Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He has a strong research background in Speech analysis, Historical linguistics, and Language documentation.
His research focuses on the synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Trans-Himalayan languages spoken in the northeastern part of India. Specifically, he is interested in speech analysis and the development of speech corpora for under-resourced languages, with the ultimate goal of creating language technology for the speech communities. By accumulating enough speech data, he aims to reconstruct ancient language structures of these languages using computational models.