Ph.D in Linguistics, 2021

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Thesis title: "Vowel Acoustics of Assamese Spoken in Five Geographical Locations."

Ph.D Supervisor: Prof. Priyankoo Sarmah, Dept.of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

M.A in Linguistics, 2012

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

B.A in English, 2010

Cotton College, Guwahati

H.S, 2007

Diphu Government College, Diphu

H.S.L.C, 2003

St. Agnes' High School, Haflong

1. Dihingia, L . (2023). "Phonetic representation of Assamese vowels: A review". Anvesan. Vol 16. pp.165-184. Gauhati University Press. (UGC-CARE listed)

2. Dihingia, L., Bannulmath, P., Chowdhury, A.R., Prasanna, S., Deepak, K., Sheikh, T. (2023). "Preliminary Analysis of Lambani Vowels and Vowel Classification Using Acoustic Features". In: Karpov, A., Samudravijaya, K., Deepak, K.T., Hegde, R.M., Agrawal, S.S., Prasanna, S.R.M. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14339. Springer, Cham. (SCOPUS indexed) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48312-7_16 
3. Sarmah P. & Dihingia, L (2021) "Assamese dialect identification from vowel acoustics". Data Engineering for Smart Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 238. P. Nanda et al.(eds.). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. (SCOPUS indexed) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2641-8_30
4. Dihingia, L. & Sarmah, P (2020). "Rhythm and speaking rate in Assamese". Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan. (SCOPUS indexed) https://www.isca-speech.org/archive_v0/SpeechProsody_2020/pdfs/204.pdf
5. Dihingia, L. & Sarmah, P (2017). "Vowel perception in two Assamese varieties". Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences 2017, Seoul, South Korea. (Peer-reviewed)
6. Sarmah, P., Dihingia, L. & Lalhminghlui, W (2015). "Contextual variation of tones in Mizo". Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany. (SCOPUS indexed) https://www.isca-speech.org/archive_v0/interspeech_2015/papers/i15_0983.pdf
7. Sarmah, P., Dihingia, L., & Choudhury, D. (2015). "An acoustic study of Bodo vowels". Himalayan Linguistics, 14(1). (UGC-CARE listed) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4r3713nh
8. Sarmah, P., Dihingia, L. & Reddy, N.H. (2013). "Perception of high vowels in Rabha". Proceedings of Acoustics 2013, New Delhi, India. (Peer-reviewed)

1. Resource Person, Virtual Colloquy, Topic: The Sociophonetics of Vowel Variation (April 12, 2024), Speech Lab, Dept. of HSS, IIT Delhi.

2. Resource Person, Workshop on Praat Software (September 22-23, 2023), Society for Endangered and Lesser Known Languages (SEL).

3. Resource Person, Workshop on Morphological Analysis of Low-resource Indian Languages for Technology Development (MALLTeD 2023) (July 21-22, 2023) Topic: Introduction to Linguistic Morphology and Part of Speech.

4. Resource Person, Refresher Course on Applied Linguistics & Assamese Literature (February 22, 2023), Department of Linguistics, Gauhati University.Topic: NLP and its applications for Assamese language: An overview.

5. Resource Person, Refresher Course on Translation Studies & Assamese Literature (February 11, 2023), Department of Assamese, Gauhati University. Topic: Linguistic Aspects in Machine Translation.

6. Invited speaker, Workshop on Linguistic Issues in Speech Processing Research of Under-Resourced Languages (LISPRUL 2022) (March 2 - 3, 2022) Topic: Challenges in Discovering a Phoneme Inventory for Low Resourced Languages sites.google.com/iitdh.ac.in/lisprul2022/archive

7. Resource Person, Lectures on Sociolinguistics (August 25 & 27, 2021), Dept. of English, Panskura Banamali College, West Bengal.

8. Resource Person, Workshop on Linguistic Tools (September 27, 2017), Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL) , Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar.

9. Resource Person (assisting), Workshop on Acoustic Phonetics (March 2 - 4, 2017), Dept. of Linguistics, University of Delhi.

