Dr. Arpita Bose is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading. She is a clinically trained Speech-Language Therapist with research training in aphasia and other neurogenic disorders from the University of Toronto and University of Windsor, Canada. She leads a diverse, inter-disciplinary and multi-method research programme focusing both on theoretical and clinical aspects of language production in acquired neurological disorders. Her primary research focus is on extending the theoretical understanding of the interplay between cognitive, linguistic and speech motor processes during language production in monolingual and bilingual populations. For more information, please visit Dr. Arpita Bose's website.

Dr. Sidharth Ranjan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. His research lies at the intersection of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and machine learning. He received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where he investigated linguistic structures and syntactic preferences using corpus-based and behavioural approaches, and developed cognitively motivated computational models to explain comprehension and production processes in Hindi. He has also held a postdoctoral position at the University of Stuttgart, where his research focused on cross-linguistic generalization and linguistic typology. For more information, please visit Dr. Sidharth Ranjan’s webpage.

Prof. Shruti Sircar is a Professor of Linguistics at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her research focuses on language acquisition in the first and second language in children and adults, language processing and reading and spelling development in Indian languages in typically and atypically developing learners. She conducts experimental research in language acquisition, linguistics, and the language-cognition interface. She received her PhD from Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in 2002 and joined the Department of Methods as Lecturer in 2002. Since 2008, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics and Contemporary English, and presently a Professor in the Department. For more information, please visit Prof. Shruti Sircar webpage.

Dr. Ark Verma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research spans cognitive science, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, visual word recognition in Hindi and Indian languages, and the lateralization of cognitive functions. He received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Ghent University, where his work focused on hemispheric asymmetries and visual half-field paradigms. His broader research interests also include executive control, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness studies. For more information, please visit Dr. Ark Verma’s webpage.