I'm a third year PhD student in the Linguistics Department at Rutgers University. Before coming to Rutgers, I did my undergrad in math at UCLA, where I was also a member of the Russian Flagship Program. For the overseas portion of the program, I studied Russian for a summer then later a full academic year through Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. You can see a copy of my CV here.

As a linguist, I'm interested in less studied languages, particularly Turkic languages spoken in Central Asia and Eastern Indo-Aryan languages. My theoretical interests are primarily in syntax. Currently I'm working on the nominal domain and (in)definite expressions in Magahi. I have done some P-side work as well, particularly on umlaut in Uyghur for my first Qualifying Paper supervised by Adam G. McCollum. I'm also a member of the Meaning Across Languages (MAL) lab here at Rutgers. Feel free to reach out via email at aidan.sharma@rutgers.edu!