmail.com
Location Plot No 1026, Mahanadi Vihar, Cuttack, Odisha OD 753004

Professional Summary

My interests broadly lie in Computational Linguistics, Evolutionary Linguistics and Statistics

Education

  • 2023 - 2027

    Kharagpur, West Bengal

    Bachelor of Technology
    IIT Kharagpur
    Electrical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science and Engineering
  • 2020 - 2022

    Cuttack, Odisha

    Class XII
    LR DAV Public School
    Science
  • 2010 - 2020

    Cuttack, Odisha

    Class X
    LR DAV Public School
    Science

Awards

  • 2026
    Bronze Honour
    International Linguistics Challenge

    This is a Linguistics Problem solving competition open to all students

Skills

Linguistics (Undergraduate): Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics

Languages

Odia : Native speaker
Hindi : Near Native
Bengali : Intermediate
English : Fluent
Sanskrit : Beginner
German : Beginner

Interests

Linguistics: Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Typology
Statistics: Bayesian Inference, Markov Chains, Monte Carlo Simulations

Certificates

  • NYI Winter Intensive - The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies (2026)

Projects

  • Probably Prakrits - Learning sound change rules from data

    I try to learn the sound change rules from Sanskrit to Middle Indo-Aryan Languages through cognates

    • Created Sanskrit - Pali and Sanskrit - Prakrit Corpus in IPA based on various corpuses
    • Created a linguistically informed measure of cognacy based on Levenshtein distance using SoundVectors
  • Reduplication in Toto

    I tried to learn the Reduplication patterns in Toto, a critically endangered Tibeto-Burman language

    • Conducted fieldwork
    • Designed elicitation questionnaire for investigating reduplication
    • Studied the effects on structural priming on reduplication patterns
  • Code Switching and Code Mixing in IIT Kharagpur

    I studied the impact of Code Switching and Code Mixing on syntax and morphology in IIT KGP Campus

    • Studied Code Switching and Code Mixing for Odia, Hindi, Bengali and English
    • Transcribed into IPA using rule based G2P using Epitran
    • Glossed the data using Leipzig glossing