About
Dr. Somdev Kar is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, and his MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hyderabad. Prior to joining IIT Ropar, he worked at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, as a research associate and at CIIL, Mysore, as a Fellow, and later as a visiting faculty at Qatar University, Qatar. His research interests lie in the fields of Phonetics and Phonology (Optimality Theory), Distributed Morphology, Evolutionary Linguistics, and NLP. He published a book and several research articles in internationally acclaimed journals.
Education
PhD (Linguistics), University of Tübingen, Germany, 2009
MA (Applied Linguistics), University of Hyderabad, India, 2004
BA (Honours in Linguistics), University of Calcutta, India, 2002