1. September 2021- present, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Assamese, Gauhati University

2. August, 2021 - November 2021, Adjunct faculty, Dept. of HSS, IIT Dharwad

3. May, 2021 - October 2021, Guest faculty, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Delhi

4. January, 2021 - April 2021, Guest faculty, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Delhi

5. August, 2019 - December, 2020, Guest lecturer, Dept. of Assamese, Gauhati University

6. January, 2020 - June, 2020, Guest lecturer, Dept. of Assamese, Gauhati University

7. April, 2013 - April, 2016, Junior Project Fellow, IIT Guwahati

Postgraduate

1. M.A in Assamese, Semester-III

Contact languages of North-East India

Unit I: Introduction

Unit II: Language shift and language maintenance

Unit IV: Creolization

Structure of the Assamese Language

Unit I: Phonology

Unit II: Morphology

Unit III: Syntax

2. M.A in Assamese, Semester-IV

Applied Linguistics

Unit I: Computational Linguistics

Unit IV: Language teaching methods

Trends in Linguistics

Unit I: Transformational Grammar

Unit III: Semiotics

3. M.A in Linguistics, Semester-I

Phonetics-I (Introduction to Phonetics)

4. M.A in Linguistics, Semester-II

Second Language Acquisition

5. M.A in Linguistics, Semester-III

Phonetics-II (Methods in Phonetic analysis)

Undergraduate

B.Tech, Odd semesters

Introduction to Linguistics

1. One Week National level Online Faculty Development Program on Outcome Based Education and Application of Generative AI in Teaching and Research, IQAC, GU and IPSR Solutions Ltd. (April 17-24, 2024)
2. Regional Training Programme on Plagiarism Detection Software(PDS) - ShodhShuddhi. Krishna
   Kanta Handiqui Library & IQAC, Gauhati University, Guwahati (December 29, 2023).

3. One month online Faculty Induction Programme, HRDC, University of Hyderabad, India (June 01-30, 2022).

4. Workshop on Cognition and Bilingualism: Why there is debate about the cognitive advantage of being bilingual. HISPhonCog 2019, Hanyang University, Seoul (May 23, 2019).
5. Workshop on Voice User Interfaces (WVUI 2018) IIT Guwahati, India (Mar 01-03, 2018)
6. Winter School of Speech and Audio Processing 2018, IIT Guwahati, India (Jan. 19-22, 2018)
7. Workshop on The Mind Matters: Language, Cognition and Other Correlations, IIIT Guwahati, India (Mar 12, 2016)
8. Workshop on Tone and Intonation: Theory, Typology and Computation (WTI 2012), IIT Guwahati, India (Mar 7-8, 2016)
9. National Seminar cum Workshop on Translation and Assamese Literature: History and Theory, IIT Guwahati, India (Mar. 7-8, 2014)
10. Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP) 2013. IIT Guwahati, India (Dec. 13-14, 2013)

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-1210-8524

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=dL-k61gAAAAJ

SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57140729800 

Contact:

Leena Dihingia

Dept. of Assamese

New Academic Building

Gauhati University

Guwahati-781014

Assam, India

Phone: +91 88767 87943

Email: leenadihingia@gmail.com, leena@gauhati.ac.in

Website: Leena Dihingia

1. External Evaluator, Gunotsav 2022
2. Qualified UGC-National Eligibility Test for Lecturership in Linguistics (September, 2012)
3. Student organizer, Graduate Research Meet 2015, (October 28-30, 2015), Dept. of HSS, IIT Guwahati.
4. Student organizer, Himalayan Languages Symposium, (June 8-10, 2016), IIT Guwahati.
5. Student organizer, 38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-38),(November 10-12, 2016), IIT Guwahati.
6. Volunteered as speech data transcriber in the Gutob language documentation project, 2018, under Living Tongues Institute of Endangered Languages.
7. Managed lab stocks at Phonetics and Phonology lab at IIT Guwahati and took care of equipment purchase.

1. Member, Departmental Quality Assurance Cell, Department of Assamese, Gauhati University

2. Member, NEP Working Group for University-level MOOCs, Gauhati University.