Ashwini Vaidya

Ashwini Vaidya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi, also affiliated with the Cognitive Science MSc program. Their research focuses on computational lexical semantics, argument structure, and lexical access, with a special emphasis on Indian subcontinent languages like Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, and Malayalam. Methodologies include both computational and experimental approaches.

Recent work includes studies on Hindi ergative marking and light verb constructions, with papers accepted at Glossa Psycholinguistics and SCiL 2025. Upcoming talks include a presentation at EEL 2025 in June 2025. Their team explores NLP dataset design and evaluation, particularly for under-resourced languages.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned. Advising activities involve current students (names unspecified), and grants are not detailed in the provided text. Research collaborations likely exist through IIT Delhi’s interdisciplinary environment.