{"id":17864,"date":"2026-03-16T06:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17864"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:58:06","slug":"interview-with-an-undergraduate-linguistics-alum-mit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/03\/16\/interview-with-an-undergraduate-linguistics-alum-mit-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with an undergraduate Linguistics alum (MIT News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>&#8220;Rujul Gandhi graduated from MIT in 2022, where she was a double major in Linguistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She\u0092s currently researching speech at Harvard University, where she\u0092s pursuing doctoral study in Speech &amp; Hearing Bioscience. &#8216;I\u0092m interested in the neural computations that underlie speech processing and perception,&#8217; she says.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">[&#8230;]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>&#8220;Was there a particular class you took or connection you made in SHASS that had a memorable impact?<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>&#8220;I really enjoyed taking 24.909 (Field Methods in Linguistics) with <a href=\"https:\/\/abdulrazaksulemana.wordpress.com\">Abdul-Razak Sulemana<\/a>.&#8221; (PhD 2021)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From a great interview with Rujul by MIT News at this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/shass.mit.edu\/people\/rujul-gandhi-22\/\">https:\/\/shass.mit.edu\/people\/rujul-gandhi-22\/\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rujul Gandhi graduated from MIT in 2022, where she was a double major in Linguistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She\u0092s currently researching speech at Harvard University, where she\u0092s pursuing doctoral study in Speech &amp; Hearing Bioscience. &#8216;I\u0092m interested in the neural computations that underlie speech processing and perception,&#8217; she says. [&#8230;] &#8220;Was there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17866,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864\/revisions\/17866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}