PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Anindita Sahoo

Anindita Sahoo is a linguistics researcher whose 2024 study used an artificial neural network to investigate how visual perception relates to spatial language. She published early papers on Odia and South Asian passive constructions, earned a PhD on South Asian passives at IIT Delhi in 2015, and began teaching at IIT Madras in 2017. In 2025, she coauthored a paper on linguistic identity with Pratiti Palit. As of October 2026, she is an Assistant Professor at IIT Madras and affiliate faculty at WSAI.

Timeline

  1. 2010

    Odia passives at Lancaster

    In 2010, she publishes “Odia passives with ditransitives” in the LAEL-5 PG conference proceedings at Lancaster University.

  2. 2013

    A South Asian passives paper

    In 2013, she and Pritha Chandra publish “Passives in South Asian Languages: Some Typological Puzzles” in Acta Linguistica Asiatica.

  3. 2015

    A PhD on South Asian passives

    In August 2015, she defends her PhD thesis, “Passives in some South Asian Languages: A comparative investigation,” at IIT Delhi under Pritha Chandra’s supervision.

  4. 2015

    Ditransitive passives in Malayalam

    She and Pritha Chandra publish “Ditransitive Active-passives in Malayalam: A brief note” in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics in 2015.

  5. August 2017

    Teaching at IIT Madras

    In August 2017, she begins teaching at IIT Madras, with courses including Introduction to Linguistics, Business Communication and Professional Ethics.

  6. August 2024

    From Pixels to Prepositions

    In August 2024, she coauthors “From Pixels to Prepositions: Linking Visual Perception with Spatial Prepositions Far and Near” in Cognitive Computation. The study uses an artificial neural network to investigate vision and spatial prepositions. It trains a convolutional neural network to classify objects as far or near in images.

  7. 2025

    Language identity in East Midnapur

    In 2025, she and Pratiti Palit publish “Variations in Language and Its Equation with Linguistic Identity” in Dialectologia.

  8. As of October 2026

    Assistant Professor at IIT Madras

    As of October 2026, she is an Assistant Professor in IIT Madras’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and affiliate faculty at WSAI. Her interests include linguistic typology, syntax, language acquisition, pragmatics and experimental linguistics.

Career

  1. NowIIT MadrasAssistant Professor

Education

  1. 2015IIT DelhiPhD

From the biography.

  1. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Sources and credits

Photo: We have no published photo of Anindita Sahoo yet. Send us a free-licensed photo.

  1. Anindita Sahoo – Department of Humanities and Social Sciences hss.iitm.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. IIT Delhi Linguistics - Papers & presentations sites.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. IIT Madras - Profile sites.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. CNSLM 2024 - Posters sites.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. From Pixels to Prepositions: Linking Visual Perception with Spatial Prepositions Far and Near | Sciety sciety.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. VARIATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND ITS EQUATION WITH LINGUISTIC IDENTITY | Dialectologia revistes.ub.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Anindita Sahoo | Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence wsai.iitm.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Faculty | Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence wsai.iitm.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.