Contact:
mudafiazafar1232gmail.com
I recently completed my PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, with the supervision of Samar Husain (PhD Advisor). My research focused on language processing, examining how humans plan and structure speech in real time. Through a combination of psycholinguistic experimentation and large-scale corpus analysis, I explored how grammatical structure and cognitive constraints shape language production in SOV languages such as Hindi.
I currently work at ASAPP as part of the Language Technology team, where I contribute to GenerativeAgent, an LLM-powered conversational AI that automates complex customer support interactions. My work focuses on evaluating performance, optimizing behavior, and ensuring the AI works effectively in real-world applications.
August 2025: New paper "IIT Delhi Dialogue Corpus: A quantitative analysis of a spoken corpus of Hindi" accepted at Language Resources and Evaluation. [Link to Paper]
July 2025: Successfully defended my thesis.
March 2025: I submitted my thesis to IIT Delhi for the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
June 2024: I was awarded the Gibson-Fedorenko 2024 HSP Young Scholars Award for my talk 'The Role of Locality and Formulation Ease during Sentence Production'. (USD 1000). [Link to the Talk]
May 2024: I was awarded the Research Excellence Travel Award by IIT Delhi. (INR 200000).