About Me
Cognitive Science Research Intern and Interpretive social science student
What I'm Doing
I'm currently a research intern studying how trilingual people manage three languages in their heads. Most of the research on multilingualism focuses on people who speak two languages, but here in Nepal, lots of people grow up with three (Nepali, English, and Newari), which seems to work differently.
I'm also teaching myself computational modeling because I keep running into questions that seem like they need computational approaches to understand properly. It's a steep learning curve, but fascinating to see how modeling changes the way you think about problems.
How I Currently Think About Research
I started out thinking there should be one 'right' way to do research, but working across different domains taught me that different types of questions genuinely need different approaches. I've learned to hold multiple methodological frameworks simultaneously without falling into relativism - critical realist synthesis gives me the ontological foundation to do this coherently.
Current Work
Research Internship
Studying trilingual cognitive control - how people manage three languages (Nepali, English, Newari) in their heads. Most research focuses on bilingualism, but trilingual processing seems to work differently.
Diploma Project
Writing about what it's like doing cognitive science research in Nepal. How do cultural contexts and institutional differences affect how research actually gets done?
Self-Teaching
Learning computational modeling and complex systems approaches because I keep hitting questions that seem to need these tools to understand properly.