Biography I was born and grew up in New Delhi, and did my schooling at St. Columba's School. Soon after finishing high school, I went into kidney failure; I received a kidney transplant from my father in 1985. The transplant failed in 2011, and I have been on hemodialysis since then.
Before moving to the US and then Germany, we lived in Japan for a total of five years, in Minoo, Osaka prefecture, and Nishinomiya, Hyogo prefecture. At the bottom of the page are some of the visual traces from my life over the years, mostly but not all from our time in Japan.
I used to be a musician (violin and guitar; I own a superb Hungarian-made concert violin which I don't play any more). Currently, I play a 2023 Sakurai Kohno 63 cm guitar (Model: Special), and an Armin Hanika Natural Torres 63 cm. A recent guitar recording (recorded with the Hanika): Milonga "Floreos et Preludio Criollo", by Juan Buscaglia.
Two other big interests I have outside of academia are Iaido, and Shaolin Qi Gong.
My BA (Honours) was in Japanese (JNU, India), and I have Masters degrees in Linguistics (JNU, India), Computer and Information Science (Ohio State, USA), and Statistics (Sheffield, UK). I have a PhD in Linguistics (2002) from Ohio State.
Cool fact: My academic geneology (as far as I could reconstruct it) goes all the way back to a German scientist from Berlin: Richard Lewis (my PhD advisor) ← Allen Newell ← Herb Simon ← Henry Schultz← Henry Moore ← Simon Newcomb, John Bates Clark ← Benjamin Pierce, Karl Knies ← Nathaniel Bowditch, Bruno Hildebrandt ← Maximilian Duncker.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)