Niranjan Hegde is a PhD researcher in the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT MSCA doctoral network at Nebrija University in Madrid. He completed his Master’s in Language Science and Technology at Saarland University, where he worked with Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg on bilingual sentence comprehension and inhibitory control in L2 reading.

His research interests lie in psycholinguistics and computational psycholinguistics, with a focus on bilingual language processing, working memory, and cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches that connect language, cognition, and computational modeling.